As the European elections approach, it's time to stop the politics of...
In the current climate, a suggestion for a more equal, democratic EU is branded a 'Marxist manifesto for a European superstate' In the context of the increasingly shrill debate around migration and...
View ArticleTalking Horses: Latest racing news and best bets for Southwell and Exeter
Win tickets for Doncaster Sky Bet Chase day in our weekly tipping competition *11.50am Qipco will enjoy branding in new move for Royal Ascot * *Tony Paley: *Qipco have announced a major deal with Ascot...
View ArticlePhil Mickelson: Ryder Cup needs a United States success this year
• United States need Gleneagles victory to reverse trend • Open champion believes new driver can improve his game The Open champion Phil Mickelson has suggested a United States victory in this year's...
View ArticleFTSE lifted as City speculates on BSkyB bid and Diageo move for Beam
Leading shares hit new two and a half month high despite worries about Fed moves On a day when the market was searching for direction, things were livened up by a spate of merger speculation. After the...
View ArticleFrançois Hollande refuses to answer questions about his personal life
French president stays off subject of his affair with an actor, Julie Gayet, but says he will not be further tightening privacy laws François Hollande faced the French and international press on...
View ArticleHollande's private life is the least of his problems | Simon Jenkins
The president should be regretting not his personal follies but the failure of the French economic model Of course it matters. A president is not just a professional figure. He is a head of state,...
View ArticleFrance: the new sick man of Europe
François Hollande offers little to assuage the fears of those who think France is the most vulnerable country in the eurozone More Harold Wilson than Margaret Thatcher. A social contract rather than...
View Article1941: The Year That Keeps Returning by Slavko Goldstein – review
This remarkable book about Yugoslavia gives genocide a human face On 6 April 1941, Hitler's armies marched into Yugoslavia, responding to a military coup in which Serbian officers had overthrown a...
View ArticleShale gas could meet 6pc of European demand by 2035, BP predicts
Oil major says shale gas in Europe to remain "very marginal", with dependency on imports of gas to increase to 84pc Reported by Telegraph.co.uk 9 hours ago.
View ArticleWelfare spending: how Britain outstrips Europe
British spending on welfare outstrips European neighbours, while other major powers cut back, according to figures from the OECD Reported by Telegraph.co.uk 8 hours ago.
View ArticleGraphic: Britain outstrips Europe on welfare spending
British spending on welfare outstrips European neighbours, while other major powers cut back. Reported by Telegraph.co.uk 9 hours ago.
View ArticleSergio García on that Tiger Woods row: 'I can't apologise any more'
• Spaniard addresses US fans' heckling over 'fried chicken' jibe • 'I have apologised and re-apologised, so I think it is all over' It may be a new year but Sergio García is unable to escape old...
View ArticleYoung social entrepreneurs benefit from "Yunus effect" in Malaysia
Social enterprise in Malaysia is a challenge, but the Global Social Business Summit 2013 shows it has a promising future says Clare Walker, Deputy Director of Programmes at the British Council In...
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Motorcyclist on round-the-world trip takes bike 16,000 miles through South...
Martin Williams, 53, left his home in Australia six months ago only for his 650cc Kawasaki machine to be stolen from the driveway of his relatives' home in Wales. Reported by MailOnline 8 hours ago.
View ArticleGM warns restructuring charges will double
The impact on profits in the year ahead of Europe closures outweighs news of first dividend payment since 2009, prompting shares to dive in New York Reported by FT.com 8 hours ago.
View ArticleEurope’s trading rules: compromised
Opportunities to drive market efficiency and general investor safeguards have been lost to get an expedient deal Reported by FT.com 7 hours ago.
View ArticleRoland Young: 'I always felt like a complete island unto myself'
The jazz clarinettist turned club kid was once forgotten. But two reissues of classic albums from the 1970s may change that In 1980, Roland Young, a classically trained jazz clarinettist, was living in...
View ArticleV&A reveals details of how baroque and rococo galleries will be transformed
Ceilings will be raised and light allowed into Europe 1600-1800 rooms in £12.5m redesign at London museum They contain some of the objects most full of joie de vivre in the V&A's vast collection,...
View ArticleEU curb on food speculation gets qualified welcome from activists
Limits put on use of financial instruments linked to agricultural commodities, which have been blamed for food price rises Development activists have given a guarded welcome to moves by the European...
View ArticleArchduke Franz Ferdinand descendant: don't blame us for first world war
Karl Habsburg-Lothringen says major powers were ready for war anyway when heir to Habsburg empire was assassinated A descendant of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination in Sarajevo...
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