Nothing better symbolises the dismal future that Labor and the Greens are preparing for Australia than the warning in a…

Looking back over the last political year, I could not help but reflect that we certainly send some interesting representatives…

Albanese and Chalmers delight in doing a deceitful dance

The suburban church is passing from the scene

Nothing excites the PM like telling you he’s spending your money

Underpriced risk could batter the share market this year

The real killer of woke corporate America

We’re indebted to Timbo

Trudeau should be allowed to prorogue the Canadian parliament

Now is not the time to make concessions to the axis of autocrats

A royal commission into antisemitism

On 23 February, I will vote for the Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party in the German general election. As someone…

Things used to cost approximately what you expected them to cost. Now, the price of almost every item is eye-wateringly,…

Isis are back. In fact, to borrow Gerry Adams’s remark about the IRA, they never went away. Now, they are…

How did the depraved cruelty of Britain’s grooming gangs go on for so long, so openly and with such seeming…

It is always interesting to watch a dam burst. In the past week, as Elon Musk and other prominent Americans…

We are nearing the 50th anniversary, next month, of Margaret Thatcher becoming leader of the Conservative party. Only one other…

Luke ‘The Nuke’ Littler, born two weeks after the first iPhone was unveiled, stormed the Professional Darts Corporation world championships…

The man who walked up the stairs was the embodiment of the cartoon image of a paedophile. Grey, thinning hair, a…

The cape is having a moment thanks to the Highland wardrobe of Claudia Winkleman, who is currently presenting The Traitors…

Growing problem Sir: The first leading article of the year (‘Growing apart’, 4 January) points to the gap in economic…

I am now well into my second pregnancy. Having conceived through IVF the first time, we were fortunate to have…

Home Responding to a rejection by Jess Phillips, the safeguarding minister, of calls for a government inquiry into historical child…

The Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson wants schools to teach oracy, i.e. the ability to present orally a clear and cogent…

The debate surrounding the sexual exploitation of thousands of children over decades, which has re-ignited this week, should act as…

What does it mean, in practice, to say that reporting child abuse should be mandatory? It sounds appropriately severe, but…

Donald Trump isn’t back in the White House yet, but already his victory is being felt across the world. Greenland…

I can see one possible benefit of having a full inquiry into the almost exclusively Muslim grooming gangs who raped…

Twin studies are one of the most useful exercises in scientific inquiry. Take two biologically identical children who are brought…

January is the ideal month for gaining a sense of perspective. I’m increasingly convinced that the ‘climate emergency’ is another…

I was intending to write one of those ‘Ten tips to change your life’ lists that fill so many column…

Shudderings from a subway extension in Harlem causes a tenement building to collapse, killing six people and leading to many missing in this cinematic thriller

Intimate, earthy and uninhibited, Pushkin’s letters, collected together, read like a novel and give an encyclopaedic view of 19th-century Russian life

John Hatt’s latest selection of the travel writer’s journalism includes articles on Castro’s Havana, the Yemen of the Imams, Batista’s Cuba, French Indo-China and Neapolitan men of honour

Spanning three generations of Sicilian women, this family saga of honour, deception and class politics is also a study in morality and the petty ways in which it is eroded

Girma’s semi-autobiographical thriller follows the efforts of the Marxist Mengistu to crush secessionist Eritrea in the bloody aftermath of Haile Selassie’s downfall

In a poignant story reminiscent of ‘The Little Match Girl’, two Norwegian children try to dodge social services by selling wreaths and Christmas trees when their father fails to provide for them

The Norsemen were settlers as well as raiders, and by the 860s had built up a ‘great heathen army’ to conquer and colonise much of Britain and the Continent

The vast seat of Bourbon power also doubled as a laboratory for experiments in astronomy, hydraulics, engineering, ballooning, medicine, mathematics and cartography

A higher form of love than romance or conjugal felicity was what Socrates offered in his dialogues, says Agnes Callard

The Household Tales only attained their standing after the brothers’ death, with the unification of Germany and the decades of nationalism that led to catastrophe

It’s funny the preconceptions you have about the Christmas/New Year period. I hadn’t anticipated seeing Juror #2 the new Clint…

Don Bradman, the greatest cricketer of all time, was once asked if he reckoned he could have maintained his batting…

Liszt’s compositions tend to have descriptive titles – ‘Wild Chase’; ‘Dreams of Love’ – whereas Chopin avoided titles. Thomas Wentworth…

Maria is a film by Pablo Larrain, who appears to have a soft spot for the psychodramas of legendary women…

The Natural History Museum is one of the most beautiful buildings in London, but its gardens have long been a…

When first considering architects for the new Louvre in 1981, Emile Biasini, the project’s head, liked that I.M. Pei was…

Farming Today airs at an undignified hour each morning on Radio 4. On the few occasions I’ve caught it live…

The Invention of Love opens with death. Tom Stoppard’s play about A.E. Housman starts on the banks of the Styx,…

It’s hardly surprising that Doris Day’s jaunty homage to Marcus Aurelius ‘Que sera, sera’ was one of the 1956’s best-selling…

At the start of each year, Lake Superior State University publishes a list of ‘Banished Words.’ These are the words…

One of my favourite cartoons shows a couple sitting in luxury at the front of a plane, the wife peeking…

Our house was suddenly shrouded in a thick, grey mass of cloud and it felt like a sea fog had…

It is extraordinary to remember. When I was a small boy in Scotland, Christmas Day was not a holiday. My…

‘To share is to do’, as no Latin proverb dared to suggest. The 2024 Fide World Blitz championship, held in…

How do you live with yourself when 179 air passengers are burned alive on a South Korean runway, and you’ve…

January kitchens are my favourite. This isn’t anything against Christmas – I love the spice, the frenzy, the ritual of…

Q. We live in a harmonious and social community in Berkshire and early last year our fun-loving neighbours invited us…

So farewell then, Justin Trudeau, last of the lockdown tyrants. Or should that be the last of the democratically elected…