Perhaps there exists one of those multi-syllable German words that roughly translates as ‘the bitter-sweet feeling one experiences when witnessing…

The trouble with focus-group conservatives

A tale of two Hawkes

Inflation? What inflation?

New Zealand’s politicians are ruining the country

Dutton can grab the ‘ethnic vote’ by fighting for conservative values

(Part 2 of my look at similarities between Covid and climate scepticism)

Mandatory vaccination faces a constitutional challenge

Don’t mention Australia’s excess mortality

Germany’s push for Russian ‘Lebensraum’

Labor celebrates the Platinum Jubilee with a constitutional abomination

Despite claims the property market is on the brink of a crash, one niche seems recession-proof: beach huts, barely bigger…

The rebels still plan to see off Boris

The danger and glory of the Isle of Man TT

A dispiriting week. Three months ago, skips arrived, into which were cast the detritus of a decade. Charity shops were…

The death of the dinner party

UK migrant policy has taken a dangerous new turn

Putin is holding Ukraine’s wheat exports to ransom

Is a return to power in Netanyahu’s grasp?

The real reason Africa can’t feed itself

Nostalgia wars are all the rage at the moment, but an extraordinary example appears to have been missed: a hammer…

Home Boris Johnson won a vote of confidence in him as prime minister among Conservative MPs by 211 votes to…

Saving general practice Sir: Regarding J. Meirion Thomas’s article (‘Medical emergency’, 4 June), traditional general practice continues to thrive in…

If you have a flight booked in the next few months, it’s time to worry. A new era of air…

I wish I could persuade certain cabinet ministers to put their money where their mouths are. Several times last month…

Curry in favour The BBC apologised after one of its guests for the Jubilee coverage, Len Goodman, revealed that his…

When Conservative prime ministers face a problem of logistics – from ambulance-driver shortages to border-force failures – there is a…

After the Jubilee dream of a lovely lost Britain, back to reality with a face-slap: the reality of the £8…

It was reported gleefully that Boris Johnson was booed as he entered St Paul’s Cathedral for the Jubilee Thanksgiving service…

‘Steady on, old chap. You’re a bit hard on the boy.’ The arm around my shoulder was that of Boris…

I may have broken the law this week, without having intended to, so great was my rush to return home.…

As a general rule, you should never talk about a film you haven’t seen. But The Lady of Heaven is…

‘Stop! Don’t fast-forward. I love this advert!’ How often do you say that? Considering that some commercial breaks run to…

David Profumo wonders whether newly created marine reserves can really reverse decades of devastation

Thomas Piketty, the French economist who shot to fame for writing a colossal work of economics that many people bought…

This book begins with Sheila Hancock wondering why she is being offered a damehood. I must say I slightly wondered…

It’s been a century since the heyday of the Bloomsbury group, and now Nino Strachey, a descendant of one of…

The great age of the Scottish autodidact must have ended a century ago, but it had a prodigious impact while…

This is not a book about tennis. Roger Federer appears early on, trailed by the obligatory question ‘When will he…

Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women established her as a narrator of female desire in all its complexity. Her study of three…

Anyone whose extreme youth was graced by the experience of watching the Nederlands Dans Theater is liable to be astonished…

All My Friends Hate Me is a film about a university reunion weekend and should you have an upcoming university…

One of the biggest talking points in pop these past couple of years has been how successful old musicians have…

Dictating to the Estate is a piece of community theatre that explains why Grenfell Tower went up in flames on…

Just how edgy and dangerous is Ricky Gervais? There is no one more edgy and dangerous, we learn from no…

Sam Kriss on the power of paleoart

In April, ten years after opening its gallery on the beach in Hastings, the Jerwood Foundation gifted the building to…

How much weight of plot can dance carry? Balanchine famously insisted that there are no mothers-in-law in ballet, and masters…

I have a confession to make. Despite voting for an Australian Republic in 1999, and despite making an ad arguing…

One of the perils of being a recipe writer is that people regularly ask me why I bother making things…

The unclued entries give the origins of elements 110-118 now named Darmstadtium, Roentgenium, Copernicium, Nihonium, Flerovium, Moscovium, Livermorium, Tennessine and…

Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, ‘El Ajedrecista’, died in prison in the United States on 31 May. The Colombian drug lord, a…

White to play and mate in 3. Composed by Sigmund Franz Josef Lehner, 1864. There are several ways to give…

Turkey has told the UN it wants tobe called Türkiye. Even when it is written in capitals, it would still…

Reading clockwise around the perimeter are six theme words, in random order, one of which starts in square 38. The…

‘It is vital that we see a return to face-to-face meetings to foster the dynamic collaboration that creates breakthrough ideas.’…

It was an extraordinary weekend. The various spectacles had something for all tastes: pageantry on Horse Guards; solemnity in St…

If I could ban one question ever being asked of me again it would be: ‘Are you on WhatsApp?’ I…

Q. As a mildly famous professional cook, I agreed to judge a children’s cake-baking competition at the summer fête of…

I recently spent a long weekend in Lillehammer in Norway. Apparently it’s very charming, but frankly I have no idea:…

‘But you look so well!’ How many times have I heard that lately. Kindly meant by most, but for a…

In the absence on her Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty, such an avid Derby attender in the past, and following…

For Christmas Caroline bought me a ‘Deluxe GiftExperience’ at Chapel Down, the UK’s leading winery. I say ‘me’, but it…

Southampton, Long Island These are peripatetic times for the poor little Greek boy, up to the Hamptons for some sun-seeking…

In Competition No. 3252, you were invited to write a letter of condolence on the mis-fortune of an acquaintance which,…