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Monday December 7 2020

From The Editor

 

By Chris Evans, Editor

 

The best of The Telegraph's articles, sent by the Editor

Dear Reader,

The next few weeks will go down in history. As negotiations over our membership of the European Union continue (they are currently said to be on a "knife edge"), we know that one thing is certain: the Brexit transition will soon be over, and Britain will have left the EU.

Nick Timothy looks back at the last four and a half years, damning what he calls “the lies and hypocrisies”. He discusses what’s next for Britain, calling for us to become world leaders in new industries, to move fast, be less bureaucratic and more confident. There are many opportunities ahead.

We are always delighted to bring you remarkable stories from our top journalists, and this is definitely one of those. It’s by consumer champion, Katie Morley, and, in a very strange case of identity theft, it connects her to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the Salisbury spy poisoning case. I won’t tell you more as I urge to read it: it’s extraordinary.

Finally, can anyone solve the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle? The three-sided patch of the Atlantic Ocean is wrapped in mystique and inexplicable things are said to happen there. But is there any truth to the myth? Chris Leadbeater explains all in this fascinating article.

Chris

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My Choices

Family wearing masks and unwrapping presents

The Government is permitting three households to mix for five days over Christmas – but are the elderly safe to mingle? Sarah Knapton explains the science behind the risks.

Katie Morley in the Telegraph offices

'Of all the reporters Moscow's spies could have chosen, why did they pretend to be me?' – Don't miss Katie Morley's extraordinary experience of how she may have been targeted as part of a honey trap. (Free to read)

Blower cartoon Brexit fishing

'Leavers have won, but can our politicians lead us to post-Brexit prosperity?' – Nick Timothy writes that if Brexit is to be a success, we must rethink the way we run things.

 
Peter Alliss

Peter Alliss, the quintessential Englishman who became the voice of golf, has passed away. Read this touching tribute to the 'king of quips'.

The legendary "Lost Squadron" of Flight 19

It's clung to the popular imagination as something significantly sinister: This is the strange tale of Flight 19, the mystery that sparked the Bermuda Triangle myth. (Free to read)

Charles Sobhraj (centre) the now 76-year-old Frenchman variously known as the Bikini Killer, and the Serpent

A new BBC series tells the story of the unlikely diplomat who brought to justice one of the Seventies' most infamous psychopaths. Guy Kelly tells the fascinating story.

 
 

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