One of the most important Australian novels of the last few decades is Boy Swallows Universe, the semi-autobiographical debut by…

I was rather pleased to be pulled aside by Australian Border Force when I arrived in Brisbane as a guest…

Debasement of political discourse is to blame

Worth a chuckle and a tear

A currency designed to fail

America’s Secret Service meets Inspector Clouseau

It’s not social media spreading misinformation about the assassination attempt

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Did the Hand of God save Donald Trump?

The left love twisting words

Constitutional design is too important to leave to ‘republicans’

I was hoping to fly the first hydrogen balloon across the Atlantic and had been waiting for a year to…

Future House is a weird private members’ club. There’s a mattress on the floor for napping, a bathtub designed to…

It’s probably escaped most people’s attention, what with the football, the election, the Ukraine war, the horrors of Gaza, the…

‘You’re gonna be so blessed,’ said Pastor James Roemke, doing a pretty good Donald Trump impersonation in the warm-up to…

It shows a remarkable level of confidence from Donald Trump that he’s chosen for his running-mate the man who once…

Milwaukee, Wisconsin If you want to see how Donald Trump has changed his party, look at what attendees wore to…

Over the past three decades, astronomers have discovered planets orbiting Sun-like stars throughout the universe. This discovery ended 2,500 years…

Liberal Democrat activists were reportedly told to ‘get out the Gail’s vote’, targeting people who visit the over-priced artisanal cafés.…

Kharkiv region Moonlight shines on the wings of the reconnaissance drone as it glides over the field. Within minutes, the…

Sitting ducks Sir: James Heale is right to highlight the important question about Rishi Sunak’s replacement (‘Who will lead the…

The Polish constitution delineates no role for the foreign minister’s wife. In fact, the foreign minister’s wife is not mentioned…

Home The government funnelled three dozen bills into the King’s Speech, highlighting one to make a specific offence of spiking…

Concerns have been raised in recent months after an outbreak of avian flu caused by the virus H5N1 was detected…

The Labour party is preparing to get weak on crime and release one batch of criminals to bang up another.…

Rain or shine Has a wet St Swithin’s Day (15 July) ever been followed by 40 wet days or a…

Market reactions to the assassination attempt in Pennsylvania represent, according to taste, rational bets on the significantly increased likelihood of…

There’s no shortage of people who have spent recent years comparing Donald Trump with Adolf Hitler. Among other places, the…

Labour MPs ought to have been jubilant when they gathered for their weekly all-party parliamentary meeting on Monday. Most were…

There is a small section of the Labour party which I greatly admire – those on the party’s right, often…

I detected a degree of surprise among those people who were uncommonly cheered by Sir Keir Starmer’s election victory that…

Last week at the Buxton International Festival I joined a big audience for an onstage interview with Anna Reid. She’s…

Believe it or not, I planned to write the gist of this column before Saturday night. However, a caveat. Unlike…

Laila Mickelwait appears to wage a one-woman crusade to shut down a major distributor of rape and child abuse videos

My writing is mere bricolage … whatever I do, I only half do’, wails Michel Leiris in the final volume of his self-lacerating autobiography

When Ilka Weisz, a young refugee from Vienna, accepts a teaching post in smalltown Connecticut, she struggles to make friends in the close-knit academic community

Aged 13, Henry VII’s eldest daughter was dispatched to marry James IV of Scotland. But a precarious truce between the kingdoms soon ended with the Battle of Flodden

Back with his family in suburban Philadelphia after seven years of solid boozing, Dennis Monk tries to make amends for past misdemeanours. But will he succeed?

A young chambermaid joins the Hugo household in Guernsey and soon finds herself summoned at night to her master’s adjoining bedroom

Before his genius was widely recognised, the blues singer known as Lead Belly survived not only America’s most brutal prisons but cruel betrayal by his racist ‘manager’

Technology unquestionably improves lives, says Ray Kurzwei, and soon we’ll be living to 150. As for 3D-printed guns invisible to scanners – there’ll be a solution to those too

When Richard Sudell began promoting pyracantha, hanging baskets and crazy paving in the 1920s, the backlash from the gardening elite was vicious and immediate

Two detailed, on-the-ground accounts from Andrey Kurkov and Oleksandr Mykhed remind us of the atrocities that are changing life in Ukraine forever

Despite Baron Coubertin’s ideals, nationalistic friction at the Paris Games in 1924 had already prompted a Times headline: ‘Olympics doomed’

Twisters is an action-disaster film that follows ‘storm-chasers’ and is so relentless in its own pursuit of tornadoes that plot,…

Do men and women need different podcasts? The notion goes against the unisex, every-sex, what-is-sex-anyway culture we have come to…

We hear a lot about the rights of the child, but the first I heard of the child’s right to…

There’s nothing quite like the drama of a prodigal’s return. ‘I’ve been singing in this venue since I was ten…

Most of my favourite TV shows seem to involve gangsters in one way or another: The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Top…

This prophecy Merlin shall make, for I live before his time. One of the most thrilling aspects of the Tippett…

Visit From An Unknown Woman, adapted by Christopher Hampton from a short story by Stefan Zweig, opens like an episode…

People have always fiddled with Shakespeare. Nahum Tate did not give King Lear a happy ending because he was a…

Age. At the Spectator party last week, the editor asked me how long I had been attending the festivity. I…

Logan Paul, a wrestler with 23 million YouTube subscribers, called Donald Trump’s immediate reaction to his shooting ‘the most badass…

I felt slightly anxious for Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg when I read he’d agreed to have a reality show made about…

Q. I ride a bike from Chiswick to the City each morning. It is a ten-mile journey that takes 45…

I always think of my father at this time of year. In particular, I go back to the summer of…

‘If you are calling about sinusitis, sore throat, earache in children, infected inset bite from the UK not overseas, impetigo,…

After 250 years of American independence, a nation home to many of the smartest and most talented people in the…

Not very long ago, the propensity of some Australians to sit around watching other people do things on screens rather…

In the light of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump we need to look at this term ‘assassination’. The core…