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Covid meets Project Fear

Green commitments achieve nothing

The ABC is yet again mired in confusion and misinformation

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The timeless brilliance of Pont of Punch

Armenians don’t want a deal – they want resolution

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He may have lost – but his agenda is here to stay

The Covid vaccine still has a long way to go

Muslim thinkers offer a remedy to fundamentalism

Where is the support for his fight against Islamism?

Britain’s best hope isn’t a vaccine – it’s millions of daily tests

Cancelled procedures Sir: Your leader (‘A lockdown too far’, 7 November) suggests that the Prime Minister should have shown ‘leadership’…

So Humpty Trumpty has had his great fall. But how democratic or logical was his election in the first place…

Shot in the arm Global stock markets reached a new high after pharmaceutical firm Pfizer announced a vaccine it is…

It now looks increasingly likely that lockdown will end on 2 December, after all. The decision to impose further restrictions…

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, is a useful stop for journalists looking for some rust-belt Americana not too far from New York. The…

Home Pfizer and BioNTech announced a vaccine against Covid-19 of 90 per cent efficacy from two injections three weeks apart.…

FTSE indices soared as the Biden Bounce met vaccine euphoria, underpinned by the Bank of England’s announcement of another £150…

As Democrats’ colossal collective sigh of relief drives wind turbines even over in Britain, let’s not lose sight of the…

Having only recently entered the House of Lords, I must tread with caution, but I had always understood that it…

Elections teach us nothing. Instead, each tribe dredges succour from the minutiae, proving that they had been right all along.…

The first full week of the new national lockdown had the potential to be very difficult for Boris Johnson. Although…

There’s a lot I don’t know about care home visits during this pandemic. I don’t know how straightforward it would…

One day someone is going to have to write the definitive study of Wikipedia’s influence on letters. What, after all,…

An old, cynical adage holds that ‘if all you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail’. I remembered…

Masculinity, we are often told, is in crisis. The narrator of Men and Apparitions, Professor Ezekiel (Zeke) Stark, both studies…

It was said that Reginald Maudling, as home secretary, once boarded a plane in Belfast and immediately requested a stiff…

Do you think your mother slept with T.S. Eliot? That was the question I needed to ask the 98-year-old in…

Dan Pearson is one of the finest of all British garden designers, blessed with sensitivity, a wonderful eye, deep plant…

Liberal values are under attack on two flanks. Those of us who think extensive freedom of expression, universal human rights…

Reinhold Messner, the first person to climb all 14 of the planet’s peaks higher than 8,000 metres, is probably the…

The great Spanish artist Francisco Goya was born in Zaragoza in 1746, the son of a gilder whose livelihood was…

David Crane If nothing else, this has been a good time for catch-up. Theodor Fontane’s Effi Briest (translated by Walter…

It’s a strange prospect for strange times, the young violinist Freya Franzen on the stage of Melbourne’s Concert Hall playing…

In February 1922, Princess Mary, the only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary, was married in the first…

Praising the grand old maestri of the podium isn’t a good look, as they say on Twitter. Conductors such as…

Tanya Gold on the journalists who scripted the golden age of Hollywood

Death of England: Delroy is a companion piece to Death of England, which ran in February at the NT and…

Ballet lovers driven square-eyed by a drip feed of livestreaming and archive footage have been pining for the patter of…

Grade: B– Uh-oh. Might have to be careful here, pull my punches a little bit. The editor is a big…

Since technology is developing at such light-speed pace, why does it feel so strangely slow? There is a sense that…

‘We have to stop it now!’ says Princess Margaret (Helena Bonham Carter), smoking another cigarette, obviously. She’s talking about the…

This documentary about Billie Holiday is transfixing. Not just because it’s about Billie Holiday — I am not into jazz…

Simon Collins A British newspaper once ran a TV ad extolling the virtues of journalistic objectivity. ‘Point of view’, which…

I own a few chess books that could serve as a murder weapon, but none so hefty as Chess: 5334…

In Competition No. 3174 you were invited to write a poem in which each line begins with the letters A…

At least in London, midwinter spring has not been entirely vanquished, and the trees are still a couple of strong…

Panic at the country feed store. Panic in the horse and pony aisle. I wonder to myself: could life ever…

We bums find ourselves sought after at this time of year to lend a hand with the olive harvest. So…

Ten symmetrically placed unclued lights are synonyms for the warning ‘WATCH OUT’. First prize Andy Wallace, Ash Green, CoventryRunners-upCaroline Arms,…

New York Election night parties are usually dreadful affairs, with the idiot box blaring and hysterical listeners screaming out the…

First the company report. Readers who invested a tenner on the nose each time our Twelve to Follow for the…

In 1989 I answered my first mobile phone call on Oxford Street using a brick-sized Motorola borrowed from work. Several…

It’s been a busy week of bridge. First came the Lady Milne, the women’s home internationals. As the host nation,…

Boris Johnson, the Telegraphsuggested last week, is understood to have a personal interest in rewilding, ‘recently gifting his father beavers…

White to play. Mista–Kloza, Poland 1955 (supposedly). Which move does White play to force a quick checkmate? Answers should be…

Q. I have a delightful young goddaughter who, thanks to the virus, I have not seen since last year. Her…

When Humza Yousaf, the SNP’s cabinet secretary for justice, announced that his new Hate Crime Bill would remove the ‘dwelling…

Unclued lights are defined by extra words in ten clues and are anagrams of ten of a kind. Elsewhere, ignore…