The news that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has bought himself a luxury multi-million dollar clifftop pad perched high above the…

It is great to return Down Under after first coming here in 2019 to start trade talks. We closed the…

The dangerous obfuscation of ‘misinformation’

Round and round the rubbish economic theories go

Our economic crisis is due to a lack of creative destruction

Communism’s evil curse

We’re all being force-fed the Grand Mufti’s leftovers

And why multiculturalism is failing

Thank God (and Allah?) for Israel

The Continent’s ever more wobbly woke-left

Leadership above politics sacrosanct

As Kim Leadbeater’s private member’s bill comes before the Commons, the former justice secretary Lord Falconer (who introduced a similar…

What do we mean these days when we talk about the British ‘establishment’? When Henry Fairlie coined the term in…

Even at the best of times, Keir Starmer has remained tantalisingly out of reach for those who crave simple definitions.…

If there’s one thing to bring out your inner Herod, it’s the twee tendency in younger children’s books. It’s at…

As a championship chess player, Rachel Reeves must know that the first few moves can be some of the most…

Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s first female Prime Minister, has this week achieved what the Tories failed so fatally to do with…

It’s a sunny October morning at a bull-breeding ranch north of Seville, and 82-year-old Frank Evans is preparing to step…

Ukraine’s President Zelensky was in Downing Street last week – as well as Paris, Rome, Berlin and Dubrovnik – asking…

The best thing about being a playwright? The satisfaction of creativity. The worst? Press-night parties attended by friends, industry people…

Home Neither Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, nor Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, ruled out a rise…

In an ideal world, I wouldn’t have chosen an election year for my American book tour. It’s not that I…

There have been few acts of terrorist violence on British soil as grotesque as the Manchester Arena bombing in May…

Boris Johnson’s Unleashed imagines him, like Cincinnatus, leaving his plough, saving Rome, and returning to it. But given that Boris…

Still afloat Transport Secretary Louise Haigh nearly lost Britain an investment in an expansion of London Gateway docks by calling…

Industrial waste Sir: I endorse your concerns about the closure of Grangemouth and Port Talbot and the statement that ‘if…

Are homosexuals and transgendered people more at risk from natural disasters than the rest of the population? I dare say…

James Cleverly found some unlikely support in parliament on Monday night. Having just been ousted from the Tory leadership contest,…

As I write, the Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, is flying to China. So I am only guessing when I say…

You can tell a lot about a country by who it admires. I was pleasantly surprised some years ago to…

One of the many good reasons to want every new generation to study the second world war is that it…

Scheduling the Budget almost four months after their election victory would have counted as a monumental misjudgment for the Labour…

After a distinguished spell on the Times, Cockburn launched The Week in 1933, whose scoops on Nazi Germany became essential reading for politicians, diplomats and journalists alike

Lucy Hughes-Hallett traces the brief, dramatic career of the handsome Duke of Buckingham – scapegoat for the early Stuarts’ extravagance and incompetence

Winton’s teenage Australian protagonist is recruited by the sinister Service organisation in its crusade against the billionaires whose profiteering has cooked the planet

The Korean-born Masayoshi Son – who lost $58.6 billion in 2000 – has a fascination with Napoleon, compares himself to Genghis Khan and is now reinventing himself as a futurist

A collection of essays, poems and fiction – ‘offcuts’ of a lifetime spent ‘working with a pen’ – marks Alan Garner’s 90th year

Martin Gayford finds artists from Rembrandt to De Kooning mixing pigment, egg and oil together with all the skill of an accomplished chef

Terror and distrust build in the Anderson family after a six-year-old girl is found murdered in a quiet Kent village

Peter Godwin’s third volume to date – of a family in various stages of decline after leaving their African homeland – is redeemed by its vivid evocations and erudition

The tabloids in particular stirred up fear and distrust with lurid stories of orgies, prostitution, drug-taking, political corruption, sinister concealment and susceptibility to blackmail

You can hardly complain about the state of classical music in this country at the moment. The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra…

Strange title, Juno and the Paycock. Sean O’Casey’s family drama is about a hard-pressed Dublin matriarch, Juno, whose husband Jack…

For most of my adult life, clever, well-read, feminist women have told me how much they love Jilly Cooper. It…

Grade: B- Given that Carrie and Corin are now in their fifties and one of them has settled down with…

It’s rare nowadays to see a new opera production that’s set in the period that the composer and librettist intended,…

The Apprentice is a dramatised biopic of Donald Trump, covering his early business years. He has called the film ‘FAKE…

It doesn’t matter which dictionary you consult, they all agree on what a song is: words, set to music, that…

I think I’m through with Hofesh Shechter, and that’s a pity, because earlier work of his such as Political Mother…

When Max Ernst was asked by an American artist to define surrealism at a New York gathering of exiles in…

Everyone has a Dan Andrews statue opinion. After two years of Covid lockdowns, rings of steel, #IluvDan hashtags and daily…

Given the time of year we must once again be ready to pull sour faces and make rude noises when…

Competition 3371 invited you to rewrite the lyrics of ‘Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off’ to be sung not by…

I almost choked on my cornflakes when I read that the Prime Minister had said he would slash red tape…

Sailing’s very own ubermensch Sir Ben Ainslie has every right to be considered the world’s most competitive bloke. Those who…

It was a few months ago. I was coming back from my morning walk with Greta in Battersea Park, so…

There’s nothing more intriguing than a closely guarded secret recipe. Coca-Cola and KFC are two famous examples, with the precise…

Somebody up there doesn’t like me much at the moment. The bank insists that two cash machines which failed to…

‘My name is Love,’ typed the help assistant, ‘and I’m a member of the Airbnb community support team.’ I was…