Michael Deacon

We caffeine addicts have had a bewildering week. According to reports, scientists have found that drinking five cups of black coffee a day could help reduce your risk of high blood pressure.

If you're wondering what sort of direction this country is headed in, consider the following fact.

Telegraph writers Michael Deacon and Tim Stanley take a look back at the biggest and most bonkers stories of the week. Michael and Tim discuss Andy Burnham’s holiday just two weeks into the job, the r...

What do you think would be an appropriate punishment for young men who blast out music from their phones on public transport? Death by firing squad? Hanging, drawing and quartering? Or are you one of those bleeding-heart pinko liberals who think a whole-life sentence in Belmarsh would suffice?

It's great that the Harry Potter books have got so many children into reading. There is, however, one small downside.

It’s great that the Harry Potter books have got so many children into reading. There is, however, one small downside.

Left-wingers are screeching that Nigel Farage’s plan is cruel and unfair. Here’s why they’re wrong

Few sights in 2020s Britain are more infuriating than that of some odious scrote vaulting the barriers at a railway station. It enrages us, not only because it’s against the law, but because it makes us feel like mugs. Here we are, paying extortionate sums for the privilege of making our daily commute, while these sniggering swine swagger in free of charge. Wherever it is they’re travelling to, you can be reasonably sure it isn’t a place of work.

The Green Party’s ruling body has just been bolstered by a fascinating new appointee. Eleanora Folan is a white trans woman – i.e., a male – who has voiced eager support for “the Iranian resistance, w...

Telegraph writers Michael Deacon and Poppy Coburn take a look at the biggest and most bonkers stories of the week.