A tweet doing the rounds this week is surely satire? Apparently not. Writing from Sydney’s oceanside suburb of Manly, the…

Activist judges will, yet again, be the winners

How China uses ‘force’ to prevent ‘war’

Baby formula and unintended consequences

Technology and innovation fighting brutal hardware and aggression

Coming soon: a vast health bureacracy with a vested interest in pandemics

Surrendering the culture wars

The West still doesn’t understand the true nature of scorpions

Putin’s red quagmire

Where black female lives appear not to matter

He should be in the Lodge

Not all 3.4 million of us in Britain want to ban films

My 68 seconds as a white-collar boxer

Voters are increasingly unsure where to turn

There’s an old saying that English summertime begins when the frothy heads of elderflowers appear in hedgerows – and ends…

For the first time since the pandemic, Prince Charles has returned to Transylvania. When he visits the small village of…

Ukraine’s chief prosecutor on her country’s quest for justice

The reality TV star who’s turned astrophysicist

How much of a threat to Macron is France’s new left coalition?

Home The British economy contracted by 0.3 per cent in April after shrinking by 0.1 per cent in March, according…

The leader we need? Sir: Matthew Parris excoriates Boris Johnson for administrative incompetence, mendacity, personal immorality and utter lack of…

The RMT union is threatening strikes to bring the country to a halt. Such activities have a long history in…

To Windsor for Garter Day, the first since 2019. With a strong voice and smiles for us all, the Queen…

The problem with the bishops in the upper chamber is not that they speak too much, but too little. The…

He really is appalled Prince Charles was reported to have described the government’s plan to send asylum-seekers for processing in…

Is it possible to hold two ideas in our heads at once? If so, I should like to put forward…

I keep reading that Tom Cruise is the Last Great Movie Star, as if he’s some noble but endangered animal.…

The former comedian Sir Lenny Henry has questioned why there seem to be so few black people at rock festivals…

Stock markets are tumbling, but given the tide of economic news, that’s hardly surprising. The S&P 500 index dived into…

Even before the ECHR injunction, the bishops had issued their anathema. All 25 of them in the House of Lords…

There is an uneasy truce in the Tory party. The 148 MPs who voted no confidence in Boris Johnson last…

Mark Vanhoenacker dreams of my nightmares. Ever since he was a young boy, he fantasised about piloting airplanes. Ever since…

A Little Hope, Ethan Joella’s debut novel, is about the lives of a dozen or so ordinary people who live…

Jane Morris, the Pre-Raphaelites’ favourite model, remains as enigmatic as ever, says Frances Wilson

‘Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.’ Albert Einstein’s deft avoidance of the question put to…

Don’t bring a bottle. Your chances of finding a party in full swing down those chilly corridors are close to…

I would guess that contemporary pagans have a love-hate relationship with Ronald Hutton. With books such as The Triumph of…

When the 13 colonies of the United States declared independence in 1776, the first country to recognise the new nation…

If you were hoping for an autobiography this isn’t it. Jarvis Cocker calls it ‘an inventory’ and insists: ‘This is…

It was sad to see Ray Liotta, that magnificent actor, had died the other week. He was most famous for…

James Graham has made his considerable name writing political-based dramas of a highly unusual type: non-polemical ones. And this certainly…

I’ve always felt uncomfortably ambivalent about the work of Matthew Bourne. Of course, there is no disputing its infectious exuberance…

Harry Hill’s latest musical traces Tony Blair’s bizarre career from student pacifist to war-mongering plaything of the United States. With…

Richard Bratby on the resurrection of wunderkind Erich Korngold’s long-neglected masterpiece

‘Version’ is an old reggae term I’ve always loved. It refers to a stripped-down, rhythm-heavy instrumental mix of a song,…

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande stars Emma Thompson as a retired, widowed religious education teacher in her sixties who…

When Parsifal finally returns to Montsalvat, it’s Good Friday. He’s trodden the path of suffering but now the sun is…

One of the New York Met Gala stylists is sharing tips for wearing a corset to an evening do. ‘Breathe…

When the Minister for Blackouts, Bankruptcy and Bull finally announces that, in order to save the planet, we need to…

The word ‘emergency’ has been part of the English language since around 1630. Its most common political use today is…

The perimetric knights are MO FARAH, JASON KENNY, STEVE REDGRAVE and CHRIS HOY, all OLYMPIC WINNERS. Together they have amassed…

Returning to the board, Mamedyarov looks at Anand’s outstretched hand with bemusement. It can’t be a draw offer – that…

White to play. Trent-Carlstedt, Hamburg 2022. Lawrence Trent spotted a way to deliver a quick mate. Which move did he…

In Competition No. 3253, you were invited to write a poem entitled ‘Song of Myself’ in the style of the…

Clockwise round the grid from 7 run the names (8,5,3,3,8,3,8,7,7) of six members of a winning set, the other three…

Q. A close friend, who has lost most of her income in recent years, has done something disfiguring to a…

Last Saturday I went to the opera for only the second time in my life. This was at the invitation…

The LED streetlamp outside my house was fitted with a ‘compromise’ shield acceptable to a vegan that looked as if…

When lockdown struck, high-standard online bridge tournaments sprang up and with them a multitude of cheats, world champions among them,…

He is a rich English lord with a very large house and his wife is a beautiful American with a…

I’m house-sitting for the foreign correspondent while he attends the funeral of his beloved father-in-law Toto, the last of the…

Test cricket, bloody hell! For years, it’s been getting the last rites – now it’s the most exciting way anyone…

Ave Mario looks like Clown Town, a soft-play centre in Finchley with a ball pit so large you could drown…

My husband put one foot forward atan angle to the other and grasped his left hand with his right. ‘Occiditmiseros…