Three things can be safely said about the entire Brittany Higgins affair. Firstly, the average punter has no idea where…

An alliance of philanthropic foundations has declared their support for the Voice: a combined $17-million pledge from the philanthropic sector…

The Victorian budget: A for politics, F for economics

Take a leaf from overseas

How government intervention has returned to cripple the West

The Voice’s fatal flaw the campaigners don’t mention

We should have had a convention like we did in 1998

Doing time for hate speech crimes in the Sunshine State?

The Voice will split many of our nation’s families by race

History will not be kind to the WA Covid approach

Not a modest change, admits Albanese

The Prince’s crusade against the press

The rise of fake libraries

Is it time for Britain to leave the WHO?

Women are essential to the mafia’s survival

How an endangered horse was brought back from the brink

Is anywhere safe for Kagame’s critics?

The trouble with returning the Benin Bronzes

In his meeting with Joe Biden this week, Rishi Sunak proposed a research centre and regulatory body for artificial intelligence…

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It is 18 years since the last Colditz drama on British television, which apparently means we need a new one.…

If we rule out the notion that people have ‘gendered souls’ at odds with their biological sex – and we…

When a sex therapist arranges for his clients’ sessions to be secretly recorded, there are life-changing consequences for two women involved

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Tiffany Francis-Baker explores the many ways in which our countryside has been shaped by the horse over the centuries

In a profoundly moving family memoir, Daniel Finkelstein describes the miracle by which his mother, as a child, was rescued from the hell of Belsen

Murray’s immersive, beautifully written mega-tome about a family in a small town in Ireland is as funny as it is deeply disturbing

The beleaguered monarch cuts a sad figure at the opening of David Carpenter’s second volume of biography – in contrast to his brilliant arch-enemy Simon de Montfort

Having retired from parliament in 2010, Mullin has less insider knowledge than before, but the political one-liners in his latest diaries are still highly entertaining

Patrick Barkham pays tribute to the much-missed nature writer, whose core response to the call of the wild animated everything he did

Hugh Pearman examines a wide range of building types apart from houses, including museums, theatres, schools, shopping malls, palaces and places of worship

Calling themselves the Bee Gees spelt trouble from the start for the very disparate Gibb brothers, says Craig Brown

It would be wrong to belittle the Rembrandt exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria because the emphasis is on…

A puzzle at Hampstead Theatre. Literally, a brain teaser. Its new production, Re-member Me, is a one-man show written and…

One of the most intriguing piano concertos of the late 19th century is unknown to the public – and no…

Imagine if you had the power always to tell whether or not someone was lying. You’d have it made, wouldn’t…

Rob Grant releases his debut album, Lost at Sea, this week. A 69-year-old millionaire and former ad man, furniture exec…

Are you supposed to laugh at the end of Don Giovanni? Audiences often do, and they did at the end…

Chevalier is a biopic of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, whom you’ve probably never heard of, as I hadn’t. He…

Welcome back to Room 101, which has returned to the radio – after nearly 30 years on TV – and…

By the 1800s, the mechanical clock had become a status symbol for wealthy Chinese. The first arrived with Jesuit missionaries…

Jonathan Ruffer calls for the return to Britain of the Tudor tapestry that proclaims the birth of the Church of England

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It is an exciting moment when I discover a new word – and this time it’s a word that focuses…

In Competition No. 3302, you were invited to compose a dating app profile for a writer of your choice. To…

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Last month I went to Lord Frost’s superb lecture for the Global Warming Policy Foundation about the harm net zero…

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The mouse has been eating his way through the medicine cabinet to the extent that I am really quite frightened…