Events over the past few days have shown that the Coalition’s flawed strategy of keeping the Trump administration at arm’s…

With a new generation devoted to TikTok, X/Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat, Australia is poised to become the first country to…

The world is abandoning the green energy fantasy

Green communism has crippled our nation

Blame the Okun deception

Cautious conservatives are a waste of our time

Dismantling USAID is the right place to start

Defence spending needs a dramatic overhaul

The opposition must fight a khaki election

A deal looks elusive now, but that could change

Forget the mouse that roared

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It’s not hard to see why the 93-year-old, wheelchair-bound Princess Astrid of Norway might feel that now is the moment…

There is a war being waged in NHS hospitals. On one side are overstretched junior doctors in understaffed wards. On…

This year the European Convention on Human Rights and its Strasbourg court are 75 years old – the age at…

David Lammy, the Foreign Secretary, and Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State, had rather tellingly different responses to the latest…

The Congolese chapter of Islamic State has a ruthless way of stopping outsiders reporting their presence to the authorities. Under…

No one covers up their war crimes any more. They film them, celebrate them, post them on X. So we…

I’ve been head down for the past few weeks, preparing for my one-man show. The title is catchy – Nigel…

Home Three Bulgarians were found guilty of spying for Russia as part of a cell that plotted to kidnap and…

Tony Blair’s former spin doctor Alastair Campbell has many talents. But his understanding of Middle Eastern politics leaves much to…

Democracy rules Sir: I share the sentiments of both Rod Liddle (‘Trump displays weakness, not strength’, 8 March) and Douglas…

I don’t like cats. I don’t like their reptilian stealth, or the way their heads are set low and poke…

I was thinking lately of Robert Kilroy-Silk. For younger readers, and people who were never students or unemployed, a quick…

In early June last year I had a reasonably agreeable meal with a bunch of Reform UK activists at a…

So bad was the debut of this Labour government that many think it has already failed. But now, I suggest,…

Labour MPs these days are experiencing whiplash. When in opposition, the party attacked the Tories’ proposed benefits cuts for ‘effectively…

It is meet, right and our bounden duty to begin any column about Ukraine with a vigorous expression of the…

‘Don’t stress over short-term stock market swings’ is a maxim on which Donald Trump and I might agree, even if…

The society rebel with a fondness for cross-dressing travelled widely in Africa, South America and the Middle East, dying in 1959, aged 70, with bags packed for the next expedition

With much research threatened by flawed methods and misconduct, will AI bring unprecedented scientific progress or merely increase the unreliability problem?

Wounded by their husbands’ infidelity and shattered by the deaths of their only sons, Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France defied court protocol in a bid for independence

What would have happened had Lord Byron fought for Simon Bolivar in Latin America, rather than dying of fever in Missolonghi, campaigning for Greek independence?

Things look bad for the former socialist MP Victor Grayson after he threatens to expose David Lloyd George’s cash for honours scandal in 1920

When post-natal depression descends, Lucy Mangan describes reaching for Lee Child, finding catharsis in his no-nonsense villain-bashing

It was kill or be killed for the Ottoman sultan’s heirs in a bizarre succession ritual involving the ruthless culling of close relatives

Among the many ‘rare tongues’ explored by Lorna Gibb is the use of smoke signals by native north Americans, the oldest form of long-distance communication

The latest biography of Vanessa Bell explores her domestic and artistic radicalism but avoids the central contradiction of her life: deceiving her daughter Angelica for years over her parentage

If you wanted confirmation that the world can change dramatically you need only remember the Berlin Wall coming down in…

Punk rock, packaged, parcelled, and boxed up as a treat for nostalgic wrinklies. That’s the deal with Punk Off!, a…

You know that urge when you’ve got friends coming for the weekend and you just have to spend the previous…

One of the few indisputably great ballerinas of her generation, Natalia Osipova is a magnificent exemplar of the Russian school,…

The photograph on the cover of Jessica Duchen’s magnificent new biography of Dame Myra Hess shows a statuesque lady sitting…

Paula Rego’s 2021 retrospective at Tate Britain demonstrated that, among art critics, ambiguity is still highly prized as a measure…

‘I’m full of excitement waiting for this to dry out,’ Sir Frank Bowling exclaims. We are sitting in his studio,…

Grade: A– There’s a species of music-lover who enjoys pointing out that Elgar isn’t played much on the Continent –…

Progressive rock never died. Whenever some grizzled punk soldier next appears on a BBC4 documentary relaying their version of that…

When Kermit the Frog told us in 1971 that it’s not easy being green it was meant as a plea…

Speccie reader Joseph has written to ask: What is ‘identity politics’? First, the history. The term ‘identity politics’ is recorded…

With the world on fire – not to mention large swathes of the North Sea – it is understandable that…

‘What are your intentions towards my daughter?’ said my husband, screwing an imaginary monocle into his eye. We had been…

After running all the errands I could to help my parents, a letter from West Midlands Police arrived. They were…

The immaculate bourgeois socialists of north London – that is not code for Jews – like to eat and drink…

In an otherwise excellent article for the Sunday Telegraph last week about our government’s hopeless pandemic response, Dan Hannan made…

Q. Annoyingly, one of the Sunday newspapers ran an article about the ‘least used but most scenic footpaths’ in the…

Provence Molly MacCarthy launched the Bloomsbury Memoir Club in the spring of 1920 with two aims. The first was to…

I never enter a Cheltenham Festival week without thinking of the Irish punter who won enough on champion hurdler Istabraq…