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Plus: Biden’s choice; the next Tory leader; a dog in No10; wartime larders; and a good reason to learn the bagpipes
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Plus: Biden’s choice; the next Tory leader; a dog in No10; wartime larders; and a good reason to learn the bagpipes
From National Service to VAT on school fees, plus an election drinking game – your views on what mattered most in the battle for No 10
Plus: Elusive state school places; Sir Keir Starmer’s working day; seagull deterrents; Land Rover scourge; and Wimbledon hairstyles
By turns surprising, funny and touching, a series of letters from Telegraph readers has shed light on a little-known aspect of post-war life
Plus: David Tennant’s trans rant; PoWs in the garden; same-sex blessings; MPs’ moral compass; and how not to drink beer in Germany
Plus: England at the Euros; replacing the Lords; hospitality towards German PoWs; hectoring Tube posters; and a raging gull
Plus: Exit Assange; the BMA and Israel; feeding wild animals; Labour’s NHS plan; and returning the dogs of war
Plus: Scrapping the Lords; Farage’s hollow history; home-schooling; hungry PoWs; and banking glass bottles
Plus: The Tories’ lack of fresh ideas; Brexit and EU bottle caps; badgers running wild; my father the PoW; and where have the swallows gone?
Plus: China’s rights abuses; how to fix salmon farming; snow at the cricket; reporting rail hazards; and beards at Trooping the Colour
Plus: HMRC howlers; Labour and badgers; Southgate’s struggles; Brahms for the soul; and drinks with Donald Sutherland
Plus: How incompetent Britain is failing cancer patients; Just Stop Oil vandals; a French cinema classic; and fixing the fridge
Plus: Turning off oil and gas; inspirational princess; the wit of Harold Wilson; policing animals; and Britain’s unloved pillar boxes
Plus: the human costs of lockdown; punitive stamp duty; defining ‘working people’; Nigel Farage’s fanbase; and marmalade droppers
Plus: Schools in peril; Americans for Trump; salmon farming; Israel’s rescue mission; overgrown road signs; and brilliant beouf
Plus: elusive dentists; microchips for pets; Labour’s hot air; the pitfalls of veganism; and the king of literary comedy
Plus: The new centre-Right; how ugly houses get built; the case for veganism; toothbrushing in schools; and Martin Amis’s finest book
Plus: Positive green policies; waiting for probate; slapdash housebuilding; and a dangerously sweet tooth
Your tales of silent heroes, Mulberry harbour modelling, shark-mouthed ships and tea with General Patton
Plus: Nigel Farage’s goal; ending cruelty in food production; Labour’s schools plan; the wisdom of Michael Mosley; and gaudy parakeets