Thursday 23 October 2014

Comment, Analysis and Blogs

The best comment, analysis and blogs from The Telegraph including Charles Moore, Peter Oborne, Boris Johnson, Dan Hodges, Fraser Nelson and Janet Daley

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At this rate the rise of Ukip will keep Britain in the EU

For all the cocky Ukip rhetoric about a people's army, the party appeals to nothing like a majority, says Iain Martin

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Expert's view of The Apprentice: The sweet smell of success?

This year's candidates with Lord Sugar, Karen Brady and Nick Hewer

In the third of a series of blogs reviewing this season of The Apprentice, a recruitment expert gives his views on how the contestants fared and what lessons can be learned from their mistakes

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Westminster may be running scared of Ukip - but the British people aren't

The electorate are on to Ukip and Nigel Farage now, says Dan Hodges. They have the new nasty party pegged

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Antony Horowitz's Sherlock Holmes novel Moriarty can only fall flat

Moriarty: Sherlock Holmes meets his nemesis. Benedict Cumberbatch as Holmes and Andrew Scott as Moriarty in the BBC's Sherlock

Modern 're-interpretations' of classic works such as Sherlock Holmes and PG Wodehouse miss the point: the originals are products of their time and writers, says Harry Mount

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The Apprentice archetypes: why do these awful people keep turning up on our TV screens?

If Sir Alan Sugar's candidates were all competent, the show wouldn't be worth watching, says Tim Stanley

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Oh, Bridget! whatever happened to your face?

Renee Zellweger pictured, left, at the Elle Women in Hollywood Awards and in February 2013

Hollywood star Renée Zellweger shocked fans with her appearance this week. Victoria Lambert examines her new look

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Brave as lions but poorly led – the British heroes of Helmand

3rd Bn The Parachute Regiment mount an operation by chinook helicopter in the Mizan district of Zabul in southern Afghanistan

Leaving Afghanistan may mark the moment we lost our influence as a global military power, suggests Peter Oborne

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'Why a drop in the core GCSE pass rate is a good thing'

Failing secondary schools placed on list of shame

Everyone needs to be sure that the qualifications which young people study are of the highest possible quality, says Nick Gibb

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Will we ever see twerking on Strictly Come Dancing?

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Another black day for Reeva and all women

Reeva Steenkamp poses on set during the shooting of the reality show Tropika Island of Treasure which premieres on state television

On the day that Oscar Pistorius is released from jail, anyone who minds that abusers can still get away with murder should wear black, says Allison Pearson

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Free the factory-farmed one million

The deal was agreed by the two countries during a three-day trade visit by David Cameron to China

A new campaign aims to make 'pig business' more humane, writes Geoffrey Lean

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Drones are going to be a part of your day-to-day life very soon. And you'll be bored stiff by them

We've become so overexposed to technology that the extraordinary is now very, very ordinary, says Willard Foxton

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Paris Opera stars wrong to kick out veiled woman

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From New York to Paris, opera has much to teach us about the Middle East, says Rupert Christiansen

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If over-55s sell off their big homes, the heart of family life will be lost

Bullying older people into selling their homes will shatter the continuity and sense of the personal past that is the basis of family life, argues Janet Daley

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Prime Minister's Questions: instant verdict

Ed Miliband and David Cameron face each other at Prime Minister's Questions

David Cameron and Ed Miliband go toe-to-toe in their weekly bout. James Kirkup scores the fight

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Vile racism or understandable worries? Labour needs to get its story straight on Ukip

Fast food fan Chuka Umunna is hungry for a change in how Britain does business

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Alvin Stardust: the great reinventor

Music

Alvin Stardust, who has died aged 72, changed his image to have the hit song My Coo Ca Choo and reinvented himself for a career in TV and theatre

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Mums should salute Osborne, dad-of-two

Well done, George Osborne for saying what other ministers have been too shy to admit: the Treasury needs to help mothers go to work, writes James Kirkup

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Ottawa shooting: Isil-inspired lone-wolf attacks are a threat everywhere in the West

Britain and other Western capitals can expect heightened security measures and greater threat of terror as the Isil threat gathers, writes Con Coughlin

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