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43 unusual facts about The Daily Telegraph


Adam Joinson

In 2010, Joinson spoke with The Daily Telegraph about his belief that social media may have negative effects on privacy and intimacy levels between people.

Alex Olmedo

Olmedo was ranked World No. 2 in 1959 by Lance Tingay of The Daily Telegraph.

Arthur Calwell

At the 1963 election, Calwell hoped to build on his gains from two years earlier, but was severely crippled by a picture in the The Daily Telegraph showing he and Whitlam waiting outside a Canberra hotel for Labor's Federal Conference to tell them what policies on which they were to fight the election.

At the End of My Leash

The Daily Telegraph considered At the End of My Leash "One to Watch" on Friday, December 14, 2007, the day the show premiered in the UK.

Australian cricket team in England in 1888

Turner scored a dozen and Ferris twelve, but The Daily Telegraph remarked that "it has to be said that never in the annals of cricket has such a fortunate innings as that of Ferris been compiled".

Bell Pottinger Private

On 8 December 2011, the UK national newspaper The Daily Telegraph reported that some Wikipedia user accounts allegedly linked to Bell Pottinger had been suspended.

British Pregnancy Advisory Service

In late 2004, the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph presented a video to the British government (Health Secretary Dr John Reid and Chief Medical Officer Professor Sir Liam Donaldson) showing BPAS counsellors referring women whose pregnancies were too advanced for legal abortions in Britain (past 24 weeks) to a clinic in Barcelona, Spain.

Budge Patty

Patty was ranked World No. 1 in 1950 by John Olliff of The Daily Telegraph.

Dark Souls

The Daily Telegraph gave the game the "Best Integration of Online Features" award, and nominated it for the awards of "Best Director" (Hidetaka Miyazaki), "Best Level Design", "Best Sound Design", "Best Original Score" (Motoi Sakuraba), "Best Developer" (From Software), and "Game of the Year".

David Andrew Smith

In January 2008, The Daily Telegraph identified him as one of the most influential Britons in America.

Don Juan in Soho

"Keep an eye on that famous statue. Like so much in this production, it will astound you.": Charles Spencer in The Daily Telegraph, 7 December 2006.

Effects of weather on sport

Velodrome designers capitalise on this, heating the stadium in the hope of making the cycling faster, and The Daily Telegraph has reported that some Olympic Games organisers have pumped cold air into velodromes to give rival teams a disadvantage in close time trials.

Francis Jue

The Daily Telegraph wrote: "Jue gives a haunting performance as Sally".

Geraldine Kennedy

Kennedy was paid more than the editor of the UK's top non-tabloid newspaper The Daily Telegraph, which has a circulation of about 9 times that of The Irish Times.

Hamida Ghafour

In 2003 she returned to Afghanistan to cover the reconstruction and first election for The Daily Telegraph.

Harry Pearce

Benji Wilson of The Daily Telegraph in describing Harry and Ruth's relationship commented that "(Ruth's) scenes with Peter Firth, another fine player, have become self-contained little bubbles of weltschmerz within every recent episode".

Hazrat Jandaha

Hindi and English newspapers are easily available in the city, including Dainik Jagran, Hindustan, Prabhat Khabar, The Daily Telegraph and The Times of India.

Intelligent Giving

Intelligent Giving's argument was rejected by John Inverdale, a BBC broadcaster, in an opinion piece in The Daily Telegraph as "misguided reporting that fails to understand how fund-raising operates."

LocoScript

When the PCW product line was discontinued in 1998, The Daily Telegraph said that the range of independently produced add-on software for LocoScript had contributed to the series' longevity.

Luther Burger

The Daily Telegraph reported that Mulligan's may be progenitor of the burger when the owner substituted the doughnuts when running out of buns.

Map of the Invisible World

The Daily Telegraph criticized the book, citing the suspense as "half-hearted" and the character of Adam as "so infuriatingly passive that he is neither credible nor particularly engaging".

