The latest revelations out of Britain regarding the grotesque abuse of power during Covid make for very disturbing reading. As…

Today’s Greens make their predecessors look sensible

So are the courts involved with the Voice or not?

Foreign aid is bad policy

Cartoonist rubs himself out playing the race hate card

Our governments are undoing our greatest strength

We were right. They were abusing their power during Covid. And how!

Covid, immunology and medicine

Australia wasn’t immune

Liars will never be believed

The fight for the Republican party nomination

How much longer has the cabinet secretary got?

Matt Hancock’s WhatsApp messages will be a historical goldmine

Michael Caine and the pursuit of happiness

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The growing power of Sweden’s street gangs

Meet the architect accused of building Putin’s $1 billion property

It is hard to deny that the government must take tough action on the issue of migrants arriving in Britain…

Friends like these… Sir: I much admire Peter Frankopan as a historian but his article ‘Is Putin winning?’ (4 March)…

Rishi Sunak started the year with a speech announcing his five priorities. That was quickly followed by Keir Starmer, who…

I am at a bit of a loss to understand the hoo-ha about the civil servant Sue Gray. She has…

I have never met Enver Solomon, the chief executive of the Refugee Council, but I have not the least doubt…

Look, I realise you don’t want to read this column. I’m unenthusiastic about writing it. For most of us, any…

‘Coad. Coad.’ I wracked my brain. Distant bells began to tinkle as I turned the name over. As though performing…

When a radical feminist publisher suggested I review some of their books, I wasn’t quite sure I would enjoy the…

The Brazilian journalist Eliane Brum moves from São Paulo to ‘reforest’ herself in the Amazon, and slowly gains the trust of a wary, isolated tribal people

A French widower’s horror at his elder son’s involvement with the Front National grows ever deeper as violence escalates

After landing in Surat in 1615, Sir Thomas Roe was studiously ignored, and months passed before he was finally received by the Mughal emperor

Whether it was from hurt, spite or genuine fascist sympathies, his surprise at his family’s response simply confirms his stupidity

When a midwife in Nagyrév started doling out arsenic in 1911, dozens more women followed suit, until the death toll became impossible to ignore

New York’s Atelier 17 became a creative hub in the 1940s, where émigré Surrealists shared ideas with artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell

A marine biologist attempts to explore a newly discovered mid-Atlantic trench, but finds its destructive power both attracts and repels all who approach it

Ten women, on average, are killed there every day – and Cristina Rivera Garza’s investigation of her sister’s murder is met with the usual ‘silence of impunity’

Viv Groskop shares Sara Wheeler’s fears that modern sensibilities are fatally threatening a centuries-old genre

How many people have sat watching something stream (or whatever) on television and found themsleves incapable of turning it off…

Hector Berlioz dismissed Handel as ‘that tub of pork and beer’ but it wasn’t always like that. Picture a younger,…

Back in 1990, Grandpa from The Simpsons wrote a letter of protest to TV-makers. ‘I am disgusted with the way…

Years ago, I asked Robert Plant what he felt about the world’s love of ‘Stairway to Heaven’. He said he…

Rupert Goold’s new show, Women, Beware the Devil, has great costumes, sumptuous sets and an intriguing chessboard stage like a…

One day in October 1966 I came home from school and found a large man stripped to the waist, attacking…

Champions is an underdog sports movie starring Woody Harrelson as a baseball coach forced to take on a team with…

Ukraine must stop demolishing its public statues, says Yevheniia Moliar

In March 1675 the Keeper of His Majesty’s Lodgings at Greenwich received an order for ‘Three pairs of shutters for…

The now universally acknowledged failure of vaccines and masks to reduce your chances of spreading, contracting or dying from Covid…

The Church of England is considering scrapping centuries of Christian teaching to give God gender-neutral pronouns. The church has confirmed…

‘Come dance with me in Ireland.’ That has always struck me as an enchanting prospect, though a recent Hibernian venture…

Even though I fly a lot, I retain the notion that air travel should be treated as a special occasion…

The unclued lights display a common feature, different in each example. Elsewhere, ignore an apostrophe. Across 1 Tracks birds (5)…

I’ve been gripped by the Telegraph’s Lockdown Files. The 100,000 WhatsApp messages on Matt Hancock’s phone, handed to the paper…

In Competition No. 3289, you were invited to provide an extract from a politically correct version of a work by…

‘We don’t take cash,’ said the boy behind the counter in Pret after I tried to hand him a £5…

I can see why rock stars and other impetuous celebrity types accidentally top themselves with drug cocktails. When you are…