Janet Eastham

Acting Religious and Social Affairs Editor

Janet Eastham is part of the award-winning Telegraph Investigations team along with Claire Newell, Katherine Rushton and Sophie Barnes. The team has published a series of groundbreaking exclusives that have held the powerful to account. From Covid scandals, #MeToo and corruption in sport, the team has uncovered evidence that has led to criminal and parliamentary inquiries.

Live Supreme Court to rule if trans women are women

Tom McArdle 16 Apr 2025, 8:50am

How one JSO supporter’s net-zero obsession tore a church apart

Rural church has been left in the cold since 2023 when ‘activist’ energy adviser refused to install a boiler

Janet Eastham 15 Apr 2025, 6:00am
Net zero ‘is destroying the Church of England’

Commitment to cut carbon emissions leaves rural churches out in the cold, Telegraph investigation finds

Janet Eastham 12 Apr 2025, 11:03am
‘Mercy-killing’ daughter spared jail

‘Our family paid a heavy price,’ says woman given suspended sentence for smothering terminally ill father

Janet Eastham 11 Apr 2025, 3:03pm

White House plots to support ‘censored’ anti-abortion activists in Britain

It comes as campaigner Livia Tossici-Bolt was convicted for protesting outside a Bournemouth clinic

Janet Eastham 4 Apr 2025, 2:02pm
Labour’s change to abortion clinic law blamed for US free speech row

Removal of guidance that protected silent prayer is ‘yet another attack on freedom of thought’, says Suella Braverman

Janet Eastham 2 Apr 2025, 3:08pm
The pro-lifer whose protest in Bournemouth triggered free speech row with Trump

US ‘monitoring’ retired medical scientist’s court case for holding up placard outside abortion clinic

Janet Eastham 31 Mar 2025, 9:43pm
The 10 reasons why the Assisted Dying Bill has been delayed

Lawyer who drafted the legislation for Kim Leadbeater’s Bill has admitted she ‘didn’t have time’ to specify how the service would work

Janet Eastham 26 Mar 2025, 7:52pm
Assisted dying in doubt after Leadbeater backs down

Delay until 2029 could mean Government abandons ‘unworkable’ Bill

Janet Eastham 26 Mar 2025, 12:57am
Outrage as Labour council charges £1,800 admin fee for home care

Cash-strapped Barnet claims the annual sum is necessary to cover its costs

Janet Eastham 24 Mar 2025, 4:31pm

‘Village green’ to be replaced by mosque car park

New owners of former church accused of upsetting community by digging up lawn and felling conifer used as Christmas tree

Janet Eastham 24 Mar 2025, 8:34am
NHS refuses to force-feed anorexic woman at ‘imminent’ risk of death

Family of 25-year-old ‘finds it strange that NHS has chance to save her life but is refusing to take it’, court told

Janet Eastham 20 Mar 2025, 6:56pm
NHS putting anorexic girls into comas in ‘last resort’ attempt to force-feed them

Cases go to court as world-renowned clinic expresses concern at ‘draconian approach when proven alternatives exist’

Janet Eastham 16 Mar 2025, 10:00am
MPs scrap need for High Court to approve assisted dying

Judicial safeguard, cited as helping to create safest assisted dying law in world, removed by committee overseeing Bill

Janet Eastham 12 Mar 2025, 9:52pm
Labour ‘comfortable’ with private firms providing assisted dying

Free at the point of use doesn’t preclude the use of independent contractors, says care minister Stephen Kinnock

Genevieve Holl-Allen 11 Mar 2025, 5:06pm
Female gym owner attacked online for banning trans women

Activists criticise fitness influencer following about-turn over membership rules

Janet Eastham 10 Mar 2025, 6:48pm
Watch: Channel 4 used Hamas official’s son in award-winning coverage

After the BBC pulled a programme featuring the teenager, it emerges he also appeared in ITN-produced news show

Janet Eastham 3 Mar 2025, 9:25pm
Pensioner died of sepsis after physician associate misdiagnosed her with nosebleed

Coroner says PA title is ‘misleading’ and often families do not know that they can seek a second opinion from a doctor

Janet Eastham 27 Feb 2025, 1:18pm
Assisted dying could be the next Horizon scandal, claims Labour MP

The warnings are too stark for any of us to ignore, says Naz Shah

Janet Eastham 26 Feb 2025, 10:29pm
Anorexia sufferers could access assisted dying after MPs refuse to close Bill loophole

Charities claim people with eating disorders may be at risk after being ‘overlooked’ in proposed legislation

Janet Eastham 25 Feb 2025, 10:45pm
Lord Carey faces disciplinary action over ‘failures’ in Church child abuse scandal

Former archbishop of Canterbury is among senior Church of England figures accused of knowing about abuse by John Smyth but failing to act

Janet Eastham 25 Feb 2025, 6:29pm
Pope Francis diagnosed with pneumonia in both lungs

Vatican offers update on 88-year-old pontiff’s condition after he was admitted to hospital on Friday

Josephine McKenna 18 Feb 2025, 7:26pm