There was a time when banter would have gone down like an unsubsidised pint of bitter in the Houses of Parliament, but since the dawn of social media an increasing amount of MPs have taken to social media repartee as a means of polishing their public persona. And why not? ...
Of all the earth’s gifts, there are few foods that aren’t instantly enhanced by the addition of sesame. So it’s hardly surprising that the prawn toast at duck duck goose, with its thick layer of prawn mousse and vaster area to be coated with toasted sesame seeds, is so implausibly ...
America is not the world. And how on earth did they decide that our British comfort food includes MINCE ON TOAST? The final straw should really have come when American ‘grocery store’ Trader Joe’s claimed to have invented what’s best known here as a sausage roll. While the original concept ...
I was driving through Andalucía on Sunday, from Malaga to Ronda, meandering along the A-366 with a familiar sound in my ears; an England collapse. The only unusual thing it seems, was the setting. The breath taking, if arid, sights of the Parque Natural Sierra de las Nieves and its ...
An aristocrat accused of offering £,5000 to "accidentally" run over leading Brexit challenger Gina Miller in a series of Facebook post, a court heard (today). Rhodri Philipps, the 4th Viscount St Davids, 50, added she was a "bloody troublesome first generation immigrant" who should be sent back to her "stinking ...
A car owner selling his £550 Skoda on Auto Trader has been bombarded by prank buyers posing as A-list celebrities. Johnny Delaney, 25, has been inundated with messages claiming to be from Lewis Hamilton, Matt Le Blanc, Olly Murs, Brian May and even Donald Trump. Enquiries have also come ...
It is not a rule of journalism but it should be. Writing anything at all about the various conflicts in the Middle East, with all their shifts and shapes and connected parts moving like the patterns in a kaleidoscope tube with absolutely none of the beauty, invites the fate of ...
One year after originally visiting, Launceston Place (D&D’s restaurant on the Kensington street of the same name) has changed immeasurably. Previously, Chef Raphael Francois’s menu promised so much, but failed to constantly deliver. Yes, the skill was there, but the chef’s passion for cooking, if any, wasn’t presented in the dining ...
By James Fox It's ten years since Apple first released the iPhone, which was to become the most successful products from the most profitable tech company ever. For many, including James Titcomb at the Telegraph, it will be a cause for reminiscing about how much harder it was to navigate ...