In Labor’s telling, the decision by Japanese Toyota executives to pull the plug on their Australian operation is Tony Abbott’s…

A new class war is being mounted between those who feel for Schapelle Corby in her long ordeal in an…

There are some loose ends about the ABC controversy that should be tidied up. First, it is interesting that the…

Now that I’ve moved into the silly old duffer age bracket, a lot of invitations to film festivals, as a…

I watch yet another ugly Schapelle Corby scene on the television news: she’s being released from prison and bundled into…

Wolf Creek 2 marks a sea change in our film industry

Once upon a time, I liked the boats. I thought the absence of boats to be a lamentable prospect. I…

On the constitutional preamble and section 18C, the Attorney-General is not off to a good start

Gosh, has the competition ever been tougher?

Media moguls aren’t philosophers. So it’s time for philosophers to become media moguls

It has less prejudice than the countries where I’ve lived before – and more people taking offence

In defence of 'dirty old men'

A caution to my daughter that’s worth passing on

It's always meant to be the next Tuscany. It's still blessedly quiet

The need for cuts shouldn't let those in power wriggle out of their unglamorous responsibilities

Home Floods grew worse in the West Country. The village of Moorland, Somerset, was abandoned. Then the Thames flooded, from…

Plus: On being Channel 4's biggest hit, and on James Turner Street as a tourist attraction

Plus: poaching by numbers, homes on flood plains, and the best-paid university bosses

Modern lessons from a fourth-century tax dodge

Keep the Lord’s Prayer Sir: Chris Ashton has outlined three reasons why recitation of the Lord’s Prayer should be removed…

He's right to be on alert. Governments that don't look competent get no credit when things go well

Plus: In praise of 'Jesus and Mo', and a minor medical menace

My dog, by contrast, is intelligent, vigorous and middle class

The officials who flew Marc to France reassured him that he could, perhaps should, come straight back

I envied him for getting sued by Michael Mann. But now he needs all the support we can give

Plus: George Soros’s secrets, and what changed at Sainsbury’s

Faisal I was humane, far-sighted, distinguished — and rather dishy, shows Ali A. Allawi in his hefty if loosely-written biography 

Detlef Mertins's book on the architect Mies, who designed New York's Seagram Building, is suitably monumental

Did Dr Anna Pou euthanise victims trapped in the Memorial Medical Centre? Sheri Fink's Five Days at Memorial takes a close look at this — and much else

The pamphlet war between the 'conservative' Edmund Burke and the 'radical' Thomas Paine remains with us in unexpected ways, shows Yuval Levin in The Great Debate

In Dispatcher: Lost and Found in Johannesburg, Mark Gevisser remembers the secret roads and escape routes a young gay like him — and other dispossessed people — took in the land of apartheid

By focusing on one man in John Buchan: Model Governor General, J. William Galbraith casts a clear sidelight on a dying British empire

The schizophrenic hero of Nathan Filer's novel, Matt Homes, gives us a true, clear view of the world through his distorted vision

Interweaving a thriller with the backstories of a large cast of characters, the Chilean author give us two underwhelming novels in one

The Roman ruler abolished the Republic – but he also created a new system of imperial government and oversaw a flourishing of the arts

As church attendance falls off a cliff, so is our beautiful heritage of sacred singing

Plus: The actor in Stroke of Luck who's ripe to play Brian Sewell

Plus: A sneak preview of the drawings of Gainsborough, one of the greatest European draughtsmen of the 18th century

How the Welsh National Opera's MTV version of Manon the minx made me wish for comfortable cotton underwear

Plus: Directors of Swan Lake could learn something from Channel 4's reality TV show Big Ballet

Clooney has cast himself, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Hugh Bonneville and Cate Blanchett in a patchy show that tells, not shows

Comparing the cops of Salamander, Midsomer Murders, Brooklyn Nine-Nine — and Danny Boyle's frustrating Babylon

Plus: The show that makes you want to visit Calcutta (but not Kolkata)

Discoveries: Art, Science and Exploration marks the first time Cambridge university's eight museums are collaborating

The Sochi Games are being held on the edge of a war zone with Muslim extremists, yet the media concentrate only on gay rights

'You’ve got to get a hat, my son. Walk into a room with a hat on and every bird in the room will turn around and clock you.'

The Dutch conductor of feet-stamping classics is a weapon of mass happiness, and could sort out the Syrian mess in a couple of hours

'Concrete bungle'? The town is cultured, contemporary — and wonderfully content

The man who held the fort for me many a time, and who once saved me from bandits, is leaving Laikipia for his own home

A couple of Sundays ago, in London, Zia Mahmood and Demetri Marchessini held the first ever ‘Goulash Individual’ tournament. ‘Goulash’…

George Osborne is a supporter of chess. During the award ceremony at 11 Downing St for last year’s London Candidates’…

White to play. This position is from Carlsen-Caruana, Zurich 2014. White’s pin against the black rook and the passed pawn…

In Competition 2834 you were invited to submit an extract from a classic of children’s literature rewritten in the style…

Each of the unclued lights (one of two words and one of three) can be preceded by the same word…

One 4-letter word is to be placed in the middle of another to yield an 8-letter solution: 6 ÷ 19…

According to two new books, I should be hothousing them. I'm not

The trick is that there's no one rule. Try doing that with an algorithm

Plus: The elegant way to deal with a dodgy restaurant bill

Succulent winter fare from Spain

I expected better of Bernard O’Donoghue