If the polls are correct and the predictions of certain commentators are accurate, we are now less than a month…

Just when we thought it was safe to assume that the No case would win the Voice referendum, along comes…

How soon till Xi strikes?

ULEZ and other ‘climate’ atrocities

Unhappy New Zealanders are poised to ditch Labour

...and restore sanity

Let’s put the woke lens on Labor’s heroes

Destroy nature to save the planet

Beware the ‘collective’ Voice

Awaiting the green light of production

The new ruling class is now fully on display

Why won’t Britain give Ukraine what it needs?

How I got to know Westminster’s ‘Chinese agent’

Why won’t ITN release ex-staff from non-disclosure agreements?

Greenpeace’s strange silence about new dangers to whales

A pang of melancholy as I detach the Royal Albert Hall pass from my BBC lanyard. I had a similar…

The GMB leader demanding a rethink on Labour’s energy policy

Our prisons are in crisis

Shoplifting is out of control

As Napoleon is reputed to have said, never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. So why are…

Get out of jail There were 8 prison escapes in the year to March. All were recaptured within a month.…

There were many potential titles for Liz Truss’s memoir: 49 Days that Shook the World, perhaps, or simply What Happened,…

How terrified should we be of the new Covid variant nicknamed (on Twitter) ‘Pirola’? Out of our wits? Or should…

Like all hacks, I sometimes wonder whether I should just screw my self-esteem, do a Jonathan Freedland and start writing…

Every morning I check to see if Rodrigo Iván Cortés has published the ‘apology’ that the court in Mexico has…

Aged 69, the travel writer had a stroke and spent his last 20 years as a hemiplegic – and writing this memoir of his father’s life intertwined with snapshots of his own

The American author turns her attention to colonial injustice in a tale about a servant girl who flees a blighted English settlement in 17th-century Jamestown

A delicate, funny and generous-hearted novel about thwarted love and its aftermath in a 1960s Middle England

Naomi Klein had got used to being confused with Naomi Wolf. Then Covid hit and it was no longer a joke

The author once takes a big issue and, with her characteristic quiet brilliance, illuminates it in a small homely setting

From an employee of a tram company in Birkenhead to the deeply eccentric Alexander Ellis, a celebration of the army of unpaid contributors to the first edition of the OED

Snatches of memoir, poetry and observation from a writer whose main preoccupation is recording the lives of others

Jenni Fagan dug up all the files and archives on herself as a baby in care to write this stunning and poignant memoir

The author’s Japanese ghost stories brought him fame and fortune – but his own life was even stranger than fiction

Michael Peppiatt has had a lifelong obsession with Alberto Giacometti – and it shows in this perfect biography, says Lynn Barber

It’s strange the different strands of culture we constantly negotiate. The Rolling Stones bring out a new album and this…

At the beginning of the 1980s a former ice-cream salesman called Ted Perry drove a London minicab to raise money…

Anthropology is a drama about artificial intelligence that starts as an ultra-gloomy soap opera. A suicidal lesbian, Merril, speaks on…

It’s now been ten years since Seamus Heaney died, and after a great poet’s death it’s natural, I suppose, that…

One could soundly advise any choreographer to avoid music so transcendentally great in itself that dance can add nothing except…

Sliding doors may change your life, but there’s no mystery in their transparency. A hinged wooden door is another matter;…

Why is Australian MasterChef so much better than the English version? You’d think, with a population less than a third…

The new Rolling Stones single, supposedly their best in many a decade, is called ‘Angry’. And while on the surface…

A Haunting in Venice is Kenneth Branagh’s third Poirot film (after Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the…

Why is Frans Hals still not considered the equal of Rembrandt, asks Craig Raine

Seven Days in May, a novel written in 1962 and turned into a film in 1964, concerns a planned coup…

I need to loudly lament (once again) the deceptive misuse of the word ‘mistake’ by people who have a black…

Poundbury is the King’s idealised town in Dorchester, built on his land to his specifications: the town that sprung out…

‘What are you still doing here?’ joked Daniil Medvedev to Novak Djokovic after their US Open tennis final – a…

In the middle of an unpredictable Indian summer, here is a recipe from sultry southern Italy which is suitable for…

A few weeks ago I had a crack at coming up with my own sociological ‘law’ and my first effort…

‘Ukraine Family – Welcome You,’ said the ungrammatical sign at the entrance to the car park of our favourite West…

Gstaad This is the best news since the Bush-Blair duo saved us from the nuclear holocaust Saddam was about to…