There is a disturbing current of vilification running throughout the Australian feminist movement. Even as Australians proudly celebrated International Women’s…

In taking action for defamation Treasurer Joe Hockey is breaking a great Parliamentary convention, according to Mark Latham. He was…

The leaks that sank the tax havens

After I fell off my chair again, it was time to get ready for the launch of the Intergenerational Report…

The Intergenerational Report offers the government a glimpse into their (and our) future

Despite being a pin-up boy for the White Ribbon movement, I made the mistake of attempting to explain male violence

The art of Shane Cotton draws on his Maori and European roots

For a society obsessed with paedophilia, we're disturbingly comfortable with sexualising childhood

Hillary’s presidential race will be over an obstacle course

The shadow health secretary on NHS scandals, Hillsborough and his party's leadership

It’s clearly not about animal welfare. But then it never was

Civilised people balance the short-term interest of one generation against the values enshrined in the past, and the right of future generations to share that past

When my Employment Support Allowance was stopped, I was angry and upset. But looking back, it was a turning point in my life

Procrastination used to be an honest business – cleaning the bath, putting CDs back in their cases. Now we have Google

Yes, he’s unpopular – except with the people who can see the results

It is not easy to be young, British and Muslim. Since the atrocities of 9/11 and 7/7, the media has…

The National Gallery gave me a new perspective on a familiar city

If state schools are being pushed away from the arts, how did 76,000 of their pupils end up taking drama GCSE last year?

Home Philip Hammond, the Foreign Secretary, said that ‘a huge burden of responsibility’ lay with those who acted as apologists…

Plus: Disaster in the rugby – and a lucky escape from the cricket

Plus: What police do with CCTV; most popular royal burial grounds

Environmentalists such as Theophrastus and Plato were well ahead of them

From ‘News of the Week’, The Spectator, 13 March 1915: We are glad to note that officers in uniform have been…

Praise indeed Sir: Congratulations on the best arguments, articles and editorial I have personally witnessed so far in the history…

And if as a result they have a sick sense of humour and a seething contempt for authority, then all well and good

Banned from parks, banned from beaches, and now poisoned at Crufts. It seems like Britain has stopped loving dogs

In this election campaign, no one wants to mention the bear in the room

Plus: Why Rona Fairhead should leave HSBC (but stay at the Beeb); and a charming alternative to automation at Bond Street station

William Dalrymple’s review of The Tears of the Rajas by Ferdinand Mount reminds us that the British empire was erected on the dead bodies of hundreds of thousands of its Indian subjects

A review of Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes by Virginia Nicholson reveals that it wasn’t just men blocking female emancipation: women themselves were equally to blame

A review of One of Us by Åsne Seierstad reveals a lonely misfit set on a murderous mission to purify the Nordic race

Reviewing the Ancient Art of Growing Old by Tom Payne, Richard Ingrams remembers sweating blood at school translating the smug, self-satisfied Cicero

A review of Curtain Call by Anthony Quinn celebrates London’s gay 1930s society where much is shrouded in secrecy

Keith Miller is impressed by the latest first novels - but deplores the way publishers oversell them

A review of Ruth Scurr’s biography of John Aubrey tells how the distinguished scholar and antiquarian, friend of Pepys and Hobbes, died in penury and was buried in an unmarked grave

Nicky Haslam admires the thoroughly extraordinary Mary Portas, monarch of the malls

Fish become humans, humans fish in the fairy-tale world of David Vann’s poetic novel, Aquarium

The short story has long been a staple of Australian literature but has had something of a rough ride in…

As the current V&A exhibition, Savage Beauty, should show, the British bad boy of fashion really did have imagination and vision

Plus: a Serpentine Gallery survey of Leon Golub’s large scale compositions on the atrocities of war that are occasionally memorable but often show a lack of skill

The end is so sentimental and so Hollywood you'd be far better off reading the original Irène Némirovsky novel

Plus: a new Mugabe drama at the Gate Theatre that, amazingly, doesn’t offer a single piece of data about the play’s subject

But there’s dynamism and excitement aplenty in The English Concert’s performance of Hercules at the Barbican

Plus: after a month away without radio, Kate Chisholm didn’t expect to hear that half of Ambridge had been destroyed

Plus: BBC2’s new sitcom, Nurse, suggests that Paul Whitehouse is a bit of a genius

Nowadays we don’t often look to modern Greece for inspiration except for its physical beauty and the charm of its…

The glories of Ancient Greece are a long way from the present mess

He was the man who coined the phrase ‘P-p-p pick up a Penguin!’

Well, I want the racing industry to rescue me from this horse

Hunting survives in defiance of the will of Parliament and of the people

Why do men always yell at the television or keep up a running commentary while watching sport? My husband does…

The boat race for the brain, as it has become known, took place at the Royal Automobile Club, Pall Mall,…

Black to play. This is from James-Sugden, -Cambridge 1972, as featured last week. It’s a win by the Cambridge player…

In Competition No. 2888 you were invited to submit a poem in the style of a well-known poet, the first…

Seven unclued lights (one hyphened) are 23: 7A + 17 + 40 + 5 + 6 + 31 = 36.…

The unclued lights can be arranged to give: ‘I decided to sell my Hoover … well, it was just collecting…

Admittedly it’s early days, but watch this space

We judge ideas more on who they annoy than on what they do

Plus: An avocado dessert recipe and another way of seeing off handsy hosts

The Great Hector was well worthy of a glass or two

Advice for a reader in her quest for a refund