Yet again this magazine has proven uniquely prescient in its warnings and its advice, a claim that regular subscribers will…

Limited time to save humanity from its bureaucrats

Calvin’s henchmen had nothing on our premiers

Fossil fuels aren’t disappearing any time soon

Money for nothing in Dan’s wasteland

The Canadian election campaign is not going as the Liberals hoped

Is the West really prepared for an influx of angry young male Afghan refugees?

The Spirit of Australia is no longer welcome in its homeland

New Zealand needs to look to Switzerland

It worked for the Taliban

You can’t (and probably shouldn’t) design a treehouse. Treehouses should grow organically, in every sense: they must be made of…

Can cartoons be both funny – and diverse?

Why politicians are competing to bribe the affluent

How the left thought they were right to fight the war on terror

Third jabs need to be rolled out right away

The Taliban Cultural Commission sounds a contradiction in terms but for all foreign journalists it’s the first stop in the…

The hell of London’s ‘American’ candy stores

Why I’m helping survivors tell their stories

How ‘Xi Jinping Thought’ took over China’s classrooms

Out of practice Sir: GPs are not ‘hiding behind their telephones’ (Leading article, 4 September). In-person appointments are the core…

Home Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, announced a new tax in the Commons branded a ‘health and social care levy’.…

For 18 months, the government has held power over us as never before in peacetime. The emergency powers granted by…

A ‘State of the World’ report warns that a third of the world’s wild tree species are threatened with extinction.…

Floating vote Voters in St Petersburg were presented with three candidates all calling themselves Boris Vishnevsky, with two believed to…

In football, you are always stronger in numbers. With a shared focus, people from different cultures, nationalities, races, sexual orientations,…

Late-breaking exam results: many of the City’s top fund managers have failed a vital test of ‘stewardship’ — defined for…

In idle chatter the other evening, somebody pooh-poohed champagne. He was a brave soul because in certain circles — and…

The announcement of a tax increase for both workers and employers to fund more spending on health and social care…

There is a rather sweet moment in the middle of each Roy ‘Chubby’ Brown show where, after some magnificently obscene…

It gets lost in the many creative purposes successive American administrations invented to justify remaining in Afghanistan, but the primary…

They rather like bad boys, the French. Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894-1961) is one, in a tradition that stretches from François Villon…

The word ‘magisterial’ consistently attaches itself to the work of David Kynaston. His eye-wateringly exhaustive four-volume history of the Old…

The famous photographic portrait by Karsh of Winston Churchill as wartime prime minster personifies heroic defiance and grim determination. His…

It is often said that the best political diaries are written by those who dwell in the foothills of power.…

The millennial generation of Irish novelists lays great store by loving relationships. One of the encomia on the cover of…

Ahmed Shah Massoud was described as ‘the Afghan who won the Cold War’. While famous in France (he was educated…

After leaving college more than two decades ago, Evan Osnos landed a job on the Exponent Telegram, one of two…

Ruth, the narrator of Susie Boyt’s seventh novel, is both the child of a single mother and a single mother…

Even against our better judgment we tend to imbue our sporting heroes with characteristics they may not possess. This can…

The Amur is the eighth or tenth longest river in the world, depending on whom you believe. The veteran travel…

Many would say the commute was one thing they didn’t miss in lockdown. But when Lauren Elkin was ‘yanked out…

What is life if not a quest to find one’s calling while massaging the narrative along the way? This question…

A magnificent new history of the Caucasus earns Peter Frankopan’s highest praise

And so Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge is Melbourne’s musical-in- waiting. The show that can only go on when we’re 80…

Deep breath. Here goes. Winsome Pinnock’s new play about Turner opens with one of the most confusing and illogical scenes…

‘The world is hell, and men are both the tormented souls and the devils within it.’ This was the cheery…

In my bedroom there is a small lidded laundry basket. It was designed by Geoffrey Lusty for Lloyd Loom, a…

Translating the story of Jimmy Savile to stage or screen is a creative minefield, says Jonathan Maitland, who knows from first-hand experience

Arthur Sullivan knew better than to mess with a winning formula. ‘Cox and Box, based on J. Maddison Morton’s farce…

Herself is an intensely powerful film about domestic violence that isn’t Nil By Mouth or The Killer Inside Me or…

Let me give you a free piece of relationship advice: just break up. If it’s more work than pleasure, if…

Do fish have feelings? And if they do, does anybody care? RSPCA Australia’s willingness to lease their logo to salmon…

The New York Times has chosen a word to describe what happens to people under Covid restrictions: ‘languishing’. Under lockdown…

Is flexible working better or worse for productivity? What is the correct blend of remote and office work? Billions of…

In the New Year I was introduced to a couple who had fled Britain impulsively on New Year’s Eve with…

‘I’ve got COPD,’ said a friend of mine, not elaborating at all as I stared at him waiting for him…

The end to the European Championships Qualifier — from an English perspective — was one of the most dramatic ever…

Q. My granddaughter Jane has been asked on a date to the Wolseley by George (both pseudonyms). Although she finds…

Last weekend, Rolling Stone ran a story about an interview an emergency room doctor had given to a local news…

In London, the weather is a gentle sashaying mockery. An Indian summer reminds us of the sullen apology of summer…

When Peter Quennell was sent down from Oxford for consorting with a woman called Cara (by Evelyn Waugh’s account), he…

Gstaad Mercedes Benz heir Mick Flick and I have been friends for more than half a century. We both married…

In Competition No. 3215, you were -invited to supply a poem about Geronimo the alpaca. The camelid’s fate was finally…

The unclued lights are the names of the six principal presenters of COUNTDOWN (hence 5 4 3 2 1 as…

The unclued Across lights are of a kind when preceded by one word, as are the unclued Down lights (one…

White to play. Harvey–Roberson, Northumbria Masters 2021. Black’s last move, 37…Kf7-e7 looked plausible, but walked into a clever tactic. What…

My daydreams at the moment follow a predictable theme. I am on holiday somewhere balmy, with a carafe of cold…

At the beginning of August, seeing his outstanding performance at the Fide World Cup in Sochi, I wrote that Ravi…