Exactly two years and eleven months ago the cover of this magazine warned that the election the week before of…

My Voice prediction: I’ll have a hangover

How did it get this far?

The Voice? Listen to Bess and Jacinta Price

Can you hear me?

Superannuation is yet again under direct attack

Our enemies are seizing the day

Unravelling the long history of ‘why they hate the Jews’

A vile crowd cheers the pure evil of Hamas

Time to uproot and destroy the terrorists

How the Voice could make Canberra all-powerful

What Iran gains from provoking Israel

What I learned from going blind

What happens now?

A report from the Kfar Aza kibbutz

The state of New Hampshire doesn’t like rules

Sadiq Khan on anti-Semitism, Ulez and the upcoming electoral battle

A beginner’s guide to this country

It is remarkable that in his conference speech in Liverpool, Sir Keir Starmer hardly mentioned the government’s biggest failures. There…

‘I didn’t come into politics to raise taxes on working people,’ said the shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves in Liverpool this…

I had a brief exchange of messages with a British Muslim bloke on social media who had asked me, very…

The pattern of Israeli/Palestinian conflicts is always forced by coverage into what people call a ‘narrative arc’. The attacks are…

Life doesn’t always work out perfectly. You can make the wrong decisions. You can leave things too late. I wish,…

Seamus Heaney’s letters are full of energy and joie de vivre, but a darker note persists as the pressure of celebrity grows, says Roy Foster

The philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon is portrayed as a Vicar of Bray figure, all too ready to change allegiances in one of the most volatile periods of English history

It was a born of a specific macroclimate of low interest rates following the global financial crisis – but all that is melting away and, in the case of crypto, not before time

We can all sympathise with his desire to end bad, ugly new building, but too many of his own projects have had to be scrapped for functional reasons

Surprisingly for a novel riffing on Orwell’s dystopia, Julia is portrayed as a cheerful young woman uninterested in politics and believing in nothing at all

Each story circles around events both big and small, such as lunch at a simple trattoria, a birthday party, a summer holiday or the funeral of a friend

Now in her seventies, the travel writer returns to her childhood in Australia, and the trauma of losing her mother at the age of 11

When the mutilated corpse of a Ku Klux Klan member is discovered, the stability of an entire city is threatened in this tale of racial tension set beside the Mississippi

Alice Albinia reminds us that Orkney was a trading station long before London, Iona the epicentre of Celtic Christianity and Shetland a haven for liberal Udal law

Board games especially – dating back to at least 3000 BC – have never been idle entertainment but help boost the memory and teach valuable strategic skills

The novelist himself admitted that his infidelities ‘produced a duality and tension that became a necessary drug for my writing’

Unlike his attention-seeking brother David Stirling, Bill was a careful planner, responsible for many successful intelligence-gathering operations behind enemy lines

What a strange thing popular culture is. Back in the 1970s a lot of people might have affected to despise…

The unlovely Rose Theatre in Kingston is a modest three-storey eyesore. The concrete foyer looks like an exercise area on…

‘What advice would you give to your younger self?’ has become a popular question in interviews in recent years. It’s…

The intimate acoustic show can denote many things for an established artist. One is that, in the infamous euphemism coined…

The Miracle Club, which is about a group of Irish women who travel to Lourdes, has a magnificent cast –…

Big Brother is Nineteen Eighty-Four rewritten by Aldous Huxley. The detail that George Orwell got wrong is that far from…

‘She is a princess endowed with all the virtues of sex; long experience has taught her how to govern these…

VR ‘immersion’ is everywhere in London this autumn, but is it of any value? Stuart Jeffries takes the plunge

The plight of indigenous people is a scab on our nation which worsens with the picking. No one, not even…

Noel Pearson and others have insisted the Voice referendum ‘is not about race’. Does that make sense linguistically? The word…

There are cursed restaurants and cursed women, and this makes them no less interesting. One is Maxim’s in Paris, which…

A few weeks ago I was at the super-market juggling a toddler, several heavy bags and, it transpired, no pound…

Has there ever been an athlete, male or female, quite like Simone Biles, the greatest gymnast of all time? She…

In spite of my dodgy right hand – caused by an injury to my radial nerve – I decided to…

In Competition No. 3320 you were invited to submit a poem extolling Epicureanism over Stoicism or the other way round.…