In the 1980s movie Rain Man, the autistic Dustin Hoffman reliably informed Tom Cruise that Qantas was the safest airline…

Having flown to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (Cop 27) in Egypt, Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen has been…

Now Marxism is on the menu

Business gets what it deserves

Yep, I got it wrong

How the Republicans lost

How dangerous are the vaccines?

... and returns empty-handed

Liberty and freedom are disappearing fast

Trump-hating is a distraction

It’s not clear how this pain will end

The world changes but Trump stays the same

Berlusconi reckons he’s the man to broker peace in Ukraine

The bogus companies exploiting Britain’s registration rules

Why do patients need to know they’re dying?

The drug that’s funding the Syrian regime

Are child protection guidelines killing Santa’s appeal?

Had it not been for the Tory leadership contest over the summer, a new censorship law would have been passed…

Zero sense Sir: Ross Clark’s article (‘Hot air’, 12 November) neatly sums up some of the fallacies of the net…

Since the 2008 financial crash, British politics has been moving faster and faster, and becoming less stable. This frenzy reached…

As someone who has always had a grotesquely inflated sense of his own importance, my experience speaking at Durham University…

For about six straight hours after taking magic mushrooms – psilocybin – I had visions of a vast, skeletal shark…

Dame Edna Everage says one of life’s most precious gifts is the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.…

In a recent interview with Piers Morgan, Dr Jordan Peterson remarked, ‘It’s really something to see, constantly, how many people…

There’s advice on pressure cooking and butter-making, plus simple recipes for family meals, Mediterranean vegan dishes and south Asian specialities

The veteran journalist Fergal Keane describes the horror of witnessing atrocities worldwide – and his mystifying compulsion to return for more

Donna Freed finally learns the truth about her biological parents, whose insurance fraud in 1960s America resembled the plot of Double Indemnity

Tom Harper exposes deep-grained criminality at the Met, including actively assisting violent offenders and stealing thousands from the public purse

Lenin and Mussolini were chief among 20th-century leaders who owed their initial success purely to chance, says Ian Kershaw

Twin brothers sponsor a radical building programme in postwar Britain – but the collapse of a tower block raises questions of conscience and accountability

The vast majority of significant finds are now unearthed by amateurs – including the Nebra Sky Disc, the centrepiece of the British Museum’s recent Stonehenge exhibition

A promising plot about a mysterious plane crash is lost in rambling meditations on psychosis, string theory and JFK’s assassination

If you live in the suburb of Hawthorn in the midst of all that leafy greenness, in the federal seat…

Viewers watching a good romcom need to fall in love with three things. The boy, the girl and the affair…

Have you ever seen film of the England 1966 football team holding the World Cup at the Royal Garden Hotel,…

A hotel bellboy, the story goes, discovered George Best in a luxury suite surrounded by scantily clad lovelies and empty…

Headed for San Francisco, Tamara Rojo bows out of her directorship of English National Ballet with an exhilarating triple bill…

Grade: B What’s the worst-ever cover version (after Madonna’s hilarious stab at ‘American Pie’)? I reckon Creedence Clearwater Revival’s interminable…

The Menu is a comedy-horror-thriller set in an exclusive restaurant on a private island and it gives the rich a…

Mathew Lyons on the life lessons of Peanuts

It has become the standard practice of Australian property developers to decorate the hoardings around inner-city construction sites with photographs…

When I was chatting to Peta Credlin on Sky News the question came up of the word ‘normalcy’. It has…

The rude fingers of Battersea are repointed, and barely rude at all. The power station by Giles Gilbert Scott and…

This column may have been somewhat negative about the future of rugby recently – so how cheering to report a…

Should England be participating in the Qatar World Cup? On the face of it, the case for a boycott is…

Kenya Greetings from Africa, my beleaguered cousins. I’ve written before about how in 1973, Uganda’s Idi Amin telegrammed Queen Elizabeth,…

Catriona went to England and Scotland for ten days. The last thing she said to the lean and slippered pantaloon…