They were the three words of the week, if not of the year: ‘vaccine’, ‘mandates’ and ‘unlawful’. That was the…

Guess what! The Liberal party in Victoria and its leader John Pesutto have actually shown some backbone, principle and commitment…

What’s the best collective noun for academics?

Who gave them the power? They did

US elites are at war with their citizens

Tony Abbott slams conservative fascination with Putin

The minister is all at sea

Don’t hold your breath

Australian public servants are out of control

Let’s do the Turnbull-Morrison time warp

World on the brink of calamity

Jerusalem After midnight on Thursday is dead-time for the Israeli media. The weekend editions have gone to print (newspapers don’t…

Riga, Latvia At the age of 74, Inessa Novikova, who is ethnically Russian, was told she had to learn Latvian…

The Happy Clappies – evangelical Christians who clap along to worship songs during church services – have been around since…

The pretensions of the Young British Artists are lampooned in Carty’s debut novel – but there’s still something irresistible about the 1990s London it recreates

As a foreign correspondent for the New York Times, Rod Nordland learned to expect many dangers, but a brain tumour wasn’t one of them

Even by the Villa Diodati’s standards, Claire Clairmont was unconventional, seducing Byron when she was 18, and giving birth to their child after a possible affair with Shelley

Ancient Greek philosophers reckoned that life was all about free time, but 16th-century puritanism dealt a blow to the old festive culture from which we’ve never fully recovered

Alice Roberts’s examinations of violent deaths in the past take her to the site of Becket’s murder in Canterbury cathedral and the later destruction of his shrine by Henry VIII

Arden’s novel spares us no details of trench warfare on the Western Front and the severely traumatised men dreaming of escape into amnesia

Charles Beaumont’s warped group, recruited by an eccentric fellow of Jesus College, seems all too plausible. Other thrillers from Celia Walden and Matthew Blake

Emperor Babur’s beloved daughter – whose name means ‘body like a rose’ – speaks to us across the centuries in a cliffhanging account of royal life in Hindustan

The apex predator is making a startling resurgence in Europe – many say to the enrichment of the landscape. But it’ll take a lot to convince the British of that

When a freak occurrence wrecked the Baileys’ sloop 300 miles from the Galapagos, their chances of rescue were minimal – and one of them couldn’t even swim

It was fascinating to catch up with the Grammys the other night. There was the cheering sight of Miley Cyrus…

Next month in London, they’re celebrating a composer you’ve probably never heard of, but whose work you’re sure to have…

In a provincial Victorian city a vast brooding monolith has recently obtruded itself into the ‘built environment’, usurping the church…

As if the sheer horrors of the Hamas attacks on Israel weren’t bad enough, now someone has coined the expression…

I was shocked to read about the behaviour of Joe Biden’s dog, Commander. According to a CNN report based on…

A quarter of a century ago I somehow managed to get out of Paris where I had haunted a cheap…