At the heart of the Paris Agreement is a major furphy, certainly as far as Australia is concerned. Namely, that…

The culture wars are every bit as important as the economic ones

Can Josh Frydenberg come back?

Excuses, excuses

The morality of the war against Hamas

The globalist order is floundering

When a change in the weather spells a change in the law

Let’s acknowledge the UN has ceased to serve the interests of the West

No lessons for Chris Bowen from Europe’s Greenlash

Parties neutralise constitutional remedies

Three weeks ago, I received an SOS from a distressed citizen of Glasgow, urging me to protest against a recently…

I wait till early summer to spring-clean so I’m moving my study, a stirring-up that invariably releases powerful methane from…

Petulance, panic and performance. President Macron’s broadcast following the evisceration of his party in last weekend’s elections for the European…

When Keith Vaz announced his ambition to stand as an independent for Leicester East in the general election, no one…

‘Women are more religious because they are socialised to be obedient and passive.’ ‘In Latin America, men often spend 20-40…

‘There is only one China in the world,’ Wang Wenbin, the spokesman for China’s foreign ministry, declared at a press…

Four years ago, Madrí didn’t exist. Today, the faux Spanish lager is sold in a quarter of British pubs, which…

Here follows a non-exhaustive list of my genetic flaws. I am short-sighted, more so as I age. I have bunions,…

Donald Trump’s book on business Think Big and Kick Ass makes taking personal revenge a very high priority. Given recent…

Made manifest What was in the first manifesto? The word ‘manifesto’ is first recorded as being used in English in…

Do you pack up the flat or not? That’s the question that everyone who lives in Downing Street faces as…

Home The Conservatives promised to reduce National Insurance from 8 per cent to 6 per cent (and abolish it for…

We are witnessing what could well be the last few weeks of a constrained Labour party. Sir Keir Starmer is…

Debunking the debanking Sir: Toby Young is wrong to say the Conservatives have ‘failed us on debanking’ (No sacred cows,…

The first editor I worked for was Charles Moore and, like many of his old and ageing former staff, I…

Nigel Farage and I agree on one thing: a red-carpet welcome at the London Stock Exchange for Shein, the Chinese…

The Tory manifesto is ‘a clear plan’ promising ‘bold action’. Rishi Sunak uses the word ‘bold’ three times in two…

It’s a sunny Friday afternoon in Gullane, an affluent seaside town on the Firth of Forth. For political campaigners, golden…

My father was fond of telling anyone who would listen that Britain would never entertain fascism because we all had…

There is a favourite Fleet Street story about the legendary Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie. While editing the paper, he discovered…

I can still remember the first time I heard big band jazz. I was in my twenties (too long ago!)…

Traditional agricultural methods still operating in pockets of Europe maintain an enviable balance of ecology and economy and an extraordinary diversity of wildlife

The anonymous professor rails against politicians, administrators, colleagues and students who consistently fall short of his ethical and intellectual standards

A mild-manned academic with special powers joins forces with three similarly gifted friends to defeat the Dark Adversary, Sinistro

Specialist knowledge of Tudor portraiture, book bindings, music and jewellery enables us to see each woman anew, possessed of a distinct life and afterlife

With months to live, Caveney looks back on his childhood, muses on favourite writers, decries NHS underfunding and rejoices in his beloved partner, Emma

The delightfully higgledy-piggledy display of antiquities, filling walls from floor to ceiling, may have been inspired by the Piranesi prints Soane also collected

The most surprising thing about Conor Niland’s bruising account of his tennis career is that he emerges with his sanity intact

As Thatcher’s economic private secretary in the first years of her government, Tim Lankester is well qualified to analyse the controversial policy and its effects

Christopher Isherwood’s experiences as a young man in Weimar Germany would be reworked in his autofiction for the rest of his life

There’s something inspiring about getting an example of the national talent locking horns with the glory of traditional high culture,…

Freud’s Last Session stars Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode and is a work of speculative fiction asking what would have…

Marie Curie: The Musical is a history lesson combined with a chemistry seminar and it’s aimed at indignant feminists who…

I encountered Frederick Ashton at a dinner party shortly before he died in 1988. Frail and anxious, he clutched my…

There are certain things that you don’t expect at the opera. Laughter, for example. Proper laughter, that is; not the…

‘Can you come Saturday morning to my studio, 19 bis rue Fontaine?’ Degas wrote to Edmond de Goncourt in 1879.…

Sometimes there are advantages to being ill-informed. Knowing embarrassingly little about why 30 Greenpeace activists were jailed in Russia in…

On 5 August, Ferruccio Busoni’s Piano Concerto will be performed at the Proms for only the second time. It should…

A decade ago, a group of people who owned small music venues came to the conclusion that the kinds of…

I’m in a nursing home. It’s St Vincent’s, Australia’s biggest not-for-profit aged care provider, one of several in Brisbane run…

A Speccie reader asks for a word that explains the obsessions of the woke around us. Looking for a single…

When I told an ex-editor of this magazine that I was planning to write about why I’m voting for Reform…

The Pac-Man defence, as all high-flying financiers know, is a tactic borrowed from the enjoyably addictive computer game which means…

The National Galleries of Scotland is singular. In its public pronouncements its pronouns are it and its. Fair enough. Though…

Enjoying the election? It was a colleague from my days with CNN who alerted me during Donald Trump’s first contest…

The other week my eldest daughter and I were staying with friends in Richmond for the launch of Jeremy’s third…

I have a complicated relationship with elderflower cordial. I love taking ingredients that have short seasons, preserving and squirrelling them…

White to play. Adapted from an example in Capablanca’s classic manual Chess Fundamentals. Only one move leads to a win…

‘Please, I’ll do anything,’ I told the plumber. ‘I’ll give you all the money I have if you just come…