Prime Minister Scott Morrison this week called for unity within the ranks of the Coalition in order to get his…

Lockdown-sceptics have won the argument. Repeatedly.

Big business turns a blind eye to the plight of the Uyghurs

Green energy gives us higher prices but not much else

Djokovic’s expulsion was unscientific and an abuse of state power

But who will pull the plug?

Is Jacinda’s ‘well-being’ mantra basically sabotage?

Canada’s deplorables demand an end to Covid mandates

Universalising the Holocaust was a mistake

Better to blow up than to fade away?

Will Marxists be allowed to infiltrate everything?

All anglers are obsessive, but carp fishers are the most single-minded of all. They think nothing of spending weeks on…

Kenya’s flower growers have a busy time ahead

Could Valérie Pécresse become France’s first female president?

Don’t deny me my communion wine

Constant castigation is harming the police force

The secretive art of speechwriting

Who really controls the NHS?

Everything he now does is aimed at keeping Tory MPs onside

‘The mob’s going to want a chicken to kill and they won’t care much who it is,’ wrote John Steinbeck.…

Did Vladimir Putin ever intend to invade Ukraine? Or were his troop manoeuvres just a game — another test of…

Jesus wept Sir: Sam Dunning’s brilliant exposure of the corrupting links between Jesus College, Cambridge and the Chinese Communist party…

Home In a message for the 70th anniversary of her accession, the Queen said it was her sincere wish that…

No snow The pistes are covered with artificial snow and the hillsides are bare. Are the Winter Olympics a victim…

Yet again ‘doctors’ with no qualifications have been found advertising dodgy but expensive products and treatments, in this case, injections…

Almost everyone here that I’ve spoken to about it assumes that the opioid crisis in the United States won’t ever…

I was once at a terrific Shabbat dinner where late in the evening one of the other guests suddenly said:…

When news broke over the weekend that former minister Nick Gibb had become the 14th Tory MP to publicly call…

I was delighted to discover that the University of Bristol has been advising students how to address those who identify…

Annual profits of £9.5 billion at BP this week followed a £20 billion jackpot at Shell last week, thanks to…

In a lecture I recently gave to mark the approaching 40th anniversary of the Falklands War, one of the questions…

Despite prostrate Germany’s need for the return of its men, in Britain we didn’t release our prisoners of war until…

Philip Hensher describes how John Constable’s energy and imagination freed British art from the constraints of the past

‘The drawer beside Roberta’s bed contained remnants of other people’s fun’: so begins ‘Mathematics’, one of 11 stories in this…

The dust jacket of The Matter With Things quotes a large statement from an Oxford professor: ‘This is one of…

The long 1990s began with the Pixies album Surfer Rosa in 1989 and ended with the invasion of Iraq in…

No one boards an overladen dinghy and sets out across a choppy sea without very good reason. Laden into migrant…

‘One morning in late October 1988,’ begins TheLong Song of Tchaikovsky Street, ‘this dapper-looking guy from Leiden asked me if…

Does anyone know where we are in the world of arts and entertainment as Omicron advances, boosters abound, RATS are…

According to the makers, This is Going to Hurt is intended as ‘a love letter to the national health service’.…

As there are no stand-out films this week aside from Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of Death on the Nile — is…

I have heartburn. I probably have heartburn simply because both my parents also had a lot of heartburn, and I…

Even leaving aside its origins as prison slang, punk has always meant different things on either side of the Atlantic.…

A Number, by Caryl Churchill, is a sci-fi drama of impenetrable complexity. It’s set in a future society where cloning…

In September 1889, Vincent van Gogh sent his brother Theo a new self-portrait from the mental hospital at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. ‘You…

Daisy Dunn on the painters who celebrate shop fronts

The Royal Opera has come over all baroque. In the Linbury Theatre, they’re hosting Irish National Opera’s production of Vivaldi’s…

You’ve possibly heard of a ghastly woman called Patrisse Cullors. Her chief claim to fame is that she founded that…

I have coined a potentially useful new expression: comatose bias. We are told that one of the great problems in…

One tradition at the annual Gibraltar Masters is a high-spirited skittles match played in the evening between teams of men…

The centre could not hold, at least for Piggy’s. The drama of being the only greasy spoon in the West…

Well, there’s a surprise: Nike have cancelled their sponsorship of the Manchester United and England footballer Mason Greenwood, who is…

A policeman sent a colleague who was house-sitting for him a WhatsApp message: ‘Keep the pikeys out.’ He was sacked…

Nine unclued lights (all real words) are the names of 35A with one letter misprinted. The correct letters match those…

After most of Islington moved to Wales, it was foolish of me to think about following. But the need to…

You may not have heard of Sue Johnson but she could be the fairy godmother bridge needs right now. Not…

The six unclued lights and PLAYWRIGHTS (35/26) are FETCHER/Fletcher (13), CHILLER/Schiller (22), WESTER/Webster (34), MEANDER/Menander (38), PRIESTLY/Priestley (6) and COTEAU/Cocteau…

In Competition No. 3235, you were invited to invent a prequel to a well-known work of literature and supply an…

White to play and mate in two moves. Composed by Touw Hian Bwee, Schakend Nederland 1976. The first move allows…

It’s not every day that a future prime minister offers you a bribe, but that’s what happened to me 38…

Q. My partner’s work involves him seeing and talking to people all day, every day. I booked us on to…

Gstaad OK sport fans, have you been enjoying the concentration camp Olympics? I’m sure the Uighurs in the Chinese gulag…

Eighty yards west of the high terrace where I’ve sat for three weeks recuperating is a hospice built for Napoleon’s…

Malindi, the Indian Ocean When I lived in Jerusalem a long time ago, I often visited the Church of the…