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How a leader who cares about civil liberties must act in a pandemic

Malcolm Turnbull’s worst critic is... Malcolm Turnbull

Tales from a ghostly crypt

There is nothing ‘cultural’ about universal human rights

We need fewer migrants, not more

Meghan, the karma chameleon

Diana’s arrow strikes at the heart of the Firm

In another life, we’d be besties

Dumping shareholder capitalism

Australians won’t fall for a fake republic built on lies

It’s only since I moved to Staffordshire that I’ve come to appreciate that some of the finest works of public…

The inevitable listlessness of this year’s awards season

Is Britain heading for war over Taiwan?

The real riddle is why he cosied up to Stalin

An open letter to my golf club

Britain’s leading epidemiologist on the ticking time bomb of long Covid

Why Pontins thinks I’m an ‘undesirable guest’

There’s logic behind the Labour leader’s approach

The dangers of the Starmer-Johnson double act

Meghan’s adroitness Sir: Tanya Gold suggests that people criticise Meghan Markle because she is mixed race and a woman, and…

Calculated risk It is a year since Neil Ferguson’s Imperial College team published the paper that inspired the government to…

Meghan Markle seems to see herself as a ‘victim’. Had she called herself a victima in Rome, it would have…

Piers Morgan may have been the UK equivalent of a TV shock-jock, but there’s another side to him. I’ve known…

Home A Metropolitan Police officer, Wayne Couzens, 48, was charged with the kidnap and murder of 33-year-old Sarah Everard, who…

The power wielded by Nicola Sturgeon and her Scottish government means it’s hard to hold her to account for basic…

Historians of unforeseen crises talk about ‘chaos theory’ and the ‘butterfly effect’, in which a small perturbation far away —…

The recently departed head of MI6, Sir Alex Younger, wants to balance China’s ideological antagonism to the West with the…

With a heavy heart I must return once more to the subject of the Church of England. I recognise that…

A woman called Jenny Jones, now elevated to Baroness Moonbeam, or something, in the House of Lords has proposed a…

The first smear campaign against AstraZeneca, when Emmanuel Macron falsely claimed at the start of the year that the jab…

Probably, most of you will have only the dimmest idea what a ‘fronted adverbial’ is. I used one in the…

‘What job do you want here?’ asked the editor of Vogue, interviewing a young hopeful. From behind her black sunglasses…

In his history of the Pacific War, Eagle Against the Sun, Ronald Spector described the state of the US army…

Okinawa is having a moment. Recently a Telegraph travel destination, to many in the west it’s still unfamiliar except as…

I’ve tried hard to think of someone I dislike enough to recommend this novel to, but have failed. Elfriede Jelinek…

Ella Al-Shamahi is a Brummie, born to a Yemeni Arab family. From a strict Muslim upbringing she transitioned (evidently con…

The gnostic Gospel of Mary has long been the subject of controversy, even as to which of the several Marys…

Sylvie Bermann was the French ambassador in London between 2014 and 2017. Her stint here was a notable success. She…

Philip Hensher feels he should be on Jordan Peterson’s side, but finds it a struggle

When Brett Sheehy, the departing artistic director of the Melbourne Theatre Company took the stage of the Sumner with the…

While admiring the collections of French impressionist paintings in  American galleries, it is easy to think of them as evidence…

In Our Time is the best thing on Radio 4, possibly the best thing on the radio full stop. It…

May the gods of Hiss and Compression bless Lou Ottens. As head of new product development at Phillips, the Dutch…

Richard Bratby on the post-Covid exodus of talent from the performing arts

Copycat Hamiltons are everywhere. Lin-Manuel Miranda led the way by turning an unexamined corner of history into a smash-hit show.…

The premise for the unsnappily titled Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time is this: a Hungarian…

Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland,predicted to win big at this year’s Oscars, is not a terrible film. It’s a slight, sentimental Grapes…

The most headline-grabbing of these three pop docs was Framing Britney Spears, part of the New York Times Presents documentary…

Calls is the very antithesis of televisual soma. In fact it’s so jarring and discomfiting and horrible that I think…

I didn’t plan to watch it. I just happened to switch on my TV as it was starting. And the…

Is there a linguistic solution to the misuse of the word ‘racism’? Under so-called Critical Race Theory almost everything is…

‘Welcome to Victims First. Please leave your name and number and we will return your call. Beeeeeeeeeeeep!’ I had rung…

The last time I went to a football game was on Saturday 7 March last year when my 12-year-old son…

For those with neither the time nor inclination to plough through a PhD in the intricacies of the scandals surrounding…

Q. Before Covid, I was staying with friends in the country every other weekend. As a single man living in…

Restaurant-goers who cannot let go of restaurants — for professional or other reasons — are floating on a sea of…

Black to play. Kosteniuk–Koneru, Skolkovo Grand Prix, 2019. The obvious 1…Kg3 fails to 2 Rg5+ Kf4 3 Rg4+. Losing the…

If anyone is going to cause me agonies at the bridge table in front of 800 kibitzers by subjecting me…

Gstaad Some of you may have noticed that I have not commented at all about the ongoing soap opera and…

‘This is the book that horses wish every equestrian would read,’ says the blurb for Sacred Spaces: Communion with the…

Four unclued lights are places in Britain with MARY in their name. The remaining unclued lights can be linked with…

The unclued lights are all non-words, but each can be resolved into a pair of thematic solutions. Across 1 Game…

In Competition No. 3190 you were invited to submit the first paragraph of your least favourite type of novel. Sci-fi…

I write this with a sunny feeling. That’s partly because spring is upon us, but mostly because I have just…

Thanks to Covid, there could be no spine-tingling roar at the Cheltenham Festival this year as the first race runners…

One day last week we did a wine run up to Manosque in the foothills of the Alps, leaving early…