Although much has been written about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s interview with Oprah Winfrey (perhaps Jerry Springer would…

The MeToo-ists are out to get their man

Our elites fail to understand that the problem is them

The US presidential election system is not fit for purpose

Celebrating GDP growth is a nonsense

Labor jettisons the heavy baggage

Nobody knows the troubles she’s seen

Sadly, we now know where Scott Morrison stands

We are being misled about indigenous history

The ABC must be reformed - here’s how

There’s an unwritten rule in newspaper journalism that any story about egrets must have one of two headlines. Either ‘no…

 Tokyo This week was the tenth anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in…

The dangers of televising lobby briefings

The return of the bitch is long overdue

How I’d write Covid: The Thriller

Why the Polish community doesn’t want the vaccine

How Dante fell foul of the Chinese Communist party

Why is it racist to wonder what skin colour your child will have?

The unfair demonisation of a duchess

Harry and Meghan’s brand of revenge

Home The world was agog, some in tears, some in synchronised toe-curling, as the Duchess of Sussex and her husband…

Safe spaces, diversity quotas, gender-neutral pronouns, culturally relative facts, heteronormative hegemony. Are my right-on credentials right on enough? Am I…

Since the start of this year, cases of Covid-19 have been in decline. Hospital admissions have fallen 80 per cent…

Spinning plates Sir: Kate Andrews is right to highlight the looming risk of inflation (‘Rishi’s nightmare’, 6 March), but to…

Good for the goose The government indicated that it will ban foie gras, out of animal welfare concerns. While it…

Ancient Greeks were not slow to express their enthusiasm for taking revenge. Observing the recent proceedings in the Scottish parliament,…

International travellers running the gauntlet of English airports must already test negative for Covid before the flight, and on return…

This column generally takes a sceptical view of financial novelties and gimmicks. So my antennae have twitched in recent days…

I have been slow in the uptake. When I saw the Duchess of Sussex complain in her interview clips about…

I have just applied to fly around the moon. My chances of being selected are slim, but is it impossible?…

Caroline Rose Giuliani, the daughter of the former mayor of New York, Rudy, has been talking to the press about…

Every politician likes to say that they don’t pay attention to opinion polls. In my experience, this is almost universally…

When we think of those lurching moments last spring when it became clear that much of the world, not just…

Edward St Aubyn’s ‘Patrick Melrose’ novels were loosely autobiographical renderings of the author’s harrowing, rarefied, drug-sozzled existence. Despite their subject…

A father and his estranged 20-year-old daughter set off across France, sharing the driver’s cabin of a long-haul truck. This…

A truth that ought to be universally acknowledged is that Chinese food, while much loved, is underappreciated. China certainly has…

Bird migration was once one of those unassailable mysteries that had baffled humankind since Aristotle. A strange hypothesis, genuinely advanced…

On a shard of paper, some time in the bleak mid-1930s, F. Scott Fitzgerald incorporated a favourite line from one…

For a novel set partly in a Soho brothel, Hot Stew is an oddly bloodless affair. Tawdry characters drift in…

As the planet gets more and more ravaged, the mind can begin to glaze over at the cumulative general statistics…

Even Edward Said would not have claimed to be ‘the 20th century’s most celebrated intellectual’. But neither was he ‘Professor of Terror’, says Justin Marozzi

The arts world in general —and with it theatre in particular— is opening up. Not only is the Botticelli to…

It is hard to imagine a city with a richer cultural history than Dresden or a better place for a…

Twitter was awash with mockery last week, after Adam Levine, the singer of the American group Maroon 5, was interviewed…

The Finborough’s new show is a love story with the male partner absent. Two women, one Irish and one American,…

Well, this a bit awkward. A fortnight ago, in my last TV column, I confidently asserted that, despite the involvement…

Musa Mayer talks to Hermione Eyre about her father Philip Guston’s cancellation and her fear that he will for ever be known as the artist who painted the Ku Klux Klan

Rachmaninov’s First Symphony begins with a snarl, and gets angrier. A menacing skirl from the woodwinds, a triple-fortissimo blast from…

For my 13th birthday in 1995 I requested — and got — my own ‘line’. This meant that I could…

Barack Obama wants the world to know how much he loves singing. In his new podcast, which takes the form…

Judas and the Black Messiah is a biopic about Black Panther leader Fred Hampton, but it’s not your regular biopic…

Although it probably won’t, the recent kerfuffle over the brilliant works of Dr Seuss and other creators of children’s books…

Is it just me, or have others noticed that heterosexual couples have lost access to the words ‘husband’ and ‘wife’?…

White to play and mate in two moves. Composed by Philip Hamilton Williams, Birmingham Post, 1890. Answers should be emailed…

Some friends claim to be making marks on the wall to count the days until liberation. Ah, the forgotten delights…

Q. I hesitate to bring you this problem, but I suspect it is not that uncommon. Early in our very…

I was once asked by a previous editor of the Timeshow to increase sales of the paper. I was slightly…

If I ever again accompany my husband to a medical conference in Spain, and want to tell my hosts that…

‘Have you had your jab, Margery?’ said one Surrey lady to another in the queue for take-away coffee at the…

According to a charity called Fight For Sight, 38 per cent of people who’ve been using screens more during lockdown…

Around the time that poor M. Macron was casting televised aspersions on the AstraZeneca jab, I was offered one by…

Laikipia In one of Kenya farmer Karen Blixen’s short stories, a character says: ‘I know of a cure for everything:…

Six unclued lights (three of two words) are of a kind, associated with the 16’s 11s, and overseen by 28.…

In the 21st century, which country has won more international chess Olympiads than any other? Russia? USA? China? None of…

Gstaad I was very sad to read of Rupert Hambro’s death. I didn’t know him well, but first met him…

Unclued lights are from the ‘Looking Glass’ poem Jabberwocky. First prize Alison Peck, Mathry, PembrokeshireRunners-up Patricia Gibbs, Barrow upon Soar,…

In Competition No. 3189 you were invited to submit a poem about a favourite smell. This challenge certainly seemed to…

One benefit of lockdown is that there is much more time for reading. My personal favourite bridge book is Play…