Maurice Bucaille

According to Sameer Rahim, writing in The Daily Telegraph, Bucaille's "assertions have been ridiculed by scientists and sophisticated theologians".

Muslim Brotherhood of Syria

Despite that, The Telegraph reported on August 2012 that the Muslim Brotherhood had established its own militia not affiliated to the FSA inside Syria, called "Armed Men of the Muslim Brotherhood", with presence in Damascus and other places like Homs or Idlib.

Newspapers in Australia

Other notable newspapers are The Sydney Morning Herald, The Daily Telegraph, The Age, and The Herald Sun (Melbourne).

Nick Nuttall

Before joining UNEP, he was the Environment and Technology Correspondent at The Times from 1989 and before that worked for various newspapers and magazines including The Daily Telegraph; The Independent; the Evening Standard and London Evening News, Woman and Cosmopolitan.

Paston Way

The Daily Telegraph printed an article which Scott had written about a visit to the north Norfolk coast.

Rachel Sylvester

From 1999-2008 she was the assistant political editor at The Daily Telegraph.

Ramanathan Krishnan

Critics hailed Krishnan as a marvel, Lance Tingay of The Daily Telegraph described his tennis as 'pure oriental charm' while another described his style as 'Eastern magic'.

Robert Moss

He edited The Economist's weekly Foreign Report from 1974-1980, and wrote for many other publications, including The Daily Telegraph, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic and Commentary.

Rubina Ali

According to the United Kingdom newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, Rubina Ali was paid £500 during filming for a month’s work on the film.

Ruth Evershed

Benji Wilson of The Daily Telegraph commented on series ten finale that "normality returned with the death of Ruth"; and praised Walker's performance stating "an actress who has squeezed every drop out of TV’s greatest ever largely dumbstruck doormat for the best part of a decade. Her scenes with Peter Firth, another fine player, have become self-contained little bubbles of weltschmerz within every recent episode".

Sadie Harris

Erin McWhirter of The Daily Telegraph called George's character "outrageous" in response to the appendectomy.

Sue Palmer

The Daily Telegraph published a letter she wrote with child specialist Richard House; signed by over a hundred experts, they call for a national debate on child education.

Telegraph Media Group

The Telegraph Media Group (previously the Telegraph Group) is the proprietor of The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph.

The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger

In an interview with the UK publication The Daily Telegraph Lennon commented on their relationship: "Charlotte hadn’t even heard "Strawberry Fields Forever" when I met her," Lennon said.

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

The Daily Telegraphs John Preston was positive about the film and particularly praised Maxine Peake's acting.

The Sleeping Girl of Turville

A correspondent from The Daily Telegraph visited Ellen about 22 months after she fell ill.

The Torment

The album established the band as "one of England's leading thrash metal bands" by The Daily Telegraph.

The Tree of Wooden Clogs

British film-maker Mike Leigh praised the film in The Daily Telegraphs 'Film makers on film' interview series, on 19 October 2002.

Tracey Wainman

Howard Bass of The Daily Telegraph wrote, "Tracey steals the show", and predicted she would win the 1984 Olympic title.

Wakefield Council election, 2008

The Daily Telegraph felt Labour would struggle to remain in control, but the Yorkshire Post believed it would remain safe for Labour.

Wilhelm Bungert

Bungert was ranked as high as World No. 4 for 1964 by Lance Tingay of The Daily Telegraph.

Wilmer Allison

He was ranked U.S. No. 1 both years and World No. 4 in 1932 and again in 1935 by A. Wallis Myers of The Daily Telegraph.


Alison Kervin

She has also worked as a journalist for publications as diverse as The Spectator, New Statesman, Company, Woman’s Own, Vogue, New York Times, Sydney Morning Herald, That's Life, You magazine, The Mail on Sunday, The Daily Telegraph, Country Life and Tatler.

Camrose Trophy

Lord Camrose, owner of The Daily Telegraph, donated the trophy in 1936 and it was first contested in 1937.

