Australians traditionally consider the country to be on holiday until Australia Day, even if they have to work, but this…

High in the Snowy Mountains, just past Turnbull’s Leap, is a secret and heavily guarded facility named Alboland, designed to…

Only a national inquiry can address the scale of the cover up

Glorifying jihadists has created a populace that supports terrorism

When businesses flee, common sense will return

The West is loath to admit that terrorists are in charge

You taste so bitter, not so sweet

A new investigation will try to uncover the truth

Labor’s personal attacks are no substitute for policies

Albanese’s dog-whistling is destroying social cohesion

Time for a deal?

At around five weeks into my pregnancy my phone found out about it, and from that point on I was…

The day after Mark Zuckerberg said fact-checkers ‘have destroyed more trust than they have created’ I experienced why he has…

Donald Trump has form with the smelt. In his 2016 presidential run, he complained that California’s authorities were prioritising the…

Five years ago this week, Boris Johnson was celebrating the achievement of leaving the European Union and wondering how he…

This is the article I have thought about writing for years, but I have always ended up asking what would…

‘The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation,’ said William McKinley, America’s 25th commander-in-chief, who happens to…

The vice-presidency of the United States has always been the butt of jokes. ‘I don’t plan to be buried until…

The former US president Jimmy Carterdied, at the age of 100, just before news of an imminent deal to free…

Swing states Where would Canada and Greenland rank if they became US states? – Canada would be, by far, the…

One does not like to disagree with one’s editor, but while the image of Rome salting the earth of its…

It would be natural to assume that sinking bond markets would be the government’s priority this week, as low UK…

Home Tulip Siddiq resigned as economic secretary to the Treasury, although she was found not to have broken the ministerial…

‘Traitor!’ the woman yelled at me the instant I entered the beautifully decorated living room of a famous actress. It…

Nothing left Sir: Rod Liddle is right to ascribe the establishment’s desire to suppress the truth in relation to grooming…

It will probably only damn me further in the eyes of many, but when I was a government minister I…

Last Saturday I was making my way across the road from St Pancras to King’s Cross when I noticed a…

I long to write less about Rachel Reeves and more about world-beating British businesses – such as Brompton, the folding…

What’s in a word? ‘Equality’. ‘Equity’. It’s the sort of thing that Channel 4 newsreaders find impossible to understand. Surely…

Have you been to a ‘divorce party’ yet this season? If you haven’t, not to worry, there’s still time. Divorce…

It is some time since I could claim any close acquaintance with the daily skirmishes of workaday Westminster. From risers…

‘We’ve had enough of living in two-tier Britain,’ bellows Nigel Farage to cheers from an 800-strong crowd at Chester’s Crowne…

In a recent interview, Hilary McGrady, the director-general of the National Trust, complains that ‘The culture wars we’re trying to…

Reason, narrowly framed, will never reveal the world to us. A better path involves reason harnessed to our ethical and aesthetic impulses, argues Alister McGrath

After a successful show in Moscow in 1990, the odd couple went on to even greater triumph in China three years later, as the long-suffering curator of both exhibitions describes

The 19th-century Austrian was an astonishingly pure stylist, as W.G. Sebald acknowledges – but it takes real dedication to craft to write such boring novels

The dictator obsessed over new recordings and was a frequent visitor to the Bolshoi; but he treated even the greatest musicians arbitrarily, consigning many to the Gulag for no reason

Vivian Gornick’s memoir of life in the city in the 1960s and 1970s is rich in anecdote and dialogues with waspish friends and neighbours

While we can all appreciate the benefits of AI, it is developing faster than anyone imagined, with no consensus on what constitutes acceptable risk

David Browne celebrates the vitality of the Village in its 1960s heyday, when clubs were subterranean crucibles where jazz, folk, blues and poetry swirled in a potent brew

Having suffered heavy casualties fighting the Soviets as part of the Axis alliance, the country was then occupied by the Nazis, which led to wholesale carnage during the siege of Budapest in 1945

McCloskey’s latest thriller is well written and tautly paced, but we feel so little connection with the suspect agents that the eventual unmasking of the mole is an anticlimax

Back in the childhoods of the baby boomers everyone seemed to know that Shakespeare was born in 1564 because there…

It doesn’t have anything new to say, which is right. If you could figure Dylan out, it would all be…

For artists lacking any obvious feel for the style, ‘going country’, similar to mainstream white artists dabbling in reggae in…

Relive with me and enjoy again the downfall of Armand Douglas Hammer. If you remember, Hammer’s Hollywood career had been…

When passions are aroused, all of us are liable to overstate our case. Dan Hicks, a curator at Oxford’s extraordinary…

American Primeval should really be called Two Incredibly Annoying Women In The Wild West. Yes, the first title is more…

When Cicely Mary Barker’s Flower Fairies of the Spring was published in 1923, a post-first world war mass wishful belief…

The Tempest is Shakespeare’s farewell, his final masterpiece or, if you’re being cynical, the play that made him jack it…

It’s a right mess, the classical piano trio; the unintended consequence of one of musical history’s more frustrating twists. When…

As if Hollywood’s elite didn’t have enough to be worried about, the Governor they elected, and whose homelessness laws and…

It is easy to miss the fact that a good deal of slang has a long-forgotten rhyming component (and is…

The Savoy Hotel is a theatre playing Mean Girls with a hotel attached to it, so you can expect it…

Clockwise round the grid from 1 run the final words (3,6,4,3,6,3,8,4,3,4,2,6) of a poem. Two unclued lights (one of two…

The first week of Dry January was relatively easy. Not falling asleep in front of the television was a pleasant…

Q. A Belgian couple (a baron and baroness, no less) are regular visitors to the Highlands and I have come…

Have you booked your tickets for the World Test Championship yet? Did you even know it’s on? What seemed like…

The language of sailing ships is as treacherous as a lee shore. Words seldom mean what they suggest or are…

A generous new Levy deal would be nice, as would English-based trainers producing as many winners as their Irish counterparts…

The funeral director down the lane is also the local taxi service, which partly explains why I see him drive…

Dante’s Beach, Ravenna I came to Italy to write a biography of Benito Mussolini in the summer of 1998 and…