In the wee small hours before the dawn of the Independence Day holiday weekend, presumably when it hoped no one…

Since my column confessing to a lifetime of white supremacy and worshipping at the altar of colonialism, many readers have…

Yes, black lives do matter. But let’s have some honesty… The greatest failing of the Black Lives Matter movement in…

Australia is on course to self-destruct One of the many benefits in having a big bash to celebrate turning 90…

Racism is being re-engineered

Scott Morrison is righting the wrongs of Turnbull & Pyne

Dan gets belted on the road to China

How the elites sold us to the Chinese communists

Is France’s latest prime minister just another fall guy?

 Austin My first Independence Day in the US for many years. Usually I’d be in Paris avoiding Texas heat. My…

The Prime Minister recently blamed the delay in the resumption of amateur cricket on the ball itself, calling it ‘a…

How strong was the scientific advice behind the lockdown?

After Hong Kong, is Taiwan China’s next target?

Donald Trump is fighting back against America’s historical revisionists

Britain’s dependence on quantitative easing is alarming

Big spending. Huge debts. What can possibly go wrong?

Police relations Sir: As a former Met Police officer, with a similar background to Kevin Hurley, I was surprised how…

Home Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced measures intended to stimulate the economy. Under a £111 million scheme,…

It is hardly a profound observation to say that the government has not functioned as well as it might have…

‘Musician’ is how I described myself to the nice Latvian lady interviewing me the other week for an ONS survey…

Price of protest Greenpeace was fined £80,000 for defying a court order and occupying an oil rig in the North…

There are far more Chinese students in British universities than there are from the entire Commonwealth. Many universities have been…

Displaying the pristine neutrality that has made her such a popular figure, Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis apparently tweeted the following last…

We self-critical British should never forget that other nations are pretty crazy too. I write this from Andalusia, Spain; and…

Coronavirus is deadlier for the old than the young. But for the young, it is economically devastating. A third of…

The government’s £1.57 billion lifeline for the cultural sector was bigger than most practitioners were expecting — and drew a…

When I was about ten, on return home from church I ate a peach, the juice of which dribbled down…

The trouble with political memoirs is that it’s very hard to get the balance right between the book-length version of…

There aren’t many authors as generous to their readers as David Mitchell. Ever since Ghostwritten in 1999, he’s specialised in…

Research has always been susceptible to fraud, but regulations are now much tighter than they were, says David Wootton

One of my long-held beliefs is that evolutionary biology should be taught extensively in schools. There may be some objections…

Greg Woolf didn’t know his book would come out during an urban crisis. Thanks to coronavirus, Venice’s population, for example,…

There is a particular sub-genre of books which are witty and erudite, comic and serious and often of a bibliophilic…

The lockdown we have been enduring has at times felt drawn from the pages of a children’s book. The eerie…

Recently I touched on the subject of evaluating works of art prompted by what seemed to me rather an empty…

She could have been one of our great-aunts. She was from that remarkable generation of educated, unmarried women who chose…

Richard Bratby on Britain’s oldest and ballsiest orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, which has taken on everyone from gang leaders to Derek Hatton

Grade: B+ Neil Young has been mining his own past very profitably for a long time now, disinterring a seemingly…

The RSC’s 2014 version of Much Ado is breathtaking to look at. Sets, lighting and costumes are exquisitely done, even…

Some cinemas have reopened, with the rest to follow by the end of the month, thankfully. But the big, hotly…

Not long after the pubs, big galleries have all started to reopen, like flowers unfolding, one by one. The timing…

Sophie Haigney on the weird and wonderful world of hotel carpets

Britain’s choirs are facing oblivion. Yet they’re also terrified of returning. One story explains why. Picture this innocent choral-society scene…

Like so many of us in these troubled times, I am worried about the family statues. The topple-mob cannot be…

I just read a piece by Scott McConnell in the American Conservative, a magazine we co-founded 18 years ago. He…

There is no sight so compelling as one that would be hidden. I am fascinated by the Streisand effect, named…

‘Are you seriously telling me you would rather meet up on Zoom than in reality?’ I asked a friend as…

Unclued lights (three of two words, two hyphened) have something in common, verifiable in Brewer. Across 4 Everybody agreed to…

White to play. Giri–Nepomniachtchi, Chessable Masters 2020. Giri has sacrificed a knight to lure the black king forward. Which move…

The seventeen entries clued by definition only required removal of the abbreviation BR ( = Britain), in keeping with the…

In Competition No. 3156 you were invited to supply a piece of verse or prose on the subject of schadenfreude,…

It wasn’t so much a Derby victory this year as an act of grand larceny. Aidan O’Brien isn’t just a…

What goes through a world-class player’s mind when he or she stops to think for an age during a hand?…

Bernafay Wood B&B, Somme, France I came up on the TGV yesterday from the Midi to northern France and it…

The woodpecker jinked across the lawn like an especially cunning partridge. Its goal was a skilfully constructed bird table with…

Q. During lockdown I have done my level best to assist with household chores. Last week, while my wife was…

It is 17 years since we began to hear McDonald’s: ‘I’m lovin’ it.’ This was always annoying, but most of…

Layla Moran, the Lib Dems’ education spokesman, has written to Gavin Williamson urging him to do something about ‘systemic racism’…

This week’s Wiki Man may read a bit oddly. You see, I haven’t ‘written’ it at all; I’ve dictated it…