Counterknowledge

Counterknowledge: How We Surrendered to Conspiracy Theories, Quack Medicine, Bogus Science and Fake History is a polemic by British writer and Daily Telegraph journalist Damian Thompson which examines the dissemination and reception of fringe theories.

Denis Halliday

On 25 October 2007, when a statue of David Lloyd George was unveiled in Parliament Square, Halliday, Harold Pinter and John Pilger had a letter printed in The Daily Telegraph in which they condemned the "celebration of Lloyd George's legacy", as "disgraceful", likening his policies of aerial bombardment of Middle Eastern countries to the present day Iraq War.

Dennis Ferguson

On 8 July 2012, Ferguson was spotted by The Daily Telegraph at Circular Quay in the Sydney CBD, selling RSPCA merchandise under the name, Ray Ferguson and holding up a tin of kangaroo-shaped biscuits.

Galaxy Research

Its polls are published in News Limited tabloid newspapers, including the Herald Sun, Courier-Mail and The Daily Telegraph, in contrast to Newspoll data which are presented in the News Limited broadsheet newspaper The Australian.

Jamila Mujahed

Hamida Ghafour, writing in The Daily Telegraph reported that she had appointed a delegate to the Constitutional Loya Jirga.

John Healey

In an interview with The Daily Telegraph in July 2009, the outgoing Chairman of the Sustainable Development Commission, Jonathon Porritt described Healey as 'just the most deeply disappointing person to work with' saying Healy took 'a spoiler role' with him from post to post that was 'deeply unhelpful'.

Jonathan Guinness, 3rd Baron Moyne

Moyne and his daughter, Daphne, both had letters published in the same edition of The Daily Telegraph (16 August 2003) attacking the writer Andrew Roberts over his criticism in the same newspaper on the 13th inst.

Kari Herbert

After leaving school she studied Media & Design in Portsmouth, then went on to work as a fashion stylist for Japanese rock bands before becoming a travel writer and photographer for newspapers and magazines such as The Independent, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, Geographical and Traveller.

Marianne Majerus

Her photographs appear regularly in Country Life, The Times, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph Magazine, House & Garden, Homes and Gardens, The Evening Standard (London), The RHS Garden Journal, The English Garden, Gardens Illustrated, as well as many garden magazines in Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia, Poland, Slovenia, the United States, Australia and Japan.

Na'ima B. Robert

She has spoken in support of the niqab in numerous British media, including The Daily Telegraph, BBC News, The Times Online, BBC Radio 4's The Moral Maze and Channel 4’s Undercover Mosque series; as well as speaking to Muslim and international media outlets, such as for Islam Channel and AIM TV.

Orange National Business Awards

The awards were created in 2002 and along with title sponsor Orange U.K., they are sponsored by companies such as The Daily Telegraph, and BlackBerry.

Parliamentary Brief

It has been described as ‘required reading’ (George Jones, political editor, The Daily Telegraph), with ‘an impressive range of sources’ (Philip Gould, adviser to the Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street).

Peter Seivewright

According to Britain's The Daily Telegraph, Seivewright underwent a quadruple-bypass operation in 2000, and used a work by Johann Sebastian Bach for purposes of music therapy.

The Box Tree

Jan Moir reviewed the restaurant in 2004 for The Daily Telegraph shortly after Gueller took over and refurbished the restaurant.

The Raw Story

It was also referenced in 2011 by The Telegraph newspaper, as being the news website that first revealed a contract had been awarded to Ntrepid by United States Central Command as part of 'Operation Earnest Voice' intended to deploy operatives to create fake online personas abroad.

Thornton Leigh Hunt

In 1855, he was asked by Joseph Moses Levy to co-edit The Daily Telegraph with his son Edward Levy-Lawson.

Timeline of mass migration to post-war Europe

In UK, according to The Daily Telegraph, a leaked secret memo reveals Home Office officials have changed guidelines in order to grant indefinite leave to remain to 40,000 illegal immigrants because it is going to be too difficult to remove them.