The Albanese government this week appointed Jillian Segal AO as its Special Envoy to Combat anti-Semitism. That’s where the good…

Victoria’s public health services are crumbling

Then and now

The elites keep getting it wrong

Will it be Kamala?

UK voters punish the Tories but don’t endorse Labour

Does high immigration pose a security threat?

Don’t ignore the plebs

As in the UK, so too in Australia

What price do we pay for pro-Palestine protests?

Albanese government stabs Israel in the back

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There is no doubt that the new government (and in particular the prisons minister, James Timpson) is faced with a…

I love to complain about my phone. It has ruined everything, from friendships to childhood to my memory. But if…

When Keir Starmer’s Labour party gathered on Monday to celebrate their election victory, the difficulty was finding a big enough…

Once we entered Downing Street a No. 10 protocol adviser took Vic upstairs to show her the facilities in the private…

‘Do NOT look Lulu in the eye. Keep your voice low and soft and ignore her barking. Do NOT make…

My friend Andy is getting married. It’s about time – he and his girlfriend have a one-year-old daughter. He wants…

Magpies have long been thought to be birds of omen. I am not superstitious. Yet during the election campaign I…

Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, appointed several ministers who are not MPs, but will be created life peers.…

The Kremlin has denied it targeted the Kyiv children’s hospital that was struck by a missile on Monday. It was…

True conservatism Sir: Douglas Murray claims that the Conservative party ‘will need to have some people who are actually right-wing’…

‘They knocked down our old house in three hours,’ says a friend who has embarked on what he says is…

We have entered a new dark age. I’m not just referring to the situation in Britain since last week. Though…

The principal concerns of the electors vary rather more widely than the pollsters and pundits would suggest. One man in…

Rishi Sunak performed a mea culpa when his shadow cabinet convened on Monday, taking full responsibility for the election loss.…

Sir Keir Starmer may be our first atheist prime minister, but his manner in parliament resembles that of what, in…

Robert Jenrick, once immigration minister and still, just, MP for Newark, said on Sunday that the Tories lost not because…

The craze for photographic cartes de visite that swept Victorian Britain was further boosted by the Queen’s own enthusiasm for the format

In short essays and poems, the Scottish makar explores our connections with nature, always mindful of the insignificance of human time compared to the deep time of stones

With politicians increasingly sabotaging the machinery of government worldwide, our only protection lies in the civil service, judiciary, police and security services

An investigation of the codes, disguises and invisible inks used by plotters and spymasters captures the paranoia of an age when secret messages could be hidden anywhere

A rollicking family saga set on Long Island revolves around the kidnapping of a wealthy businessman and the effects of it on his wife and children

Robyn Hitchcock describes how his musical tastes were formed listening, aged 14, to Dylan, the Beatles, Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix on the school gramophone at Winchester

A young policewoman returns to her native Gloucestershire, hoping to solve a mystery connected to a terrible past accident there

‘Why do we do what we do to each other?’ he asks, citing among many atrocities the dropping of the atom bomb and the genocide of aboriginal Tasmanians

Matthew Lockwood traces Britain’s long history as a haven for refugees and argues that the nation has benefitted greatly over the centuries as a result

Even the most liberal-minded reader might be surprised by the amount of crack cocaine, LSD, alcohol and casual sex the poet indulged over the course of 50 years

Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? culminates the great stretch of American drama that runs from Tennessee Williams’ The…

A partly subtitled show set in Istanbul might sound like a brave departure for a BBC Sunday night crime drama.…

Fly Me to the Moon is a romantic comedy starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum set during the 1960s space…

Hang out with both trainspotters and opera buffs and you’ll soon notice that opera buffs are by far the more…

Alma Mater is a topical melodrama set on a university campus. The new principal, Jo, (amusingly played by Justine Mitchell)…

On the back of the British £20 note, J.M.W. Turner appears against the backdrop of his most iconic image. Voted…

It’s four years since I gave up opera criticism. The pandemic had struck, I had hit a significant birthday, and…

As graduation ceremonies go, the Royal Ballet School’s annual matinée ranks among the most spectacular. It takes place at the…

I’ve just watched Senator Fatima Payman’s performative ‘I quit but not really, I’m moving to the crossbenches’ media conference. It…

Angry people keep chanting ‘Free Palestine’ on our streets. They shout that ‘Palestine’ should stretch from the Jordan River to…

In Spain, you can eat all day – and we did. Earlier in the summer, I spent two days in…

Talk about raging against the dying of the light: Andy Murray and President Biden both. Murray because he is no…

Q. We live in the countryside, where the door is always open. Last week when it was sunny we had…

Friends in Calais invited me to their baby’s birthday party. He’s a year old. They suggested an overnight stay and…

The girl lay slumped against a wall in front of me and someone ran to push the emergency button. I…

Politicians pretty well have to be gamblers. You give up a promising career in, say, dentistry, teaching or accountancy for…

I am evangelical about scones as a gateway bake – they are the perfect entry point for the nervous baker.…

I’m just coming to the end of a four-week speaking tour Down Under and have spotted some worrying signs of…