We speak your mind. Enjoy free-thinking comment that champions your values. | | The United States will control parts of Greenland by designating them as sovereign base areas under a proposed deal reached in Davos.
The Telegraph understands that the draft framework would mirror Britain’s arrangement with Cyprus, with American bases being treated as US territory in the Arctic region.
The deal, agreed last night between Donald Trump and Mark Rutte, the Nato secretary-general, would allow the US to conduct military operations, intelligence and training, as well as pursue some local development, including potential rare earth mining, without seeking Denmark’s consent. Read more on the terms of the agreement here.
Back in Washington, Republicans carved up a cake shaped like Greenland as they celebrated the US president’s deal on the future of the island. Trump dropped his threat of 10 per cent trade tariffs on the UK and other European countries after announcing the “long-term deal”. He offered few details about the framework, other than to describe the duration as “forever”.
Allister Heath, Sunday Telegraph Editor, writes below that the US president is playing a zero-sum game and shattering the old world order.
 | Allister Heath Sunday Telegraph Editor | Defcon 3, here we come. The world is a powder keg, and Donald Trump is flamethrower-waving like a famished pyromaniac. He desperately desires Greenland, and will incinerate any relationship, however special, that stands in the way of his imperial delirium.
His speech at Davos was incendiary, a torching of the West by the supposed leader of the free world. The blackmailer-in-chief now claims he won’t use force to seize Greenland, but if America’s “immediate negotiations” are underpinned by the kind of techniques that would have made a New York mobster proud, what difference will it make? | The US president spoke for over an hour at the World Economic Forum in Davos yesterday | His threat to tariff Britain, his grotesque bullying, have obliterated any residual goodwill towards Trump among the Right-leaning British public, even when they agree with him on Chagos, net zero or his scathing assessment of Europe. No Western conservative leader, from Jordan Bardella to Giorgia Meloni to Nigel Farage or Kemi Badenoch can afford not to condemn him.
There is a real danger that Trump’s imperialistic overreach could trigger a catastrophic chain reaction. A concerted boycott of US treasury bonds, as some are demanding, would destroy not just America but the European and world economy.
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Sketch by Tim Stanley: Trump’s parody of Macron would be a hate crime in many European states ➤ | | Eir Nolsøe Growing dissonance between genders on the ballot will make the UK an even more polarised country Continue reading ➤ Neil McCormick The bland Brits should thank their lucky stars for Lily Allen Continue reading ➤ Victoria Moss Treating a dog like a child isn’t healthy. I should know, I do it Continue reading ➤ | | An aerial view of the landslide that was triggered by heavy rain in Mount Maunganui | | The victim slept in a small room with filthy bedding | | A mother-of-10 forced a woman with learning difficulties to work as her “house slave” for more than 25 years. The victim, who is now in her mid-40s, was just 16 when she moved into the squalid Tewkesbury home of Amanda Wixon in 1995 and remained there until 2021.
The woman was regularly beaten and hit with a broom handle, was forced to feed off scraps, could not leave the house and was forced to wash secretly at night. As she left court, Wixon was asked what she had to say to her victim and replied: “Not a lot.” Tim Sigsworth has the shocking report from court here. Continue reading ➤ | |  | | Reading Brooklyn’s account of his own wedding humiliation struck a painful chord for this groom. Although his mother generously contributed tens of thousands of pounds to the wedding, her controlling behaviour spiralled into a nightmare reception. From an impromptu toast branding his ex-partners “stupid, silly girls” to dancing suggestively with his male friends, the “life and soul” of the party ensured all eyes remained on her – leaving her son to make a drastic decision the morning after.
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Have your say in the great Beckham debate: Which team are you? ➤ | | | | | Pubs, in their various guises, have weathered storms far greater than Rachel Reeves’s tax raid. They have survived the Black Death, the Civil War and a Victorian temperance movement of 3.5 million teetotallers. Iain Hollingshead charts the steadfast role pubs have played in shaping the Britain we know today, and how these institutions have become a hotbed for British ingenuity.
