Once upon a time there lived a generation who believed they knew far more about the world than their elders…

There is so much ill-informed commentary on the proposed Aboriginal Voice and whether it will generate divisive litigation, that it…

The announcement of the route we will take to acquire nuclear submarines is good only in parts. Down the road…

And the award goes to... Jimbo!

Leave our fables alone

Kennedy and I would agree on almost everything. Does that make him ‘hard right’?

A Christian social conservative to lead Scotland?

A priceless biobank with the answers to long Covid is threatened with destruction

What climate crisis?

Union superfunds’ questionable assets need fixing

Could it be Credit Suisse?

We are in a new era of economic uncertainty

The truth about single motherhood

Today’s sexual politics is damaging young men

Why I used to pretend to be working class

How Britain can help Taiwan

There was plenty of miserable economic news in this week’s Budget: the highest taxes imposed by any peacetime government, the…

Channel anger Sir: I fear that in your leading article (‘Our duty to refugees’, 11 March) you find yourself in the…

The paradox of Rishi Sunak’s premiership is that even though he became Prime Minister because of the economy, it’s the…

I would be very happy if I never had to hear the name Gary Lineker again. He was a vague…

This week Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian to win Best Actress at the Oscars – and not by playing…

There was a kind of peak BBC Radio 4 moment last week when the network put on a play called…

When it comes to the Voice, Anthony Albanese is breaking all the rules for successfully changing the constitution. First, he…

After his mother’s murder, the teenage Ellroy seemed lost to speed and alcohol – until his discovery of crime writing led to a different addiction

When distraught teenage Orla embarks on a secret pilgrimage to her mother’s grave, she meets a ‘mad hairy’ man with miraculous powers

St Cuthbert’s body, rescued from the ‘devilish Danes’, is carried for hundreds of years to its eventual shrine in Durham cathedral

Benjamin Netanyahu has won a staggering sixth term in office – but his alliance with the disreputable right is inching Israel close to catastrophe

The Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie regales us with stories of mistaken identity, hymns with erotic undertones and an archbishop’s surprising take on Lenten penance

A mathematics professor, who specialises in the idea of nothing, is approached by a would-be Bond villain with a dastardly plan of annihilation

But the big ideas seem mainly to consist in acquiring new skills – like boxing and baking – and flexing the imagination muscle

Nicholas Spencer insists they are – and his scientific knowledge is impressive. But do his religious arguments carry weight?

Philip Hensher follows Noël Coward from precocious childhood to the vortex of fame

You need only pick up Tim Robertson’s Reliques/Pomes to know that you’re in the presence of a man with an…

The German composer Max Reger, born 150 years ago next week, is mostly remembered today for countless elephantine fugues and…

Further than the Furthest Thing is an allegorical play set on a remote island populated by English-speakers from all over…

There are several reasons why Young Fathers currently feel like the most exciting live band in Britain, but for now…

One of the lesser-known schools of modern philosophy is the Philosophy of Moomin. Like Cynicism or Epicureanism, it is difficult…

The death last week at the age of 83 of the sublime Lynn Seymour – muse to Ashton and MacMillan,…

Allelujah, based on the stage play by Alan Bennett, is set in a geriatric ward in a Yorkshire hospital and…

Chris Rock was paid $20 million for his 70-minute Netflix special, so by my reckoning his riff on whether or…

Lucie Rie had no time for high-flown talk about the art of ceramics. ‘I like to make pots – but…

As the cult series draws to its conclusion, Tanya Gold travels to Morsefest in Oxford
to meet the detective’s devoted followers

A new Arts policy has been released to help raise the creative standard just as a balding redhead called Ed…

The word ‘manifestation’ has been part of the English language since the 1400s. It comes from the verb ‘to manifest’…

Mister Nice is not so much a restaurant as a pre-dawn thought flung into the drag between Piccadilly Circus and…

Yeast scares even some of the most proficient cooks. I know home cooks and professionals alike, food writers and fanatics,…

Rejoice, as you don’t normally say after a hammering like the peerless French dished out to England at Twickenham. But…

On Monday, Suella Braverman published draft guidance designed to rein in the police habit of recording a ‘non-crime hate incident’…

1A, 7A, 18A, 40A, 46A and 47A are all on the new Elizabeth Line, which appears in the grid when…

Unclued lights provide three definitions each of a whole word and of its two syllables. Solvers should highlight the word…

In Competition No. 3290, you were invited to recast the Lord’s Prayer as a sonnet. The late Frank Kermode reckoned…

When Wilfred Thesiger arrived in the port of Al Mukalla after his foot crossing of the Empty Quarter desert with…

After they banned horses from the village green and surrounding common land, I set about trying to find out why,…

‘They say they can’t do it tomorrow. The papers haven’t come.’ Catriona, just back from the village, was shouting up…