Abbott-watchers amateur and professional are still having trouble coming to grips with the Prime Minister’s foreign policy. The latest intellectual…

Monday nights are back to normal and I can watch the new season of Game of Thrones, the brilliant dungeons…

Bob Carr’s Diary of a Foreign Minister is further evidence for those who need it. Years ago the late John…

Some years ago, on a flight from Adelaide to Sydney, while putting my hand luggage in the overhead compartment, I…

The former foreign minister is being attacked for being a quirky, witty and irreverent diarist

The latest IPCC trilogy has taken lessons from Hollywood

How the Left, here and abroad, is trying to shut down debate —  from Islam and Israel to global warming and gay marriage

When we talk about morals, we end up back talking about religion. That's a good thing

It's disturbingly hard to say so

A rare interview with Ukraine's mystery billionaire

One of the most feared diseases in the world is now, for British doctors, a manageable chronic condition. It’s a triumph we’re oddly scared to talk about

Piero della Francesca, maths and masterpieces

A savvy visitor's guide to the post-crisis Greek capital

The Russian leader's speeches set out a clear expansionist agenda. It needs answering

Home Nigel Evans, who had resigned as deputy speaker before being cleared of a bundle of rape and sexual assault…

Plus: One reason for looking forward to Scottish independence

If they feel hounded now…

When the wind blows Sir: Clare Oxford’s piece (‘Gone with the wind turbines’, 12 April) is both timely and sad.…

Plus: A royal visits league table, and the earning power of degrees

The religious divide in the Tory side of the coalition

Plus: MPs' expenses 1945 style, and the hunt for the Stonegate fare-dodger

Ordinary people still put common sense and fairness ahead of crusading zeal – thank God

I liked the generic title ‘Another Voice’ that The Spectator used to give this column, because it seemed to loosen…

The immigrant experience changes you, as well as where you move to

Plus: An outburst of dotcom common sense, and Tesco’s latest troubles

A review of The Literary Churchill: Author, Reader, Actor, by Jonathan Rose. The stopped-clock version of how Churchill got the fascists right is horribly convincing. But he still ends up the hero

A review of Edgar Degas: Drawings and Pastels, by Christopher Lloyd. Are great draughtsmen rarer than great painters? Here is one

The Smoke is Rising, by Mahesh Rao, and The Strangler Vine, by M.J. Carter. A funny, angry view of contemporary India, and a Boy's Own picture of one of its past tipping points

A review of The Hotel on Place Vendôme, by Tilar J. Mazzeo. A prism on the German occupation that gathers all of the old Paris icons under one roof

A review of A Poisonous Thorn in Our Hearts, by James Copnall. This account of the secession of South Sudan makes good on its claim to portray one of the world's most interesting places

Dearest Jane..., by Jane Torday and Roger Mortimer, shows that there's still life in one of publishing's least expected success stories

A review of The Temporary Gentleman, by Sebastian Barry. The compulsive story of a lovable failure

Writers' Block, by Judith Flanders, is a wicked insider satire as well as an enjoyable caper

A review of Medieval Wall Paintings, by Roger Rosewell. An invaluable guide to the church art we've lost – and what survived

A review of I Used to be in Pictures, by Austin Mutti-Mewse and Howard Mutti-Mewse. Photos and anecdotes from classic Hollywood's ultimate superfans

We are not, by our nature, a militaristic people, and it is significant that our most well-known military venture was…

He's been called the greatest colourist of all time. This show is not merely enjoyable; it's awe-inspiring

The actor on the advantages and drawbacks of a famous father, and on bringing back a Restoration anti-hero

Wagner can be less pagan than it looks

Plus: Through his Teeth and The Crackle at the Linbury Studio, and Prince Igor at the Coliseum

Christopher Wheeldon's take on The Winter's Tale straddles categories, sometimes uncomfortably

Plus: A Small Family Business may tell you a bit much of what Alan Ackbourn thinks about his audiences

A stuffed-crust pizza of a blockbuster

In praise of Martha Kearney

Good Friday from The Archers to Radio 3's Essay

Susan Aldworth's lithographs at the Blyth Gallery, South Kensington

And what else the reverend has been up to

In the blue corner, the Ninja. In the red corner, Mr Chops. Slumped in the corner, their poor dad

Cydney, Twiggy, and chaos

Casualties in the Chancellor household so far: two rabbits, and vocal score of White Christmas

How attacks on betting terminals could hurt racing

I have always been drawn to a bit of a rogue and I must admit I found the coughing German…

The erratic Ukrainian grandmaster Vassily Ivanchuk has scored an overwhelming victory in a rapidplay tournament sponsored by the Latvian railway.…

Black to play. This is from Kantans-Malakhov, Latvian Railway Open, Riga 2014. Black has achieved a tremendous build-up on the…

In Competition No. 2843 you were given a list of poets’ surnames — motion, bridges, wilde, gray, cope, hood, burns…

The unclued lights (33 with I) are of a kind, all verifiable in Chambers under the appropriate headword.   Across…

The unclued lights are SIBYLS (the title was an anagram of BILLY’S with L omitted). First prize Judith Bevis, Newport,…

Some time I may feel more fear than I did ten years ago, in my son's first frightening days. But I hope not

An Easter parable, and an ode to fat golfers

Plus: a cure for reader's block

Strange goings on at the third corner of Knightsbridge's celebrity-chef triangle

Multiverse has too many meanings to be clear; but multi-universe is no better