We believe in freedom. Free press. Free speech. Free markets. If you share these values, join us today. |  | Guy Kelly | Piers Morgan is incapacitated. A run-in with a six-inch step at the Four Seasons on Park Lane left the veteran journalist with a broken femur, forcing him to have a hip replacement at the tender age of 60. Three weeks on, he’s largely confined to his armchair, watching rolling news, tweeting energetically and broadcasting from his living room.
“Life is completely on hold,” he told me, when I paid a visit to the home he shares with his wife, The Telegraph’s Celia Walden, this week. However immobile he may be, it will take far more than a broken hip and major surgery to keep Morgan quiet – especially during a news cycle like this one.
So away he went, firing off hot takes like he couldn’t wait to get rid of them. Sir Keir Starmer is “toast”, he reckons. Lord Mandelson’s “Achilles heel is himself”. It wouldn’t surprise him if Jeffrey Epstein is “an agent for Mossad and Russia”.
His friend Donald Trump is destined to be a “lame duck president”. Harry and Meghan have “become irrelevant”. As for Brooklyn Beckham? “Just f---ing grow up, you little spoiled brat”.
A lot of people have been waiting for your fall from grace, I told him, as we settled in. At this, he laughed. “People have told me they’re disappointed I got back up…”
Read the full interview ➤ |  | Dominic Penna | As the crisis engulfing Sir Keir Starmer over the Mandelson affair deepens, it has emerged that Morgan McSweeney, the Prime Minister’s chief of staff, was warned a year ago that appointing Lord Mandelson would be a mistake.
Before the disgraced peer took up his role as US ambassador, McSweeney was sent a dossier by Lord Glasman, the Labour grandee, highlighting Mandelson’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
The disclosure will pile further pressure on the beleaguered Prime Minister, who is facing questions over his judgment in giving Mandelson the job.
The memo, sent after Lord Glasman attended Donald Trump's inauguration last year, warned: “Withdraw Peter Mandelson. He is the wrong man at the wrong time in the wrong place.”
He went on to tell McSweeney: “The vast majority of people I met… consider our appointment of Peter Mandelson an unnecessary provocation.
“Several people showed me a photograph of him blowing out the birthday candles with Jeffrey Epstein.”
Labour MPs will be appalled that Sir Keir and McSweeney ignored the advice, and it is likely to prompt many to question how long both can survive in Downing Street. Continue reading ➤ | | Liam Kelly The London launch of Emerald Fennell’s iconoclastic adaptation had the audience gasping, sobbing and squealing with delight Continue reading ➤ Kara Kennedy Saturday Night Left! America’s most insufferable TV show is coming to Britain Continue reading ➤ Eleanor Mills Why pampered Royal ‘spares’ go bad Continue reading ➤ | | By the way, Google has introduced a new feature called “preferred sources”, so you can see more journalism that you know and trust in your search results. Add The Telegraph today and ensure you never miss the stories that matter. | | Swift appeared on Norton’s show with Domhnall Gleeson (right) | | If you’ve struggled to get a GP appointment lately, today’s story may offer an explanation – though not necessarily reassurance. The NHS is quietly piloting a scheme that allows GPs to treat British patients from abroad, even from holiday destinations like Malaysia or Australia. It raises an uncomfortable question: when healthcare becomes remote, what exactly happens to the doctor-patient relationship – and who really benefits? Continue reading ➤ | | | At 21, Henry Pollock could already write a book about his haters. As it turns out, he’s already reading one. The England back-rower is the irresistible, controversial and provocative new face of rugby and, fresh from having his highlights done at the Queen’s hairdresser in Mayfair, Pollock sits down with Gavin Mairs to explain why he is prepared to face the slings and arrows if his antics help bring a new audience to the sport. Continue reading ➤ | | | In the early 1990s, securing a first-class degree was an exceptional feat. Fast-forward to 2026, however, and it’s a very different story. Unprecedented grade inflation has taken place while universities have massively expanded access to lower-achieving students. Julie Henry examines the apparent link between the rise in firsts and 2:1s and falling admissions