‘We won’t get to net-zero emissions in this country, or indeed the world, without the resources sector, without gas, and…

ABC grope-think True to its mission to enlighten and entertain, the ABC has set out to inform us about the…

How conservatives can win again

The era of the woke CEO is over

Objectivity’s out in US newsrooms

Politics abhors a vacuum

Are politicians destroying New Zealand?

Heroic Aussie GP reveals jab’s scary safety signals

How the internet has ch-ch-changed everything

Transitioning to blackouts

Cui bono?

What’s the future for Scotland – and the Union?

The prospect of meatless Lenten days does not thrill me

Is Chinese science all it’s cracked up to be?

Revealed: Aberdeen’s ‘curriculum decolonising’ plans

Mariana Mazzucato and Rory Sutherland on consultancy’s overreach

How UFOs captured the imagination of America – and the world

Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation as First Minister of Scotland comes at a critical moment for the Union, since the question of…

Schools out Sir: Toby Young is absolutely spot-on in his assessment of the impact of Labour’s plans to put VAT…

  Jerusalem   As 100,000 Israelis gathered outside Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, on Monday, to protest against Binyamin Netanyahu’s government’s…

A little late in the day, perhaps, it has been pointed out to the intellectual colossi of South Tyneside Council…

I used to think that the early hours of the morning were for sleeping. Sometimes they might become an extension,…

The late Robert Conquest adumbrated three rules of politics. Perhaps the most famous (also known as O’Sullivan’s law) is that…

The novelist and travel writer reflects on the resilience of the human spirit in countries whose staggering beauty has largely been trashed

It was a year packed with drama – from the transatlantic crossing of the SS Great Britain to the start of the Irish potato blight that would leave millions starving

The biographer and journalist was always reluctant to write about herself, and this posthumously published memoir is hemmed in by what she kept locked away

The learning on display in this latest Collected Non-Fiction is as astonishing as ever – though ‘B-sides and Rarities’ might describe the more marginal pieces

Exploring stretches of the country’s Roman road, Tom Bullough notes how climate change and environmental degradation are seriously threatening the landscape

Even the serious abuse she suffered as a small child and a teenager is described without a trace of self-pity

When a rich farmer goes missing and his young wife seeks the protection of an impoverished labourer, the consequences are disastrous

A surgeon from Kashmir is tormented by the penal operations he once performed under Sharia law, such as amputations for robbery

Any mention of imperialism’s benefits is now considered morally reprehensible, as the furore over Nigel Biggar’s Colonialism shows

The vast majority of musicians who adopted 1960s rock and roll were later reviled by the Khmer Rouge and consigned to the Killing Fields, says Dee Payok

Is it merely a European construct – and what, if anything, do its diverse peoples have in common, wonders Peter Frankopan

Last week saw the streaming of the sixth and final episode of Happy Valley, the Yorkshire policier with the great…

I was almost tempted not to watch Kleo because it sounded like so many things I’d seen before: beautiful ex-Stasi…

I was sceptical when the lady on the bus to Reading town centre told me that her father knew Liszt.…

Simon Stone claims that his new comedy, Phaedra, draws on the work of Euripides, Seneca and Racine. In fact, the…

Can you ever truly know a poet? The question arises every time one publishes a collection that looks vaguely confessional.…

For my money – and lots of other people’s – Florian Zeller’s 2020 film The Father was pretty much a…

There is footage on the internet of Robert Smith, lead singer in the Cure, being interviewed on the occasion of…

Halfway up the stairs to the Royal College of Music’s exhibition Music, Migration & Mobility is a map of NW3,…

Laura Gascoigne on Vermeer’s women

Of the five Australians who have won the Booker Prize, which one is on the NSW HSC English set text…

I’ve been tracking the way the word ‘racism’ has changed in recent times. Both the word and the concept of…

The unclued Across lights were of a kind, as are the unclued Down lights now. All are verifiable in Brewer…

In Competition No. 3286, you were invited to submit a toe-curling Valentine poem to Harry, or to the love object…

The Mount St Restaurant lives above the Audley Public House on Mount Street, ‘a traditional neighbourhood pub, carefully restored, and…

The first two rounds of the Six Nations have exploded across the sporting landscape insuperlative – draining displays of skill…

James Delingpole and I had a blazing row on our weekly podcast on Monday. We were discussing the recent departure…

Rwanda The mineshaft is dark, the air humid and starved of oxygen. I follow Marcus Edwards-Jones out of the muddy…

The man in the phone shop greeted me with what I presume is a look specifically designed and reserved for…

Two nights running I was incontinent of urine and woke up with warmly weighted pyjama bottoms. Former nurse Catriona didn’t…