Australians live in a dangerous era. The Prime Minister of the day, a communist sympathiser in his youth, wishes to…

You would think that by now the Liberal party would have caught on to how political parties should promote their…

If your best friends won’t tell you, who will?

Illiberal policies are threatening our hard-won freedoms

$100 million a day and Labor wants a blank cheque

How the suits are emasculating the boots

Labor’s factions march to the beat of the globalist drum

The ABC’s misconduct continues to be ‘breathtaking in its audacity’

...and no future

Petty crime is now being run by organised gangs

Don’t be surprised if Albo abandons his blank-cheque referendum

Could a new gimmick help me find love?

Students need a drunken freshers’ week

Is university still worth it?

The love affair between Britain and Germany is over

How to watch real football

he new head of the IPCC on the need to move beyond eco alarmism

‘You’re late. About four years too late.’ The lady in the car-hire office gave a casual shrug and turned her…

The Ukraine conflict has spread to Russia’s classrooms

Lee Anderson, deputy chairman of the Conservative party, popped a few monocles by saying asylum seekers reluctant to stay on…

This week Norfolk and Suffolk constabularies confessed that, replying to a freedom of information request, they had managed to release…

So far, Keir Starmer has been unmoved by complaints from left-wingers that his policies differ little from those of Boris…

My default mood at the moment is bleak despair, although it can sometimes be triggered into nihilistic loathing, which I…

The only strikes I really enjoy are actors’ strikes. Teachers’ strikes leave me cold. Train strikes get me into a…

During the few hot days we had in June, I came across my first tub of dog ice-cream nestled among…

Five short stories with male narrators – including a seahorse and a vampire – revolve around masculinity’s contradictory demands and the wish to belong

The painted-over figure of Baudelaire’s muse eventually emerging from Courbet’s great canvas provides one of many haunting images in this complex novel

Clive Oppenheimer feels a deep kinship with the many volcanoes he has studied. When he is airlifted from Mount Erebus, he suffers ‘the heartache of leaving a lover’

Japan’s ramen ‘tradition’ was created in 1958 to use up surplus imported flour, while Pizza Margherita’s specious royal connection helped boost Naples’s tourist trade

With rewilding projects multiplying worldwide, brown, black and grizzly bears are making a bold comeback. But how much bear can we bear?

Admirers of the novels have always enjoyed identifying their settings where possible, but Dickens’s old haunts are now mainly glimpsed in street names or blue plaques

In 2015, a dedicated DEA agent pursues a Mafia capo involved in a vast cocaine shipment, a Hezbollah militia leader and an elaborate Middle Eastern arms-trafficking ring

Lauren Bacall was 25 years younger than Humphrey Bogart. Unlike his previous wives, she stayed – though Roger Lewis finds something creepy about their relationship

It’s fifty years they tell us since the creation of Utzon’s Opera House and it’s strange to think how this…

Some years ago, Mark Millar (the creator of Kick-Ass, Kingsman, etc.) hit on yet another brilliant conceit for one of…

‘Audience Choice’ was the promise at the Budapest Festival Orchestra’s Sunday matinee Prom, and come on – who could resist…

There should really be a special word for it: that vicarious fragility you feel when hearing of a minor decision…

Based on the poster showing two cute dogs – a border terrier and a Boston terrier – I had assumed…

The Mitfords is a superb one-woman show by Emma Wilkinson Wright who focuses her attention on Unity, Diana and Jessica.…

In March 1913 two horse painters met at the Lyceum Club to discuss the establishment of a Society of Animal…

I have always been fascinated by artists who bounce between tonal extremes when performing, particularly the ones who serve their…

Barnaby Rogerson on how his collaboration with a great photographer has brought the ancient world very close

At the end of the second world war, socialists around the world still believed in the inevitable overthrow of capitalism…

We all know J.R.R. Tolkien from his epic The Lord of the Rings, voted best novel of the 20th century.…

The last meal my parents had before I graced the world with my presence was fish and chips, so I…

Sarehole Mill is four miles south of the centre of Birmingham. If this were a fairy tale, and it should…

England’s preparation for the upcoming rugby World Cup is beginning to look like a slow-motion car crash, after two pathetic…

Last week, a retired physics professor called Nick Cowern said it was time to get tough with ‘climate denialists’. ‘In…

‘What a worry the Ulez must be for you both,’ said a friend with a nod to the pick-up truck…

  On board Aello She was built in 1921, a beautiful wooden ketch that is as graceful to look at…