We speak your mind. Enjoy free-thinking comment that champions your values. |  | Ella Nunn Health Writer | Every January, many of us enter the month convinced that we’ll stick to our resolutions. But by “Quitters Day”, the second Friday of January, our commitment to performing four workouts a week has dwindled to one at best.
So, how can we start healthy habits that last well beyond January? Are New Year’s resolutions actually worth it? Which should we focus on above others? We asked some of the world’s top health experts, including Dr Megan Rossi, a dietitian and research fellow at King’s College London.
“People end up damaging their gut metabolism connection by adopting over restrictive and fad diets in the New Year,” she says. “A better resolution is to pair every taste bud treat with something that feeds your gut microbiome.” For example, you could have a few tomatoes with your pasta, carrot sticks with your crisps, or a piece of fruit with your chocolate.
Dr David Garley, a GP and sleep doctor, offers advice on getting better rest. “Whilst it’s natural to fixate on your evening routine, shift your focus to the morning,” he explains. “By waking up at the same time every day and carrying out activities that reinforce the ‘wake phase’ of your circadian rhythm, you’ll soon find that the ‘sleep phase’ arrives more naturally at night.”
To help your mind stay active, Prof Peter Garrard says that “learning a new language is a brilliant way to keep your brain young”. If that doesn’t come naturally, there are other ways to maintain a day-to-day churn, “from Sudoku to a new dance routine”. Doing what you are comfortable with means you are far more likely to have kept it up, come summer.
Continue reading ➤ | | More than 100,000 people joined the party along the Thames in central London as Big Ben rang in 2026 this morning. See the best pictures from New Year celebrations around the world here. | | Eleanor Mills With her candid revelation about an indecent assault when she was young, Her Majesty has proved yet again that she has the common touch Continue reading ➤ Tom Harris Rayner to be next PM... and some of my other political predictions for 2026 Continue reading ➤ Nile Gardiner Donald Trump enters 2026 as the real leader of Europe Continue reading ➤ | Never miss a moment. Stay ahead with live news updates in our award-winning app. | | Four individuals were recently arrested on suspicion of spying for China | | Hundreds of Taiwanese veterans, on-duty officers and civil servants have been recruited to spy for Beijing as China prepares for an invasion of the island. Taiwan authorities have admitted that some of these spies may have gained access to secret defence plans, now in Beijing’s hands. In an exclusive interview with The Telegraph, David Hsu, the deputy director of Taiwan’s ministry of justice investigative bureau, discusses exactly how China recruits spies in Taiwan and the risks posed to the country by these espionage campaigns. Continue reading ➤ | | | Whether investors are hoping for a repeat of 2025’s extraordinary market performance or keen to mitigate the effects of high inflation for a fourth year running, Telegraph Money has your back with a practical guide to investing in 2026 – including how to keep your returns away from the Chancellor. Continue reading ➤ | | | Whatever your children’s ages and whatever the season, Amanda Hyde has found a trip that will satisfy your family’s wanderlust. Take your pick from memorable adventures, including camping in Croatia during the May half term, summer stargazing on the west coast of Ireland and going wild in Borneo during the October break. Continue reading ➤ | | | Stuart Morris noticed that as he got older, career opportunities were starting to dry up and he was being dismissed as “too senior” for the digital age. But rather than fade away, the 63 year old went on an intensive AI course before landing a top job at a global law firm. He is part of a wave of over-60s securing lucrative roles in AI by offering crucial skills younger workers don’t always possess – healthy scepticism and the ability to ask the right questions.
Continue reading ➤ | | | Take off the right days and you can more than double your holidays in 2026 | | With some clever leave-taking you can more than double your number of days off next year. We’ve worked out how to maximise your holiday allowance, including weekends and bank holidays in our calculations, so that from a bumper Easter break to an extended August escape, there are plenty of ways to make your trips that bit longer. Continue reading ➤ | | | Fuel for the day: French toast with bacon and tomato relish | Whether your New Year’s Eve was raucous or refined, we have served up a recipe collection that provides the ultimate hangover relief for the morning after. It comes in the form of deliciously comforting stodge (just try the generous full English cooked in one pan), toast with a range of toppings (cue chilli-roast tomatoes and crispy bacon, or jammy eggs with a dollop of hot sauce), and doses of vibrant citrus. Continue reading ➤ Below are two more helpful articles for you this morning: - Bread has been a staple of our diets for at least 14,000 years, but over the past two decades it has been demonised as unhealthy. Here’s why it might actually be good for you.
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|  | Caroline Leaper Deputy Fashion Director | At the beginning of this year, an unnamed source from Kensington Palace fed gossip to the press, apparently suggesting that the Princess of Wales wanted to focus more on her work rather than her wardrobe in 2025. “The style is there, but it’s about the substance,” they said.
However, this year has been one of the Princess’s most glamorous to date. She has proved on multiple occasions that fashion can be used to emphasise and draw further attention to the causes and events that matter to her, rather than detracting or distracting from them.
Bethan Holt, The Telegraph’s Fashion Director, has selected the eight best of these looks, from the “wow dress” intentionally chosen for its message of international diplomacy, to the refreshed take on the classic royal country look.
My personal favourite was the gold lace dress which the Princess wore during Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK. It ticked all the boxes – British-made with traditional fabrics, yet still totally dazzling. She looked exactly how you would hope a princess might look; it was the sort of dress that wowed young fans when they saw the pictures the next day.
Continue reading ➤ | The end of the text Every weekday our letters team shares an off-piste topic that has brought out the best of your opinions and stories. Today, Kate Moore, our Assistant Letters Editor, explores the decline of the text message. Kate writes...
A happy New Year to all our readers. To those of you disinclined to stand around in the cold until the small hours, I hope you were able to spread goodwill in other ways. Increasingly, though, it looks like you won’t be doing it by text. According to the latest data from Ofcom, Britons sent 1.6bn fewer mobile messages last year, representing a drop of more than a fifth.
Though that means that we are still managing 5.4bn between us, it does indicate how habits are changing. At one time, the stereotype was that texting was for teenagers, while the older generation couldn’t cope with “:))” or “lol”, preferring to call wherever possible. Then parents worked out the code, and texting became something reserved for Baby Boomers.
Now we’ve all abandoned texting for encrypted messaging systems such as WhatsApp. “I can’t recall the last time I sent a text,” said Nicholas Brough: “Still get a few though.” Others, such as Viki Lester, skipped the interim stage: “I never used SMS – even though they are free on our mobiles now – but avidly use WhatsApp with numerous friends.”
More and more, we fall back on the older technologies for communicating with companies, not friends. “I hardly ever look at emails either these days, apart from checking when something I’ve ordered will be delivered,” said Robert Kenyon.
There are also financial disincentives to texting. “My provider now charges for texts with images or links so I’ve mostly stopped using it,” said Barbara Owen. “Sad, when they make so much anyway from the monthly charge.”
Sad? Perhaps, though I can’t think that the world will mourn the loss of those messages saying “Pls ring” – or, as in my impecunious teenage years, “Can you top up my phone?” Adam Bell was of similar mind. “Text was great back in the day, and the only option, but we aren’t in 2003 any more. Like everything, things move on, in this case, for the better.” As with the traditional letter or postcard, texts have started to seem almost quaint. Perhaps with the passing of years we will look back on them more fondly, like a note slipped under your front door. It’s not so much what they said – we all remember the relentless flow of junk leaflets through the letterbox – as the fact that someone bothered to find you in the first place.
Will you still be sending texts in the foreseeable, or are you a WhatsApp devotee? Or do you even belong to that dwindling band willing to use a phone to make phone calls? Let us know here.
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