If you thought the Covid era was bad, just wait for the New Acma era to begin! Acma is of…

The Liberals have their principles. They just need to stick to them.

Appeasement is for losers

Why Albo’s Voice brand fails to resonate with voters

... and my backyard!

A perfect storm of costs

France and Australia are both on the same Marxist trajectory

Albo’s been watching too many disaster movies

Now they’re cancelling Christians

What are the Voice activists trying to hide?

Cosmetic surgery is booming thanks to social media

Warsaw’s battle with the EU over migrant quotas

Will mounting casualties change the debate in Ukraine?

The changing face of the BBC Proms

James W. Phillips and Eliezer Yudkowsky on the threat from AI

Has the Vatican abandoned beauty?

The Illegal Migration Bill is having a distorting effect on the Tory party. It has put Theresa May and Iain…

Mx Universe A transgender woman was named ‘Miss Netherlands’, and will now compete in the Miss Universe contest. British TV…

The Labour party is preparing for power and the unions are deciding what role they might play. Friend or foe?…

There are still 27 people left in the British Isles – at the time of writing – who are unaware…

Were I sure this was about me alone, I’d hardly bother to mention it: but I may be typical of…

The news has been coming so thick and fast of late that every week there are dozens of stories we…

I made a poor excuse for a Presbyterian even as a kid. I resented religious indoctrination every precious school-free Sunday.…

For almost 130 years Australian Liberals have prided themselves on their ability to exercise their civic duty to speak and…

Food and fashion are the chief culprits, with too much organic waste going to landfill, and 10-15 per cent of new clothing routinely incinerated as ‘deadstock’

Describing the golden age of ancient Egypt, John Romer pays tribute to the chief wife of Thutmose II who proclaimed herself king and ruled successfully for almost 20 years

Niall Kishtainy examines the eccentric ideas of Gerrard Winstanley, Thomas Spence, John Adolphus Etzler, Thomas More and other utopians who lived in and around the capital

Instead of swashbuckling, we get the Parisian art world, trout-fishing, unhappy couples and surrogate parenting – though the 20 stories for children are full of adventure

Laura Elkin looks at women artists from the past century onwards who boldly portray the female body from their own intimate experience

In an atmosphere of languid torpor on a French family estate, an unfortunate relationship develops between a son, a father and a mother-in-law

A retired librarian reflects on a childhood runaway adventure and a devastating romantic betrayal as he begins to forge new bonds in later life

Scarred by reporting the Beslan school siege in 2004, Tom Parfitt embarks on a gruelling – and ultimately healing – journey from the Black Sea to the Caspian

In an effort to arrest his slide into middle-aged bloat, he attempted a ‘Proustian’ novel, but spilling the secrets of the women he claimed to love was social suicide

As ever in her short stories, Hadley uses the smallest details – of dress, food and decor – to masterfully convey class, character and the inner world of others

A teasing piece of crime fiction weaves together real and invented murders in a satire on the true crime genre and its devotees

Simon Kuper finds little to connect the strongmen of the past and present apart from their contempt for their own supporters

Graham Greene used to say that none of the great literary works he had read as an adult had the…

In 2014, Ben Macintyre presented a BBC2 documentary based on his book A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the…

Seven years ago, I asked Bruce Springsteen what he meant when he talked of the covenant between himself and his…

Blockbuster action movies are designed to stun the audience into submissive acceptance. Complexity, humanity, emotion and beauty are reduced to…

Beneatha’s Place, set in the 1950s, follows a black couple who encounter racial prejudice when they move to a predominately…

In 1998 curators at the Courtauld Institute received an anonymous phone call informing them that 11 drawings in their collection…

‘Ring out your bells for me, ivory keys! Weave out your spell for me, orchestra please!’ It’s lush stuff, the…

Can anything serious come from podcasts, asks Sam Kriss

If British women’s rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen goes ahead with the defamation suit she is reportedly considering taking out against…

Is the word ‘bonzer’ no longer part of the living Australian language? Bernard Salt thinks not, writing in the Weekend…

In Competition No. 3207 you were invited to submit a verse obituary of Silvio Berlusconi. The Italian former prime minister…

Some subjects invite an eternal recurrence. One such is Tuscany. The other day, I wrote about that glorious region: its…

This week, writing in the Daily Mail, Matt Ridley produced a devastating takedown of the government’s 2030 ban on the…

I first met Caitlin Moran at Julie Burchill’s flat in Bloomsbury. This was in the early 1990s and she was…

I should have listened to George Duffield. Sandown Park’s Eclipse Stakes, the first time the Classic generation of three-year-olds take…

‘You certainly gave us a run for our money,’ said the village elder, serving us with what appeared to be…

A poor little Greek boy writing about cricket etiquette is like Harry Sussex lecturing on discretion, but never mind. As…