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Plus, five ways you can help Save Our Pubs ➤ | | | Jim Ambrose, who until he was 20 years old was called Kristi and raised as female | | In 1976, Kristi Ambrose was born with XY (male) chromosomes but classed as “intersex”, because their genitalia had not developed properly. Doctors performed “corrective” surgery, making the phallus into a clitoris and removing the testes. Kristi was now a girl. But what became of her? At the beginning of a new documentary, a bearded Jim Ambrose declares, “I am Kristi”. Continue reading ➤ | | | International tourism to Thailand fell 8 per cent last year | | Having starred in The White Lotus, Thailand was hoping for a boom in overseas visitors. However, the opposite has happened, with numbers falling sharply. What went wrong? Various factors are at play, from a political row with China to border skirmishes with Cambodia. But it appears that Western tourists might simply have grown tired of the country. Continue reading ➤ | | | Sholto David is on Time Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in health | | Sholto David is an Oxford-based biologist by day, internet “sleuther” by night. He dedicates hours every day to scouring peer-reviewed scientific literature for innocent mistakes and evidence of fraud and corruption. He tells Abigail Buchanan about exposing 6,000 errors and recently earning a £2m payout for discovering flawed data. Continue reading ➤ | | | From fish pie to apple crumble, nutrition expert Sam Rice gives five comforting dishes a healthy makeover | Want to enjoy hearty comfort foods without piling on the pounds? The secret lies in reducing fats in your diet and replacing them with fibre – a nutrient that regulates appetite and promotes beneficial gut bacteria. From tomato soup to omelettes and curry, The Telegraph’s nutrition expert offers simple, fibre-rich tweaks to our favourite winter dishes that will keep waistlines in check. Continue reading ➤ Here’s another helpful article for you this morning: - The tax returns deadline of Jan 31 is looming. If you are one of the millions yet to face up to the task, here are seven things that could trip you up when you do get around to it.
| | The Princess worked with Johnstons of Elgin on this tartan-like design for Tuesday’s Scotland visit |  | Bethan Holt Fashion Director | Around a year ago, the Princess of Wales’s team seemed keen to focus media attention on her work, rather than her clothing choices. However, on Tuesday, the Princess showcased her talents as a fashion designer, and did an excellent job of flying the flag for British manufacturing in the process.
The Princess worked with Johnstons of Elgin, the Scottish maker, to create the tartan-like fabric of her bespoke Chris Kerr coat. She fittingly wore it on a visit to Scotland with the Prince of Wales. The design (and her decision to publicise her involvement in its process) says so much about how far Catherine’s own relationship with fashion has come.
The “Kate effect” has boosted British fashion brands by as much as £1bn per year. The Princess’s influence is vast, and the newfound confidence she has to harness that power and actively engage with fashion will have an even greater effect on the UK’s clothing industry.
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Bulk-buying is back. We all tried our hand at it during the pandemic, of course – but after that I relished being able to saunter into Sainsbury’s and pick up a single tin of chopped tomatoes from a well-stocked shelf. That’s freedom.
Now, though, store cupboards are groaning once more. The trend, according to Sue Quinn, isn’t being led by grizzled survivalists in the remoter reaches of Montana, but by middle-class shoppers flocking to Costco for high-end groceries in boxes of 48 and jars the size of beer kegs. Am I missing out?
Plenty of Telegraph readers are partial to a bit of stockpiling. Michael Eastley singled out “the big jars of pretzels in Costco, which are wonderful”.
Louise Thomas wrote: “I am a long-term member and fan of Costco. It is great for a number of things I regularly buy in bulk, such as the own-brand loo rolls and dishwasher tablets, Lavazza coffee, Lurpak, Alpro soy milk and Aerial pods. It works out far cheaper than buying as you go in other supermarkets.”
Paul Whatley added: “If a bit of hoarding was good enough for Samuel Pepys, it’s good enough for me. He buried his wheel of Parmesan in the back yard to save it from the Great Fire of London.”
Nigel Ashworth sounded a sceptical note, however: “This is insanity. The level of anxiety it suggests is disturbing.” Are you a serial stockpiler? Send your responses here, and the best of the bunch will feature in a future edition of From the Editor PM, for which you can sign up here.
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