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Donald Trump isn’t America’s saviour. His strategic carelessness threatens the free world

The Republican is more than ever a master of political theatre, but there are alarming signs behind the spectacle

Charles Moore 19 Jul 2024, 6:41pm

Camilla Tominey

The Daily T: ‘I shouldn’t be here’ - Trump’s remarkable convention speech

Allison Pearson

From pubs to palaces, the nation expected heartbreak from England – instead we got sheer joy

Allister Heath

The Tories betrayed Britain – and too many still refuse to admit it

Fraser Nelson

Starmer may get his EU ‘reset’, but the return of Trump would reveal its limits

Janet Daley

Dangerous, stultifying myths have infested our entire political class

Nick Timothy

Britain must be honest – political violence is normal here too

Philip Johnston

Fetish for endless new laws is turning us into pliant servants of the Big State

Charles Moore

Donald Trump isn’t America’s saviour. His strategic carelessness threatens the free world

Juliet Samuel

Universities can cancel your degree for wrongthink – and there’s no real right to appeal

Madeline Grant

The monarch was in the Lords, but in the Commons, King Keir the Smug began his reign

Sherelle Jacobs

Like it or not, Trumpism is the future of the Right across the declining West

Daniel Hannan

Don’t oppose for opposition’s sake: What the next Conservative leader must do

Bryony Gordon

Baby Reindeer has united both sides of the culture war

Netflix’s dark comedy has done what no politician can in our divided times – bring Left and Right together

Bryony Gordon
Of course Daniel Radcliffe doesn’t agree with JK Rowling, a woman old enough to be his mother

Bryony Gordon
They’ve tackled racism and homophobia – it’s time football took on misogyny

Bryony Gordon
Getting rid of sick notes isn’t the answer to our mental health crisis

Bryony Gordon

Celia Walden

Noel Gallagher is right – virtue signallers don’t belong at festivals

The flags and Banksy’s migrant dinghy at Glastonbury are nothing more than gimmicks that will never do anything meaningful to stop war

Celia Walden
If we don’t ban smartphones in schools we’ll be on the wrong side of history

Celia Walden
Breathing tips for audiences is yet more cynical virtue signalling from theatres

Celia Walden
Weight-loss drugs are not the answer to Britain’s obesity problem

Celia Walden

Suzanne Moore

Wes Streeting will suffer unhinged abuse simply for protecting children

Conspiracy theories and blind ideology are no match for cold hard facts on the damage puberty blockers can do to young bodies

Suzanne Moore
My top 10 ways to save the Tory party – for starters, ignore Reform

The Conservatives shouldn’t wallow in defeat but embrace a new beginning. Here’s how they can make their comeback

Suzanne Moore

Michael Deacon

GPs have no right to lecture their patients about climate change

I appreciate their concerns, but I’d rather be informed about my own ailments than the planet’s

Michael Deacon 18 Jul 2024, 7:00am

Jemima Lewis

Rats rule our cities. We’ve just adapted to live alongside them

Sorry, Eric Adams, rats won’t be put off by wheelie bins. Vermin are the real city slickers

Jemima Lewis
Are we really going to drug children not to be so fat?

Jemima Lewis
Art attacks leave law and order in tatters

Jemima Lewis
The internet is colonising our brains, from the Amazon to Acton

Jemima Lewis

Zoe Strimpel

A washout of a summer, great! That is what motherhood has done to me

Pregnancy and infant care have made me despise heat

Zoe Strimpel
I’m fed up with the ‘grownups’ – Rory Stewart is the worst of the tribe

Zoe Strimpel
Visitors to Germany are shocked at how far the country has fallen

Zoe Strimpel
Who can now stop Trump? It’s not Kamala, but there is a woman who can

Zoe Strimpel

Tom Welsh

The Tories should stop treating London as if it’s a permanently Left-wing city

Many Conservatives see political benefit in actively levelling the capital down

Tom Welsh
Persecution of motorists could soon make driving an elite pursuit

One London council's planned reform of parking permits offers a worrying glimpse into the future

Tom Welsh

Tom Harris

The myth that Sturgeon had a good pandemic has finally been shattered

Dia Chakravarty

The ‘anti-racists’ want me to hate Britain

Simon Heffer

At last, the revised Pevsner is complete – now, let’s start over again

Norman Tebbit

Is eventual Irish unification now inevitable?

Jane Shilling

The Downing Street pet will be Keir Starmer’s hardest choice

Tim Stanley

Roll up, roll up! Wales needs a new flash-in-the-pan leader… twits need not apply

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Trump trades: short Europe, short oil, short humanity – and brace for a deflationary bust

The steep price of a Republican victory will fall particularly heavily upon Ukraine and Taiwan

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Rachel Reeves must go big and rein in the OBR

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Just Stop Oil was right about BP all along

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
France has ended up with a socio-political Frankenstein

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Jeremy Warner

The insanity of Labour’s electric car plan is now too glaring to ignore

Britain now faces the very real prospect of becoming a dumping ground for cheap Chinese EVs

Jeremy Warner
There is only one way to reform inheritance tax

Jeremy Warner
Labour’s feel-good factor won’t last long if Ed Miliband has anything to do with it

Jeremy Warner
Labour’s honeymoon period will be short-lived

Jeremy Warner

Boris Johnson

Our support for Israel is as important as that for Ukraine

We are now battling for the same values and the same ideals, against the same anti-democratic and terroristic forces
The Commonwealth gives Britain a boost

The invisible threads which bind our family of nations are of immense practical value for trade
We cannot go on like this. The West must end its dependence on Vladimir Putin

Writing exclusively for the Telegraph, PM says Russian leader has exploited our need for his oil and gas, but now we must take back control
We are injecting funds to restore Britain’s status as a scientific superpower

Had it not been for our scientists, we would not now be able to enjoy the most basic human freedoms
Strengthening the sinews of our transport network will make the road to recovery smoother

A segmented, regional approach has left us with needless bottlenecks and endless delays, but a new strategy will get us back up to speed
We are still fighting this devilish virus, but this New Year really is one of change and hope

In the last few days of 2020, two big things suddenly went right. A great new deal with our European friends and a new vaccine against Covid

Con Coughlin

Donald Trump might just save Britain from itself

Judith Woods

I won’t be bullied into stipulating my pronouns – even if I could get fired for it

Matthew Lynn

IT meltdown shows how horrifyingly exposed we are to total economic collapse

Liam Halligan

Labour needs a growth unicorn to break the spell of stagnation

Asa Bennett

It is a credit to Global Britain that Liam Fox's WTO candidacy has got this far

Christopher Howse

Gambling should be banned – and I have the ideal pastime to replace it