It has taken three decades for The Castle chooks to finally come home to roost. The 1997 film, one of…

‘Euthanasia should be rejected on one unifying principle: the people who are most at risk are the most vulnerable, and…

It was always a myth

Truth-telling cannot just be a one-way street

Dutton is in dire straits

Courting disaster in 2023

What hope is there in the United States of Pharma?

The Palace punishes a loyal aide to appease an agenda-driven activist

Fashion flirts with depravity

Will Nigel Farage emerge as Britain’s real conservative leader?

Labor is rigging the referendum

Don’t expect a united Ireland any time soon

The Windsors are warring over their womenfolk

What I learnt co-writing Matt Hancock’s book

How Rachel Reeves intends to keep the Tories on the back foot

Is Iran at a turning point?

Can the Lords survive?

Home The RMT union decided to add a couple of rail strikes just before and after Christmas to those planned.…

During the Tory leadership contest this summer, it was frequently said that whoever won would face the most politically difficult…

Sir Keir Starmer says the House of Lords is ‘indefensible’. It is an odd thing to say about an institution…

I was impressed with the passion Sir Keir Starmer managed to whip up within himself when presenting Gordon Brown’s interminable…

Though it was sensible for Lady Susan Hussey to resign, I do find the chorus of disapproval that has greeted…

What is the most hubristic line ever written? Against some very stiff competition I would say it is that famous…

Over the years, I’ve received my share of green-ink author’s mail. You know, from folks who’ve discovered an exciting variety…

Stefan Hertmans is dismayed to discover that his home was once owned by a Flemish collaborator with the SS

But does Matthew Hollis understand the poem as well he understands the manual action of a Corona?

Putin’s new army looked lean and mean, but old, inherent weaknesses persisted: over-rigid commanders, demoralised soldiers and shaky logistics

There are wolves, bats, 101 dogs and Maggie O’Farrell’s Nouka – an adorable black ball of fluff with big green eyes

Her attack on the council’s record under Conservative leadership betrays her failure to grasp the fundamentals of local government finance

Tony Tetro fooled many connoisseurs with his canvases – aged by mixing coffee and cigarette butts or baking them in a pizza oven

If the early days lacked glamour, they certainly provided the best anecdotes, according to a new oral history

Someone told me the new TV streamer The English had a weird resemblance to Cormac McCarthy who has just published…

Only boring people are bored by Ravel’s Boléro. True, the composer – the slyest of wits – left his share…

‘Psst! Someone’s coming!’ the skinny man with the ragged breeches and the bandaged jaw warns his fat companion out of…

Like so many of history’s great catastrophes, the story begins with an eccentric Victorian Englishman. Francis Galton was a maker…

These days, everyone who was knocking around a few decades ago predicted the internet. Marshall McLuhan famously predicted the internet…

Crude eccentricities damage the potential brilliance of Othello at the National. Some of the visual gestures seem to have been…

Graham Hancock’s Ancient Apocalypse has been described by the Guardian as ‘the most dangerous show on Netflix’. What? More dangerous…

Oliver Basciano talks to Maria Alyokhina of Pussy Riot about Putin-baiting, Ukraine and western hypocrisy

‘Where’s the sausage?’ I asked my wife as we lined up at the local primary school to exercise our democratic…

We are being constantly warned that economic doom, gloom and disaster are about to hit – because of the impact…

In Competition No. 3278, you were invited to supply a well-known writer’s response to the question what makes the perfect…

English grandmaster John Nunn was the top seed in the over-65 section at the World Senior Championship, held in Italy last…

‘This dish is very you,’ my husband says, as I serve up 650g of melted, boozy cheese to the two…

Mriya lives at the end of Old Brompton Road where South Kensington turns into Earl’s Court and, as if by…

In early 2020 my family and I were due to fly home from visiting a friend in Oman when the…

According to a quote in a recent article by the environment editor of the Times, I’m ‘the most prominent UK…

‘Then I got taken hostage in Iran,’ said the lady sitting next to me in the hairdresser’s as she was…

Sometimes, when the weather is fine, Treena calls up the stairs: ‘Why don’t you sit out on the terrace and…

New York It’s party time in the Bagel, and also the last week I’ll be spending in this unrefined place.…