Coal is a four-letter word for Labor/Green governments in Australia where it can’t be used in polite company. Thank goodness…

Australians only need look to New Zealand to fear the Voice

Labor and the trade unions

An outsider’s observation of the latest British fiasco

Probing the truth

The primaries will be a referendum on pandemic policies

No end in sight to the Higgins saga

Nothing funny about it when we get a peek behind the scenes

Beware the post-Covid power grab

My pommy love of the Aussie bastards

Truth-telling necessary in the referendum

What I learnt on a pilgrimage

The plot against the PM

How Saudi Arabia is buying the world

Men don’t belong in women’s sport

The Russian leader is losing control

How I tried — and failed — to become a woman

The search for the next pontiff is turning ugly

British politicians tend to avoid the issue of abortion. The subject divides America bitterly, yet Britain has opted for consensus.…

London faces its seventh mayoral election next year and, yet again, the Tories are having trouble finding a suitable candidate.…

‘No one has the right to judge you’ was one of the last posts made on Facebook by Staffordshire ‘mum’…

I was in New York while the smoke from Canadian wildfires filtered over the city for three days last week,…

The hubbub about Boris Johnson is blocking the view. He is, of course, an easy and undemanding topic of conversation.…

The week of the three downfalls has been an interesting one. Boris Johnson resigning from parliament, Donald Trump going to…

Alan Philps reveals how many western journalists, duped by Stalinist propaganda, rushed to blame the Nazis for the Soviet atrocity

Its industrial new towns have nothing in common with its picturesque villages and lonely estuaries – but a refusal to conform still unites this deeply schizophrenic county

After vital work for British intelligence during the second world war, why did J.L. Austin devote the rest of his life to considering literally asinine questions?

The pain – and ultimately serenity – Julian of Norwich experienced throughout her series of violent visions are vividly captured in this fine fictional autobiography

A trio of formidable British women are enjoying peaceful retirement in Italy – until their idyll is disrupted by a series of unforeseen events

Pregnant women are still woefully ill-prepared for the gruelling experience ahead of them and the life-changing damage that often results, says Lucy Jones

Rachel Chrastil describes how Bismarck, relying on Gallic pride to provoke the war he wanted, ensured that France would fight without a single ally

Avi Shlaim claims to have uncovered undeniable proof that Zionist agents were responsible for targeting the Jewish community, forcing them to flee Iraq and settle in Israel

Monkeying around on TV vastly increased the group’s sales and popularity but prevented them from ever being taken seriously, says Tom Kemper

Was one venal old man primarily responsible for France’s catastrophe of 1940-44, or was it
a case of collective failure? The question remains unanswered, says Patrick Marnham

There are times when anyone might decide to throw in scanning the range of literature and art and music and…

In the opening minutes of Best Interests (Monday and Tuesday), an estranged middle-aged couple made their separate ways to court,…

My witty friend whispered that Wayne McGregor’s new ballet Untitled, 2023 put her in mind of Google HQ – it’s…

One of the earliest jukebox musicals has returned to the West End. When the show opened in 2002 the author,…

There are a lot of corpses on stage at the end of Charles Edwards’s production of Tristan & Isolde for…

Some artists need flash bombs to make an impression on stage. Some need giant screens. Some need to run around…

There’s a nice irony to the title Salon Paintings when the salon in question is a barbershop, an irony that…

Hermione Eyre on Yevonde, the pioneering 1930s photographer whose colour portraits evoke a vanishing world

With the exception of two or three of our tastier fish species, I doubt if anything in Australia has taken…

For a number of years British journalist Philip Howard wrote a weekly language column for the Times in London (he…

What an idyllic setting. We were amidst the joys of high summer in England, with just enough of a breeze…

I sometimes feel my entire life in advertising has been wasted, and not for the reason you may assume. No,…

Did the BBC breach its own impartiality rules by keeping critics of the government’s pandemic response off the air during…

‘Achoo!’ was the first thing the girl sitting next to me on the plane said as I took my seat…

Southampton, Long Island ‘Why, oh why, do the wrong people travel?’ sang Noël Coward back in the early 1960s. Lucky…