standards. Both, she finds, are a result of an arms race among institutions hungry for cash. Continue reading ➤ | | | For years, Shirley Cole believed she’d qualify for the full state pension – HMRC’s online calculator told her so. However, as we reported yesterday, it turned out its figures were wrong. This left Cole with a smaller pension than she’d planned for, and plunged her into a bitter three-year feud with the tax authority, which still hasn’t reached its conclusion. Continue reading ➤ | | | David Jonsson, who starred in BBC One’s 2023 adaptation of Murder is Easy, was the first black lead in an Agatha Christie | | The BBC must stop “shoehorning” diversity into its dramas, an independent report has said. Commissioned by the Corporation itself, the document paints a picture of well-meaning white commissioners, producers and editors pushing “clunky” storylines for the sake of ticking a box. Screenwriters have become just as disgruntled as viewers at an “over-compensating” broadcaster lacking in courage. Continue reading ➤ | | | Spring may feel like a distant hope, but new arrivals at Cos, M&S and Massimo Dutti are already breathing life into the high street. From elevated knitwear to modern skirts and statement accessories, these are the tried, wearable pieces really worth adding to your basket now. Continue reading ➤ Below are two more articles that I hope will improve your weekend: - There are roughly 440 ski resorts in Austria. If choosing one feels overwhelming, our veteran skier has reviewed the top 40. Here’s his verdict.
- Prunes have been out of favour for decades, until now. The dried fruit costs as little as 70 pence, but could prevent cancer and improve bone health. Here’s how to add it to your diet.
| Recipes you don’t have to think about | Roast pumpkin soup with sage butter |  | Diana Henry The Telegraph’s award-winning cookery writer | You may think I spend my weekends making elaborate meals for friends, but I love the sense of freedom of being able to cook whatever I like and often, in this weather, that means soup. It’s a kind of miracle dish as it can be made from what’s around in the fridge or the vegetable rack. I love to cook with squash and pumpkin – I have about a dozen soup recipes for them. Try my roast pumpkin soup with sage butter. It makes sense to do a big pot that will carry you through the beginning of the week, too. | Fig and hazelnut wheaten bread | For much of the week, I’m testing recipes. I cook with a notebook beside me, jotting down the quantities I’ve used. At the weekend, I take my notebook into the kitchen before I remember that I’m not working. My shoulders drop. I go back to a time when cooking was a hobby, not my job. I make dishes I don’t need a recipe for, bread that doesn’t need yeast to rise that can be ready in half an hour. Wheaten bread is a brown soda bread made in Northern Ireland. Some kind of salad is a mainstay as well, as long as it’s not too cold. If the weekend is made from soup, bread and salad, it’s crowned with something sweet. If I time it right, this upside-down pecan and cinnamon cake – gloriously moist – can be coming out of the oven just as it starts to get dark.
Find me here every Saturday – and in the new Telegraph Recipes Newsletter which you can sign up to here.
Happy cooking! | Andrew Baker’s Saturday Quiz |
Gather round for the latest instalment of my Saturday quiz.
You can find the answers at the end of the newsletter. - Charles Dickens was born on this day in 1812. He left school at the age of 12 and went to work in a factory – making what?
- Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture requires which unusual and noisy equipment?
- Toussaint L’Ouverture was a revolutionary leader and “Father” of which nation?
- The television series Father Ted is set on which fictional island?
- What is the world’s largest island?
| | Find as many words as you can in today’s Panagram, including the nine-letter solution. Visit Telegraph Puzzles to play a range of head-scratching games, including PlusWord, Sorted, and Quick, Mini or Cryptic Crosswords.
Yesterday’s Panagram was HABITABLE. Come back tomorrow for the solution to today’s puzzle. | | Thank you for reading. Have a fulfilling day and I hope to see you tomorrow. Chris Evans, Editor
P.S. Please send me your thoughts on this newsletter. You can email me here. | Quiz answers: - Boot blacking (shoe polish)
- Cannons
- Haiti
- Craggy Island
- Greenland
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