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Next year will be even worse for Biden and the West

President Biden has overseen a calamitous erosion of the West's influence in 2021. The headwinds will only grow stronger in 2022

Con Coughlin
We are heading for a face off between real world data and Sage modelling

Now that the government has refused to call a lockdown, SAGE scenarios can be measured against the real-world outcomes

Ross Clark
Nicola Sturgeon's Brexit gamble has failed. Now she has nowhere to go

Brexit was supposed to transform the debate on independence, yet two years on most Scots have little enthusiasm for rejoining the EU

Tom Harris
'The NHS is not beyond reproach': Sherelle Jacobs responds to readers on omicron restrictions

Sherelle Jacobs
The omicron shutdown is a serious threat to our waistlines

Naveed Sattar
Which of the Tories will speak for liberty?

Kate Andrews
Sturgeon and Drakeford are drunk on power

Jamie Blackett

Our columnists

Charles Moore

The real reason David Frost's exit should worry Boris
This is not the end of Boris Johnson, if he stops kowtowing to the interests of the Blob

Allison Pearson

My cheering Christmas message? It's time for humanity to prevail over scientists
Rose and Giovanni show why politically correct television doesn't have to be forced

Fraser Nelson

I tackled a Sage Covid modeller on Twitter and it was quite the revelation
Boris Johnson's embrace of the Big Brother state goes well beyond Covid

Sherelle Jacobs

'The NHS is not beyond reproach': Sherelle Jacobs responds to readers on omicron restrictions
A conspiracy of silence has left us trapped in permanent Covid fear

Allister Heath

Boris is dooming Britain to a dismal cycle of never-ending lockdowns
Boris Johnson may not recover from this double Covid catastrophe

Juliet Samuel

The last champion of the old City of London has hung up his pinstripes
They may not realise it, but the lockdown sceptics have won the omicron war

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Europe's energy crisis is fast turning into a political and strategic disaster
Have we talked ourselves into an unnecessary crisis? The markets think so

Janet Daley

Without an enemy to fight, the self-loathing West has turned on itself
Defeat in North Shropshire marks a turning point for chaotic Boris Johnson

Nick Timothy

Frost was right about Northern Ireland but wrong about Britain's Brexit future
A reputation as 'the Selfish Party' spells electoral doom for the Tories

Madeline Grant

A new case for Christianity is rising from New Atheism's ashes
Is the extraterrestrial Chris Whitty writing his own policy on omicron? The truth is out there...

Philip Johnston

I'm fed up with the unvaccinated rump who risk pushing us back into lockdown
Britain doesn't need a foreign court to uphold its ancient liberties

Tim Stanley

Prepare for a very long – and indecisive – Christmas
An inevitable lockdown means a bleak midwinter and an unhappy new year

Cartoons 2021

Telegraph cartoons – December 2021

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Ministers must reject further Covid lockdowns

The new data demonstrate that we can live with omicron and that the Cabinet was right to push back against tougher measures over Christmas

Telegraph View

22 Dec 2021, 10:00pm
Boris Johnson made the right decision in saving Christmas from another lockdown

Telegraph View

21 Dec 2021, 10:00pm
We must stop the perpetual spiral of restrictions

Telegraph View

21 Dec 2021, 6:00am
Frost's departure leaves a full break with the EU in the balance

Telegraph View

20 Dec 2021, 9:00am

Letters to the Editor

Letters: People have the right to refuse a jab – but they also have a responsibility to others

By Letters to the Editor 23 Dec 2021, 12:02am
Letters: Government caught between those isolated by fear and those who can't bear Covid regulations

By Letters to the Editor 22 Dec 2021, 12:01am
Letters: Hospital readiness and vaccination capacity could have been prepared much, much sooner

By Letters to the Editor 21 Dec 2021, 12:01am
Letters: Lord Frost's resignation is a blow to the many Conservatives whose opinions he represents

By Letters to the Editor 20 Dec 2021, 12:02am

Peterborough

Our weekly Peterborough diary column - published every Friday at 7pm - reveals what's really going on in Westminster and beyond

Rejected by Remainer publishers, will the Brexit Spartans soon be heading to Hollywood?

The Telegraph's weekly Peterborough diary column offers an unparalleled insight into what's really going on at Westminster and beyond

Christopher Hope

Spotlight on... Omicron

Why many on the Left want another lockdown

Tom Harris
Lockdown looms and our liberties are in tatters

Tim Stanley
The repeated use of emergency Covid powers makes me fear for our democracy

Silkie Carlo
The failed Whitehall blob threatens to push Britain back into lockdown

Sherelle Jacobs

Way of the World

'Way of the World' is a twice-weekly satirical look at the headlines while aiming to mock the absurdities of the modern world. It is published at 7am every Tuesday and Saturday

Sorry, Prime Minister. The party's over

If those in power thought that following their own rules was beneath them, they might at least have devised a vaguely plausible excuse first

Michael Deacon

Video

Watch: How the Left destroyed Paris

Socialist Mayor Anne Hidalgo has made the city unsafe, uglier and dirty

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet
China doesn't need to spy on the West. Its stooges are out in the open

Xi Jinping has adopted Mao's mantle

Matthew Henderson
Joe Biden is everything he accused Donald Trump of being

Whether it's Biden's disastrous foreign policy or his promise to "unite the country" he has failed on every front

Nile Gardiner

Latest Opinion

Next year will be even worse for Biden and the West

Con Coughlin 22 Dec 2021, 9:30pm
Which of the Tories will speak for liberty?

Kate Andrews 22 Dec 2021, 7:16pm
Michael Deacon's quiz of the year: 10 questions about 2021

Michael Deacon 22 Dec 2021, 7:00pm
The omicron shutdown is a serious threat to our waistlines

Naveed Sattar 22 Dec 2021, 5:58pm
Sturgeon and Drakeford are drunk on power

Jamie Blackett 22 Dec 2021, 3:58pm
Nicola Sturgeon's Brexit gamble has failed. Now she has nowhere to go

Tom Harris 22 Dec 2021, 1:44pm
Harry Miller has taught the thought police a lesson. But there's still a long way to go

Matthew Scott 22 Dec 2021, 1:41pm
'The NHS is not beyond reproach': Sherelle Jacobs responds to readers on omicron restrictions

Sherelle Jacobs 22 Dec 2021, 1:24pm