The war in Ukraine has fundamentally changed the outlook for the forthcoming federal election. It is unlikely, once the gravity…

Putin’s brutal imperialism Putin signalled early during his rule his fury that Moscow’s former empire had slipped the leash. After…

Is there a Putin-Xi pact?

How not to fill the energy gap

(Can someone switch off the damn machine?)

‘Modern’ Libs could learn a thing or two from DeSantis

The truth is the West lied to Gorbachev

The civilisation Australians are used to won’t last much longer

The pandemic turns two in a world where freedom is under assault

Does Anthony Albanese understand the anger of blue-collar workers?

Beware the folly of net zero

The West must provide more weapons, sanctions and a path to Europe

What is really to blame for the cost of living crisis?

Slugs and snails are the bane of every gardener who tries to grow strawberries, leafy and tuberous vegetables, flowering bulbs…

Putin’s invasion has exposed the West’s impotence

Prince Philip’s links with the Russian imperial court

It was once one of Britain’s best universities. What happened?

Soviet-style brutality lives again

Might war in Ukraine boost populism?

The arrest of a reporter who held up a poster during a Russian news broadcast criticising the war in Ukraine…

Thamesky Prospekt Who first coined the place name ‘Londongrad’? The name was used in a BBC sitcom called Comrade Dad,…

Two Russias? Sir: I have been turning Owen Matthews’s article (‘Putin’s rage’, 5 March) over in my mind since I…

  Skopje, North Macedonia In the West, it’s tempting to believe that revulsion at Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is…

The ex-Speaker John Bercow has been found to be a serial bully and serial liar. The ancients would have had…

Home More than 100,000 people registered interest in giving a place in their homes for Ukrainian refugees under a government…

It is tempting to believe that we have gone from one crisis to another: Russia invaded Ukraine hours after Covid…

I remember my father telling me about Imre Nagy’s final broadcast before the Hungarian leader was taken by the Russians…

President Biden’s executive order ‘Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets’ won praise on all sides, an unfamiliar experience for one…

For many of us war voyeurs watching the news with a glass of sherry, admiration of the little-engine-that-could Ukrainian fighters…

At the heart of the West’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sits an ambiguity that it is convenient, perhaps…

Over recent days I have been reflecting on War and Peace. Or Special Operation and Peace as it must now…

Once upon a time there was a collection of stories that everybody loved. They involved brave heroes such as Perseus…

Take a walk in the English countryside and you get the impression that little has changed. The churches and farmhouses,…

Remember ashtrays in cars? Soon cars will themselves become objects of wet-eyed nostalgic reverie. A thrilling era of propelling ourselves,…

Paula Byrne describes life at Oxford University in its eccentric heyday

Caught outside at the start of a raid in the Belfast Blitz as the incendiary bombs rain down, Audrey looks…

If vivid, drily hilarious tales about messy families stuffed with passive aggression and seething resentment are your thing, you will…

Anne Tyler’s 24th novel French Braid opens in 2010 in Philadelphia train station. We find the teenage Serena, who has…

There are moments when you wish the theatre would just be swallowed up and be as if it had never…

Robert Gore-Langton on the man who wrecked New York

Bloody Difficult Women is a documentary drama by the popular journalist Tim Walker, which looks at the similarities between Gina…

Without fanfare or apology, the Royal Ballet appears to have rehabilitated Liam Scarlett, but what a tragic balls-up it has…

It took a moment to realise Keeley Forsyth was there. There were already three musicians, faint figures on a dark…

Scottish Opera’s new production of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream seems to open in midwinter. Snow falls, fairies hurl snowballs…

Phantom of the Open is a comedy-drama telling a true story that would have to be true as no one…

Notoriously, the past is another country: what’s more, it’s a terrain for which the guidebooks need constantly to be rewritten.…

A couple of years ago, I happened to read Graham Norton’s third novel Home Stretch. Rather patronisingly, perhaps, I was…

Prime ministers rarely lose elections by bungling a single issue. An obvious benefit of the four-year term is that if…

According to news reports Vladimir Putin expected his invasion and conquest of Ukraine to be a ‘cakewalk’. This is originally…

Richard Rapport took first place at the Fide Grand Prix in Belgrade last weekend. The Hungarian grandmaster is now almost…

If western universities were not brimming with leftist professors, the present situation in Ukraine would surprise no one. History would…

White to play. Rapport-Rogic, Austria 2010. Black threatens Qa1+ and then Rxf2+, so Rapport must strike at once. Which move…

I still haven’t got over the novelty of sitting down at home, opening my laptop, and – just like fantasy…

In 2019, Boris Johnson hit out at ‘the doomsters and the gloomsters’. I was surprised then to find that the…

My dear friend Richard Stow is a most congenial fellow. A serious financial entrepreneur, he is also a clubman and…

The (unrelated) unclued lights (one of three words, four of two words, (one with an apostrophe), one pair and two…

I spend quite a lot of time attacking what I call ‘motorway service station’ path design. More attentive readers of…

You don’t always have to win to enjoy it. At the end of the £100,000 Paddy Power Imperial Cup at…

Q. These days I am on a tight budget while many of my friends are still able to spend freely.…

By the time you read this the new draft of the Online Safety Bill should be on the DCMS website.…

Kitsch is something of my stock-in-trade. And it doesn’t get more kitsch than Black Forest gateau. Pots of cream, pints…

The lodger looked at me blankly and pronounced wearily, as though intoning something he was tired of parroting, that I…

First prize Leigh Hughes, Bootle, Merseyside Runners-up Francis Wheen, Pleshey, Essex; Robin Jolly, Selsey, Chichester, West Sussex

In Competition No. 3240, you were invited to tell the life story of a well-known figure in three limericks. In…

Catriona has a commission to paint the 17th-century façade of the chapel of St Joseph’s. She’d made a start when…