Congratulations on your elevation to leadership of the Liberal party of Australia. It is a position of great honour, although…

Know your foe

The Coalition’s economic policy mistakes

Fed up with the bias

Don’t cry for Argentina any more

The contradictions of the new pope

The new pope’s reign will not be a simple extension of the Francis era

Is Keir Starmer a secret agent for Reform UK?

The folly of not going for growth

Fashion to die for

Believe in ourselves or perish

For a century, Kenwood ladies’ pond on Hampstead Heath in north London had been a haven for women – gay,…

For years I worked as an NHS manager, seeing first-hand the consequences of Britain’s broken social care system spill over…

It’s a matter of life and death at the Chelsea Flower Show this year. No murders are planned as far…

Keir Starmer is worried about who’s coming into the country. This week, he launched a white paper with the aim…

Rome In the days before the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV, traditionalist Catholics were so worried about interference from…

Every four weeks the government sends me my state pension. Those words have a socialist, almost Soviet, ring. The amount…

Shabana Mahmood may be the only Labour politician to have persuaded Rishi Sunak to vote for her. The former prime…

There are few phrases more terrifying than ‘men’s fashion’. It reminds me of yuppies in salmon-coloured jorts on their way…

Elsa had been alive less than an hour and her umbilical cord was still attached when she was wrapped in…

All wars end, one way or another. One of the longest wars in the Middle East, between Turkey and Kurdish…

Decline and brawl Sir: Gus Carter’s insightful portrayal of ‘Scuzz Nation’ (‘Streets of shame’, 10 May) is less of a…

On the road with a new book, I recently spoke at a literary luncheon hosted by the Cambridge Festival. What…

When it comes to immigration, Keir Starmer has been ‘on a journey’. As a young barrister, he authored a review…

Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, said, ‘We risk becoming an island of strangers’ as the government published a…

Will Pope Leo turn out to be a lion or a pussycat? That depends on what he has to confront,…

If we were really an island of strangers, as Sir Keir Starmer attested this week, then it might be OK.…

Regular readers will know that I have an obsession with home burglaries. Specifically those occasions when a burglar goes into…

Market choice has long been an article of faith in the Conservative party. But the Tories are less keen on…

I’ve struggled to ascertain from afar the true nature of Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland. Progressive media love to quote its…

An awkward delay in the unveiling of the Mansion House Accord was, we’re told, nothing more than a Downing Street…

Graham Tomlin focuses on the Catholic philosopher’s search for intellectual certainty, but the cosmic gamble’s serious flaws don’t get the attention they deserve

James Joyce’s celebrated biographer seemed a mild man to fellow academics – but his ambition and steely self-belief made him a callous husband and father

The debut novel by a historian of the Vichy regime is a personal J’Accuse, indicting the collaborators in her family for their part in France’s collapse in the second world war

The latest short stories focus on everyday traumas: ageing, PTSD in a former soldier, and the loss of a parent, spouse or grandchild

Plodding through suburbia in Bowie’s footsteps, Peter Carpenter might be Sue Townsend’s hero incarnate – and there’s even an omnipresent friend called Nigel

Intelligence provided by William de Ropp made the situation painfully clear, but the British political establishment, determined on peace, wilfully ignored the warnings

Haunted by his wife’s affair, a middle-aged professor leaves his home and job to take a road trip across America. But will his act of emancipation bring him peace?

The way out of the muddle, says Owen Hopkins, is ‘post-architecture’ – tied to the earth and purged of vanity – which can be achieved by a close study of 21 remarkable buildings

In a self-lacerating memoir, the restaurateur describes his many regrets, dislikes and feuds with celebrities, his longing for recognition and his love of family and friends

Our need for belief in the supernatural gave rise to a demand for ‘mystical intermediaries’, or shamans, forging man’s earliest religion from which all others developed, argues Manvir Singh

Bill Henson, the greatest Australian photographer, has a show at the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery at 6pm Friday 16 May. It’s…

‘Next time you do a review, you’ve got to find something you like. You’ve been far too negative,’ said the…

With Die Walküre, the central themes of Barrie Kosky’s Ring cycle for the Royal Opera are starting to emerge, and…

A little under a year ago, it emerged that builders working on the redevelopment of the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing…

An 80-minute film which for almost all of the time features two people in a car mightn’t sound particularly ambitious.…

Although I doff my hat to Carlos Acosta’s BRB2, Birmingham Royal Ballet’s junior troupe, for a reminder of what is…

Two hours of yakking about Israel. That’s all you get from Giant at the Harold Pinter Theatre. Endless wittering laced…

History is full of odd couples: famous but unrelated people who happen to have been born in the same year.…

Young male singers won the right to be sensitive in 1963, when The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan was released. And in…

In 1968 the anthropologist Bill Stanner gave the Boyer Lectures on ABC Radio and coined the phrase ‘the great Australian…

Joe Hildebrand excitedly told me about a new word he had come across while doing a Times cryptic crossword puzzle…

We had been discussing Ukraine, Gaza, Iran, the possibility of a nuclear exchange across the Punjab and other trifling matters.…

The weekend before last, I came home from walking the dog at about noon to find Caroline asleep in bed.…

Ask any estate agent: most potential house buyers arrive with a detailed list of criteria for their new home, only…

Q. Having previously lived in the country in a field with my nearest neighbour not even visible, I recently moved…

Rwanda It had been more than 30 years, yet I recognised the church and its surroundings instantly. Superimposed on the…

To be honest, I felt relief when Pope Francis died. This had nothing much to do with his regular assertion,…

Competition 3399 called for a traditional bedtime story updated for the 21st century.We’re tight on space, so I’ll pause just…

Iam standing in my kitchen preparing kidneys for devilling. Snipping their white cores away piece by piece until they come…

By changing the address on my driving licence, I was somehow signed up to something that began charging my credit…