So, apparently the climate wars aren’t over quite yet. Thank goodness for that! That’s not us rekindling the battle, by…

I feel obliged to bring to the notice of those who do not live in Victoria that at least in…

Lightweight Libs threw in the towel

Politics-boom! Dollars-boom! Technology-boom!....

Conservatives can never win by aping the Teals

Europe’s Green car wars and what they mean for us

Let’s call the activists’ bluff

Time to treat Mother Earth like we would any other elderly patient

Where are Franciscan missionaries when you need them?

US justice system corrupted

Can he face them down?

It’s a fabulous combination: travelling by train and sleeping. And the good news is that the concept of sleeper trains…

The mob lunged towards me, screeching and grabbing, and I knew that if I fell I would never get up.…

Georgia’s exiled former defence minister on Putin, poisonings and EU membership

Getting a job after 50 is easier said than done

The joy of an old man pub

The death of the American city

The new Attenborough series needs challenging

The World Athletics Council has taken the decisive step of announcing that transgender women who underwent male puberty before their…

Care of children Sir: At last people, namely Harriet Sergeant (‘The ghost children’, 25 March) and Rod Liddle (‘Childcare: an…

After the narrow victory of the Brexit campaign in 2016, it was often said that the result would lead to…

Have you had your fourth Covid booster jab yet? They are being very quiet about it these days. I used…

After years of blissful indifference, finally I’m scared of AI. I’ve been complacent, slept soundly beside my husband as he…

They say that death and taxes are the only certainties in life. But I would add a couple more things…

Historian Chris Wallace, who currently holds a professorship at the Faculty of Business, Government and Law at the University of…

In the wake of their father’s death, a brother and sister recall the violent domestic dramas of their childhood

A merciless ETA terrorist is in hiding in Spain – but which of three seemingly innocent women is she?

Timothy Garton Ash weighs the consequences of the push towards a single currency, the West’s dependence for energy on Russia, and Brexit, among much else

Under the much-vaunted new secularism, Muslims were treated as second-class citizens at best - and were often the victims of mass pogroms

The buzz of modernity has plagued us since the Industrial Revolution – but even Thoreau tired of practising his ‘habit of attention’ at Walden Pond

Death permeates these stories, as Nell – a stand-in for Atwood – mourns the loss of her beloved partner Tig

A complex novel explores the ways we try to understand a world that isn’t good or fair or causal or even comprehensible

If opera is acting, concealing the self behind a character, where does that leave the singer in the concert hall, caught between ventriloquist and dummy, wonders Ian Bostridge

From the mass panic of William the Conqueror’s to the drunken mayhem of Victoria’s, few coronations have passed off entirely peacefully

Traditional fairy tales are transposed to a modern setting and given a thrilling – often terrifying – twist

Zones of exception, freed from ordinary forms of regulation, are proliferating in bewildering varieties. Kwasi Kwarteng considers the consequences for democracy

What a weird world we inhabit when it comes to popular culture or indeed to any culture high or low.…

I have a theory that many great artists’ strength is a product of their weakness. The flaw of the relentlessly…

Recently in these pages, ruminating on the ghastly Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, I wrote that music does not…

Most of us are familiar with the notion of writer’s block, that paralysis of invention induced by the appalling sight…

There are some films that you know will be quality simply by the actors who have agreed to be in…

Accidental Death of an Anarchist has been performed all over the world with varying degrees of success. Written by Dario…

English National Opera has arrived at the Dead City, and who, before Christmas, would have given odds that this new…

Getting the words ‘impressionism’ and ‘modern art’ into one exhibition title is a stroke of marketing genius on the part…

Christine L. Corton on how fog gripped the Victorian imagination

Climate catastrophe? Follow the money Because of the importance of the claim that CO2 has the potential to cause considerable…

Australian journalist Miranda Devine (currently working on the New York Post) has drawn our attention to a new word ‘totting’.…

Darjeeling Express lives at the top of Kingly Court, just off Carnaby Street, which was once the world-famous embodiment of…

In Competition No. 3292, you were invited  to provide a poem to mark the death of Betty Boothroyd. The formidable…

It’s been quite a while since we celebrated any of Sharron Davies’s considerable achievements in the pool – well, a…

For me, one of the joys of going abroad is bargaining with the local sellers. They name an extortionate price;…

For a while now, we’ve been living through a renaissance of classical British cooking: a whole host of restaurants have…

The pony grabbed the bag of carrots and ran across the field with it in her mouth, tail in the…

The morning after we were wedded, I went to hospital in Marseille. The oncologist wanted to assess the pain level…