Not since Howard Carter risked the curse of the Pharaohs to plunder the pyramids a hundred years ago this month…

The King who favours investment in fossil fuels

Providers and others are abusing this critical but costly service

An October Budget? What was he thinking?

Every Coalition political adviser needs to be fired

Is demonising the unvaccinated a health hazard?

No forgiveness, sorry. Not now, not ever.

Homeowners will be the big losers

Xi’s goons set up shop in the West

New Zealand is hurtling towards a dystopian future

Mid-term turning point

‘Oh, you’ll hate it, Julia. It’s men talking about cars all the time. Really, really boring. You drive all day,…

  Washington, D.C My local polling station is a Christian Brothers high school set amid football fields and parking lots.…

America’s only clear election winner is paranoia

The attempt to topple the Scottish Enlightenment

The evolution of ‘tactical’ nuclear war

How Ed Miliband became the power behind Starmer

The path to net zero is fraught with fallacy

It’s the Chancellor who will deliver next week’s Autumn Statement, but every-one knows it will have been ghost-written by Rishi…

Running the asylum Sir: The interview with Robert Buckland must be the most depressing article I have read for a…

Home Sir Gavin Williamson resigned from the cabinet as minister without portfolio following publication of texts he had sent (annoyed…

An advert for jobs in the prison service has fallen foul of the Advertising Standards Authority because it portrays an…

‘Reparations’, much bandied about at Cop27, is a dangerous word. It speaks of an admission of historic guilt, which no…

We throw around pejoratives such as ‘Idiot!’ a bit too carelessly, because then when we need to flag up genuinely…

Soon after Kwasi Kwarteng’s not-so-mini-Budget, I found myself in conversation with former aides to David Cameron and Boris Johnson respectively.…

Let nobody say Liz Truss achieved nothing in her mayfly days at Downing Street. She gave away the vast British…

In order to understand why all Cops (Conference of the Parties), including the one which began this week, are so…

Bullying appears to be suffering from inflation, like everything else. Certainly as an art form it seems to be in…

A further selection of recent books enjoyed by our regular reviewers – and a few that have disappointed them

James Stourton’s civilised arguments for preserving the great architecture of the past seem coupled with hostility to anything remotely novel or inventive

There’s advice on flower planting from celebrated garden designers and some astonishing facts about the life contained in a handful of healthy soil

The great artist and ornithologist who produced the magnificent Birds of America is now being shunned as a bird-slaughtering white supremacist

Quirky subjects also include inaccessible football grounds, the fear of blushing, Count Binface’s manifesto and pigeon cartoons from the New Yorker

Fatos Lubonja describes how he and countless others were condemned, on the flimsiest of pretexts, to languish for years in Albanian prisons

In 1915, Douglas Gillespie, aged 25, hoped that a tree-shaded ‘via sacra’ would one day mark the Western Front. Anthony Seldon helps to realise this a century later

Paul Fisher describes how Sargent became increasingly bored by society commissions and far preferred experimenting with watercolours or sketching the male anatomy

A portrait of his daughters by the 18th-century artist William Merrymount links two engaging family sagas set in the following centuries

The Order, a sinister group reminiscent of Argentina’s 1970s junta, make human sacrifices to the Darkness in return for the promise of eternal life

Simon Sebag-Montefiore’s overarching theme is unashamedly belligerent: imperialism, conquest, torture, madness, rape and execution

Does Milly Alcock find her characters inside herself or does she sketch them from outside? ‘It’s both,’ she says. ‘You…

Paul Weller releasing a collection of solo B-sides is cause for mild celebration. After all, the Jam were one of…

Non-fiction tells you what happened, fiction affirms the kinds of things that happen. According to Aristotle, anyway. So while journalism…

Jafar Panahi’s No Bears is, first and foremost, a wonderful film. More than this, you don’t need to know but…

During the 1964 debut of Carolee Schneemann’s ‘Meat Joy’ in Paris, a man in the audience tried to throttle the…

Gratingly edgy soundtrack, stomach-churning gore, torture, witchcraft, sadism and an indigestible title. The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself sounds…

The screw may twist and the rack may turn: the Tower of London, in Jo Davies’s new production of The…

Damian Thompson on King Charles III’s love of classical music

The UK Drill Project is a cabaret show that celebrates greed, criminality and drug-taking among black males in London. It…

We are constantly being told that the Uluru Statement is an invitation from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people…

Is ‘wellness’ really a word? It was coined in America (where else?) in the late 1950s to mean: ‘the state…

In Competition No. 3274, you were invited to supply toe-curling analogies. Bad writing has attracted some high-brow fans. J.R.R. Tolkien…

The dozen recommended in May left us with a decent profit

The Fidelity website is impenetrable to someone like me

Would it provide the mental lift-off necessary to enjoy our restaurant outing?

Meatloaf has some obstacles to overcome: it has an unprepossessing appearance, and an uninspiring, slightly off-putting name, which it shares…

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