Warning, satire: In international news this week, the Israeli government has announced it plans to send a special envoy to…

Australia’s rich cultural history is being deliberately destroyed

Put up a fight, please

Just don’t mention the vaccines, OK?

The key question

However worthy, this scheme is out of control on costings

Stop the crazy talk

Just stop protests

Gender re-education no laughing matter

Will this latest piece of digital wizardry simply make us lonelier?

Judge them in office

We all know that increasing the diversity of your boardroom increases the success of your company because politicians, business leaders…

I don’t like talking about abortion and so rarely do. I have never written about it before. I am uncomfortable…

Nye Bevan did not make old bones, and perhaps that’s just as well. According to a recent British Social Attitudes…

This time last year, Volodymyr Zelensky was touring western capitals, calling for weapons and money to launch a decisive summer…

Dixmont, Yonne Last summer, Emmanuel Macron lashed out at France’s constitution because it prevents him from running for a third…

In my experience, men offer this infuriating comeback when challenged about the continuing exclusion of women from clubs such as…

Some time soon we will have to say farewell to our most distant emissary – the Voyager 1 spacecraft. After…

For a certain type of Barbour-clad middle-aged man, the best time of year is late summer, and the arrival of…

Good trade-off Sir: I applaud your excellent editorial (‘Trading in Falsehoods’, 6 April) – a succinct and insightful essay on…

Meet market Who uses the gay dating app Grindr? – The site claims 27m users worldwide, 80.5% of whom identify…

The Sentencing Council, consisting of various legal authorities, has told judges and magistrates to consider, when sentencing the young, their…

The publication this week of the Cass Review into gender-identity services for young people marks a welcome return to reason…

Home The review by Dr Hilary Cass of gender-identity services for people under 18 called for an end to prescribing…

Eastern Europe is the graveyard of empires. Rome failed on the Danube, Napoleon on the Dnieper. The epic struggle between…

My favourite opinion polls are those which elicit enormous shock in the population for stating something everybody knew for ages,…

There are many misunderstandings about Israel in the international media, but one of the most bewildering is the suggestion that…

When more than two-thirds of the American electorate doesn’t want to vote for either major party’s nominee, a third party…

The logic behind Rishi Sunak’s decision to make David Cameron foreign secretary was that he would be a ‘big beast’…

Adam Dyster has gone to work for the shadow Defra secretary Steve Reed. I admit this is not an appointment…

Can flexible working get the best out of what a ministerial press release calls ‘hardworking Brits’ – or is it…

Spare a thought for us political commentators. We stare into the void between now and a (presumed) decisive Labour victory…

Thomas tells her tale of a hellish honeymoon on a Greek island with the cunning of an Aegean sorceress, keeping her readers pleasurably unsettled and alert

Fertile fields and spectacular sea stacks are matched by an extraordinarily rich, dramatic history. No wonder the islands have been so celebrated for centuries

Caroline Crampton describes the real agonies of people obsessed with their fragility, revealing that her own hypochondria stems from a childhood cancer diagnosis

Based on the 19th-century ‘voyageur’ Alexis de Martin, Carlucci’s young protagonist is befriended by kindly strangers. But what are their true motives?

Tom Burgis makes this painfully clear in his account of the long hounding of the former MP Charlotte Leslie by the vengeful millionaire Mohamed Amersi

Claudia de Rham explores the true nature of this fundamental force as she struggles against received wisdom to get a new theory of ‘massive gravity’ recognised

The seaborne invasion went so smoothly, it might have been thought plain-sailing. But that was far from the truth. Nick Hewitt describes the meticulous forethought that preceded it

From a series of mysterious objects – ‘flower flutes’, inscriptions, ‘little black things like beetles’ wing cases’ – Graeme Lawson conjures the haunting melodies of the past

Examples of 18th-century graffiti range from romantic rhymes scratched on windowpanes to the haunting marks of political prisoners incised on dungeon walls

With its vast cast and twisting plot, O’Hagan’s complex novel feels as busy and noisy as the north London thoroughfare of its title

Bumptious, uncouth and the despair of his schoolmasters, Linnaeus died almost forgotten. Yet he established a system of taxonomy that we still use two centuries later

It’s uncanny sometimes how it works. There we were last Saturday in Hamer Hall to hear what Stephen Layton from…

When the trailer for Sam Taylor-Johnson’s biopic of Amy Winehouse, Back to Black, first landed, her fans were gracious. ‘This,’…

One of the joys of listening to archive BBC interviews with pop stars is the chance to hear long-discarded hipster…

If you’ve spent any time gawping at Netflix over the past half-decade or so, you’ll already know that human culture…

On the train home from the Royal Festival Hall I learned of the death of Michael Tanner, who wrote this…

On the same night Underworld played the second of two shows at the Usher Hall, next door at the Traverse…

It’s curious to consider what a venerable old thing noise music is. That this most singularly untameable of musics –…

For centuries no one knew who it was by or even what it was of. The picture that had hung…

The Divine Mrs S is a backstage satire set in the year 1800, when flouncy costumes and elaborate English prose…

It’s been a long time since the beer garden of the iconic Oaks Hotel in Sydney’s Neutral Bay lost all…

We all know what it means when someone is said to have been ‘thrown under the bus’ by their colleagues…

I have had three recent conversations, all lively if unrelated – and all well lubricated. The first concerned Anglo-Saxon England…

The novelty of living in a place where a policeman called Ambrose lives in a house whose door you can…

I’ve been busy planning a trip to New Zealand and Australia. I’ll be gone for about five weeks from mid-June,…

The psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who died last month aged 90, was perhaps most famous for his dictum that: ‘Nothing in…

Q. Our son, 17, who is generally a credit to us, has started eating with his mouth open. It’s the…

Why do people say: ‘You might very well think that; I couldn’t possibly comment’? Are they using it as they…

I’ve been waiting for what feels like decades to make a contract by means of an intra-finesse. And not just…

Every year at the beginning of April, I tell myself I must top up my Isa before the 5 April…