‘I will f—king find you. Hunt you down. Gas you. Kill you. Teach you a lesson. Your (sic) f—king Jew.…

How the Libs can win the next election

Forget 9/11. This was the entire Vietnam war in one day

Jimbo stumbles (again)

Giving money to Gaza is not the Christian thing to do

Renewables teeter as Turnbull’s white elephant is stuck in a financial bog

The Voice saleswoman should not be let anywhere near Yarralumla

Remembrance Day reminders

There’s lots we could have learned from her

Elites first exposed here, before US and UK

Armistice Day is meant to be a moment of solemn national unity. Yet this year it is expected to coincide…

Two stories are emerging from the Covid Inquiry: one that it wants to tell and one that it does not.…

  Jerusalem   On Tuesday, I was driving down to an Israeli army headquarters on the border with Gaza as…

Away from Gaza, things are getting worse in the West Bank. I’ve received many messages from Palestinian friends raging at…

Stephen Fry is a national treasure whom half the nation can’t stand. He drops his façade of loveability mid-chortle as…

Cockney is dead, but so is the King’s English. Long live Standard Southern British English. The Cockney Barbara Windsor yelling…

Every year I lay a wreath a week early, because Blyth, my nearest town, was a submarine port. Submariners were…

This week English Heritage has put up a blue plaque to the novelist Ronald Firbank, and I know, from 40…

Human trafficking is a multi-billion-pound global industry. It is fuelled by the desperation of migrants seeking a better life and…

Ill-judged Sir: Professor Carl Henegan’s authoritative demolition of the Covid Inquiry (‘The Covid whitewash’, 4 November) prompts the question of…

The first King’s Speech for more than 70 years was a festival of the expected: the royal reading of a…

Generation Z were the first to grow up attached to smartphones. They spent their adolescence bathed in screen-light and now…

There is a stage direction in The Glass Menagerie in which Tennessee Williams describes a tune that will recur through…

This novel is the ninth book of the satirical series concerning Grafton Everest, a rambunctious, overweight, fictional academic who, as…

Among many delights, the Greco-Persian wars are brought to thrilling new life and a truly bizarre Alaskan folk tale is retold

For the past century, a ‘property-owning democracy’ has been envisaged as a kind of magic cure for social ills. But high prices now mean the opposite of emancipation for many

Kassia St Clair tells the gripping story of how competitors drove 15,000 km across mountains, desert and flooded rivers to prove the practicality of the early motor car

Posing as social services employees, two female ex-cons talk their way into the homes of elderly widows in order to drug them and steal their valuables

Everything blends into everything else as an Aboriginal knight errant sets out on a quest to save his scorched native bushlands

‘I used to run upstairs all the time,’ sixtysomething Marcus Berkmann recalls wistfully, as, midway through life’s journey, he wakes to find himself in a dark wood

Six astronauts at the International Space Station observe the ravages on Mother Earth, but remain hopeful that mankind will find another parent planet

The comedian found himself out of work and out of his marriage when he challenged the transgender ideology that to be a man or women is about choosing an identity

Spiders, owls, elephants and dragons appear alongside dog-headed men and tusked women in a wealth of texts explaining the world in the most vivid terms then available

The French writer does not accept that all incomers to his country can be truly ‘French’, and considers the dramatic change of population an unprecedented disaster

Even her enemies considered Marcia Williams the prime minister’s ‘political wife’, and the real force in the Labour party from the mid-1960s to Wilson’s resignation

Recommendations from Mary Beard, Richard Ingrams, Sam Leith, Francis Wheen, Michela Wrong, William Dalrymple and many more

Miss Saigon may on the face of it seem like an odd choice of musical for Opera Australia to revive…

There is a (possibly apocryphal) story about William Morris, where he spends most of his time in Paris inside the…

Ben Duke belongs to a class of younger choreographers who have decided to flout the convention that dancers should remain…

Branagh vs Lear. The big fixture in theatreland ends in a win for Shakespeare’s knotty and intractable script which usually…

In 1633, British merchants travelling east were issued with a royal command from Charles I: ‘As the king has considered…

Bodies is another of those ‘ingenious’ time-travel apocalypse mash-ups so tricksy and convoluted that by the time the ending comes…

Dream Scenario is a high-concept dark comedy about celebrity and cancel culture. It stars our old pal Nicolas Cage who,…

A violinist friend in the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra used to talk about an orchestra’s ‘muscle memory’; a collective…

In May 1966, Bob Dylan toured the UK with The Band, minus drummer Levon Helm, and abrasively pulled the plug…

There’s always been something at once girlish and steely about Joni Mitchell, the stellar Canadian whom Rolling Stone called ‘one…

Robert Jackman on the rise of Christian cinema

It’s almost a cliché to say that 15 March, 2019 was a black day in New Zealand’s history; in fact…

I suggest the right word for Hamas is ‘barbarians’. It was the Greeks who coined this word when savage, uncivilised…

The Old War Office (bad acronym OWO) on Whitehall is now a Raffles hotel: you can stay in Winston Churchill’s…

Q. Wealthy ex-pat friends came to stay and, despite being attended to assiduously by our major domo, they left without…

It’s a tricky old time for cricket. The collapse of England’s World Cup white-ballers – and how they have managed…

Many of my conservative friends are beginning to catastrophise about the future of Britain in light of the pro-Palestinian protests…

Let me be clear: this week’s recipe is not a speedy little number. You can’t knock up a French onion…