Within the next few days there may or may not be a leadership spill in the Liberal party. The contenders…

Stop the Albo

Criticising immigration could put you behind bars

The Supreme Court’s approach to abortion is being replicated

Trump’s ‘Donroe Doctrine’ and what it means for Australia

Labor-lite Liberals imagine they are the heirs to John Stuart Mill. They are not.

On policing free speech

Trump is re-making the world in America’s image

How Burke punishes Israel and indulges Islamism

Iran’s darkness was enabled by a treacherous West

A few years ago, everyone in Westminster was obsessed by The West Wing, but a decade of chaos and populism…

When Britain handed Hong Kong over to China in 1997, Tony Blair was in melancholic mood. The newly elected prime…

Two years ago my quality of life began to go downhill. It happened when BT Openreach gave our old copper…

It has been obvious for some time that there are basic concepts that the liberal British Establishment simply does not…

At the present count, we have 14 syringes. Some are stuffed in kitchen drawers, but I have also found an…

I write spy thrillers that attempt to deal authentically with the world around us. The Syrian civil war. Spy games…

Two of Ukraine’s most famous ballet dancers face dismissal, cancellation and possible mobilisation into the army. Their crime? They dared…

‘There’s no way of finding out what’s really happening in there,’ says Aaron Rainey, an XL bully expert who advises…

My eight-year-old son’s eyes widened when I unwrapped a Christmas present I got from my parents: a bottle of cherry…

I have been dithering for years about when to stop judging The Great British Bake Off. When I joined nine…

Home Labour’s National Executive Committee refused permission for Andy Burnham, currently Mayor of Greater Manchester, to stand in a by-election…

It’s been almost a full decade since Britain voted to leave the European Union. Inside Labour, whatever words are muttered…

Black in the day A new book claims William Shakespeare’s works were really written by a black woman and were…

In 416 BC in its war against Sparta, Athens instructed the fleet to break the small island of Melos’ alliance…

Class war Sir: Your leading article, ‘More in common’ (24 January), laments the ‘civil war’ between Reform and the Conservatives.…

I was intrigued to learn from the BBC Today programme on Tuesday that ‘buildings across the UK will be illuminated…

If Keir Starmer didn’t already understand Harold Macmillan’s warning about ‘events, dear boy, events’, he got a lesson on Saturday.…

In our online edition, Danny Kruger, who is a dear man and my former employee, attacks our editor, Daniel Finkelstein…

No matter how many jurisdictions discover the hard way that wealth taxes backfire, in California an initiative is collecting signatures…

They say you should never meet your heroes, a rule that is not always correct. But I did have a…

It’s a relief not to have been pressganged into joining the Prime Minister’s plane-load of business chiefs and reporters bound…

Most things that seemed like a good idea at the time eventually land somewhere between disaster and calamity. In Apple…

Crimes go unpunished while injustice is upheld and truth perverted. Such is the Mafia reality, according to the saturnine Sciascia

As the city descends into chaos and starvation, a ‘manager madam’ and desperate intruder clash in their efforts to keep their respective families alive

A fledgling female journalist fights hard to exonerate an impoverished woman accused of double murder

Soldier, duelist and frontier ranchman, the anti-Semitic adventurer brought cowboy-style politics to the streets of Paris as the Third Republic lurched from one crisis to another

Having joined SOE at the outbreak of war, young Tessa faces immense dangers, not all of which she can overcome

Between a father who designed abattoirs and a callous, unresponsive mother, Haddon is left depression-prone, taking a perverse pleasure in envisaging catastrophe

This Sydney-based novel explores friendship, love, betrayal and the highs and lows of parenthood

We are moving so far from anthropocentrism that even now we are postulating thinking bricks and a kind of global foam that extends beyond human exceptionalism

Smith seems to urge us to pay close attention to the horrors of today’s world. But can such a spectacularly plotless novel convey any meaningful message?

The act of rubbing objects together led to the discovery of fire, fuelling many of mankind’s most significant cultural achievements

It’s a tumultuous decade or so since The Night Manager burst onto our television screens and a while longer since…

Somebody obviously thought it a good idea that Emmylou Harris play her last ever Scottish show in a soulless sports…

The long overlooked staircase by Hogarth at St Bartholomew’s Hospital has been cleaned and restored in a £9.5 million scheme.…

‘You play Bach your way, and I’ll play it his way.’ That remark by the Polish harpsichordist Wanda Landowska is…

Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague dramatises the (chaotic) making of Breathless (1960), Jean-Luc Godard’s French New Wave classic. It’s a film…

Melvyn Bragg’s first ever intro to In Our Time in 1998 clocked in at 21 seconds. Misha Glenny, meanwhile, took…

Safe Haven is a history play by Chris Bowers who worked for the Foreign Office and later for the UN…

I don’t know how it got past the increasingly powerful ‘All Germans were evil Nazis’ censors but Amazon has released…

Grade: A It’s a cliché that the best Spanish music was written by Frenchmen but it’s mostly true nonetheless, and…

In the days of the Belle Époque and Jazz Age, a trip to Paris would have included, for the discerning…

Did the Prime Minister drag his heels on new firearms legislation because he feared it might impact his cabinet? Until…

As Australia continues to suffer from the evil of antisemitism a phrase (or three phrases if you count the different…

Seven unclued lights (two of two words) precede and four follow a word defined by the title and all are…

Competition 3434 was prompted by the 400th anniversary of the retrospectively controversial purchase of Manhattan island by the Dutchman Peter…

The ‘Wimbledon of Chess’ is underway in the Netherlands. Meanwhile in Spain, there’s a gaming industry expo. Magnus Carlsen and…

In the House of Lords on Monday there was a short discussion, prompted by a question from an ex-Labour minister,…

Q. Last year I decided to share a flat with an old, but not very close, friend from school. It…

There are two great American bars in London. One is perfect to escape the winter chill, the other to embrace…

The dog café had a pretty pink sign describing its many services and I stood outside it mesmerised as I…

Dante’s Beach, Ravenna We were en route to the junk shop in search of a pair of robust tongs for…

Even though Christmas is over, I’ve been thinking about the season just gone. There is a tradition of complaining about…