The Daily Telegraph is the main conservative newspaper in Britain - at least that is how it presents itself and some of its content really is conservative, but often it follows the line of the left (the doctrines that Telegraph journalists will have been taught in school, including most private schools, and at university). Yesterday's print edition (which I read on a long journey from Norther...

Daily Telegraph, 12 December 2008: “Recession pulls hemlines down“. Daily Telegraph, 6 March 2009: “Hemlines rise during economic downturns”. But perhaps it is neither up nor down? Daily Telegraph, 5 February 2009: “the relationship between fashion and the economy is often more subtly complex than that”. Never let it be said the Daily Telegraph doesn’t cov...

The Daily Telegraph's Philip Johnston is one of my favourite columnists and his well-researched, analytical pieces are always well worth reading. In today's Telegraph, he turns his attention to whether or not David Cameron has taken the Conservative Party to...

When the Daily Telegraph ran their story that ‘green taxes’ on driving and flying would be raised to fund a marriage tax break if the Tories won the general election, Conservative MPs cried foul. Nadine Dorries, Conservative MP for Mid Bedfordshire, accused The Telegraph of deceit, writing on Twitter: “George Osborne told the Telegraph that

The Daily Telegraph today has its regular monthly YouGov poll. They’ve headlined their report: Immigration is top issue for both Labour and Tory voters, YouGov poll shows They go on to say: A Daily Telegraph/YouGov survey shows that it is the top concern that people want an incoming Conservative government to deal with. Problem is, that isn’t really what

Why on earth would the Daily Telegraph’s owners, the Barclay brothers, shut down Tory MP Nadine Dorries’ blog just because she questioned their motives in exposing the Parliamentary expenses scandal? Ms Dorries has warned that some of the targets of the Telegraph witch-hunt are on the verge of suicide. I can well believe it. That doesn’t invalidate the investigation but there is ...

Upon hearing of the ill treatment of Guido Fawkes at the hands of The Daily Telegraph, Cranmer posted this today upon Janet Daley’s blog. It has been deleted, but this more or less as he remembers it: It is no surprise to learn that The Daily Telegraph stands accused of deception and betrayal. Its standards have declined over recent years, for the Barclay brothers know little and care even l...

Following on from my earlier post, the Press Gazette says:Journalists from rival newspapers believe the Daily Telegraph paid £150,000 for data revealing the full details of the expenses claims of cabinet ministers.This was the figure doing the rounds at the journalists' bar in the House of Commons last night.There were also suggestions that because the Telegraph apparently had access to the "

Sir John Major yesterday in the Daily Telegraph floated the idea that the Tory / Liberal coalition should continue after the next general election, and could become a permanent merger. The interesting aspect of the Coalition is that, as the Telegraph observes Some Tory MPs are privately unhappy with the coalition agreement, feeling it dilutes traditional Tory policies

Just had a missed call from the Daily Telegraph. When I rang back the recorded message said "You've been called by the Daily Telegraph. We are sorry to have missed you. There is nothing to worry about. We will endeavour to call you some other time. Goodbye." Hopefully it was just a marketing call.