The sheer stupidity of the Albanese government and the renewables investment lobby groups would be comical if it were not…

As you know, I am renowned for my commitment to diversity and equality of opportunity and the eradication all forms…

The Minister and his department appear to be Marles apart

The Capitol will not be mocked

I’d rather go to court in Dan Andrews’ Melbourne or even the ACT

Sometimes it takes a supervillain to point out our flaws

The collectivists of the West must not be allowed to destroy capitalism

EV sales falling flat. No wonder.

The disastrous consequences of Tony Burke’s workplace ‘reforms’

How central bankers have got it wrong on interest rates

Price gouging & the bottomless bikini

Rome and Kyiv have one thing in common – the distinctive whine of motor-scooter engines in the night. The difference…

In 1984 I was a third-year student nurse. The last secondment before my final exam was gynaecology. The wards were…

Barry Humphries would have been 90 on 17 February. To commemorate his life, Radio 4 is broadcasting Barry Humphries: Gloriously…

British men are getting into ‘beauty’. ‘Now it’s men’s turn to hog the bathroom,’ reports the Times, as spending increases…

Among the Western democracies there are increasing signs that things are falling apart – our governments no longer know what…

Few personal details survive about Eric Blair’s life as a policeman in Burma, making his years in the East fertile ground for the novelist

Simon Ings examines the lives of Maxim Gorky, Maurice Barrès, Gabriele D’Annunzio and Ding Ling, whose propagandism helped shape – and misshape – the 20th century

In her latest memoir, Leslie Jamison describes her pregnancy, experience of childbirth and devotion to her baby, returning repeatedly to the dilemmas of a working mother

Andrew Drummond traces the short, turbulent career of Thomas Müntzer, the rabble-rousing revolutionary behind the peasants’ uprising in 1520s Germany

It is thrillingly difficult to keep one’s balance in Carson’s topsy-turvy world as she meditates on a wide range of subjects in poetry, pictures and prose

Alwyn Turner draws on popular culture to show how violent protest and unrest followed the old queen’s death, making nonsense of the fabled Edwardian ‘golden summer’

Adam Phillips explores the various implications of the phrase, contrasting giving up smoking or alcohol with giving up hope – and being given up on

Andrew Stauffer traces the poet’s tumultuous life through some of the most remarkable missives in the English language

Is it a necessary declension, the descent from histrionic splendour to self-parody and worse? For years now Ryan Murphy has…

Plus: the joy of hearing lawyers argue

It was the mother of royal scandalabras, as Walt Winchell might have said, and remains one of the greatest historical…

Popular wisdom has it that the smartphone has shrivelled teenagers’ attention spans. But they are getting better at chess, and…