Letters: Too many licence-fee payers still get too little in return from the BBC
Plus: Biden’s good work; characterful cars; the right Tory leader; pulpit preaching; the perils of a cashless society; and boozy fruit salad
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Plus: Biden’s good work; characterful cars; the right Tory leader; pulpit preaching; the perils of a cashless society; and boozy fruit salad
Plus: Overcrowded prisons; saluting Gareth Southgate; dour housing; medicines for pets; secretive shorthand; and why beards are the new ties
Plus: England in the final; relaxing visits to Venice; Miliband’s war on locals; Thames Water spills; and restoring postboxes
Plus: Solar farm folly; prison officer shortages; the state of the Navy; the end of mail delivered by rail; and spelling reform
Plus: Biden’s choice; the next Tory leader; a dog in No10; wartime larders; and a good reason to learn the bagpipes
Plus: The Tory divide; listening to voters on immigration; jobs for Lords; the BBC’s Wimbledon coverage; and Victorian chocolate
Plus: Labour’s housing pledge; alternatives to first-past-the-post; ringing the bell on chemotherapy; and puddings worth the thorns
Telegraph readers on Tory neglect of traditional supporters, the rise of Reform, and Labour’s failure to capture the nation’s imagination
Telegraph readers on Starmer’s landslide, the Tories’ (many) wrong turns, Nigel Farage in Parliament and new talent for ‘I’m a Celebrity’
Plus: Blame culture; the cancer bell; rogue SUV drivers; a fair museum fee; historic cake; and escaping in style
Plus: A plan for pubs; Southgate’s swans; regimental reggae; PoW common ground; and keeping museums free to enter
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: Backward banking; England’s last-minute magic; museum entry fees; lifelong friendship with a German PoW; and bee-friendly plants
Plus: Jill Biden’s error; Nigel Farage and the BBC; banks complicit in the cashless drive; Churchill and PoWs; and warmed by Coldplay
Plus: America’s presidential candidates; Sue Barker at the BBC; private schools’ future; priorities at the V&A; and a toothless innings
Plus: Tory pleading; elusive £1 coins; silent summer skies; worthwhile apps; serenaded by Italian PoWs; and the island where tractors rule
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