The expulsion of Moira Deeming from the Victorian Liberal party requires one simple question to be answered: what is the…

There are currently 27 members of the European Union and there are applications to join from eight additional countries –…

The federal Liberal party must now intervene

And why the Libs need a Canadian makeover

The Victorian budget looms

Authoritarian WHO is now the globalists’ nanny

The martyrdom of Moira

People are dying as politicians ignore the real problems afflicting Aboriginal communities

Why nobody is talking about the long-established indigenous Voice to the ACT parliament

But, no, we can’t take in everyone

Continuing half a century of failed ‘solutions’

Brexit has led to more immigration than ever

The blurred lines between sport and entertainment

In Serbia, the gun is a way of life

The Nigerian politician, the Lagos street trader and the foiled kidney transplant plot

Europe’s net-zero backlash

Lithuania’s Prime Minister on what a Ukrainian victory would look like

Our country still excels when it comes to higher education. Britain has seven of the world’s top 50 universities. In…

The wonderful Barbara Kingsolver wrote that hope is something you should not admire from a distance, but rather live inside…

I had the sudden suspicion, at about ten o’clock on Saturday night, that I was the only straight male in…

Ever since Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister, his aides have worried that May would be the month of mutiny. His…

Not to sound too much like Kamala Harris during one of her peregrinations on the nature of time, but the…

Since at least the beginning of this century there has been a mood abroad – cultural as well as political…

After the media bigged up the expiration of America’s Covid-era Title 42, which enabled the US to block entries into…

Nicholas Clee provides gripping stories of famous horses, jockeys and trainers, along with a history of racing itself and the best places to watch the spectacle

Malcolm Harris is unsparing in his attack on Palo Alto’s tech giants past and present, including Leland Stanford, Herbert Hoover, William Shockley and Peter Thiel

Sylvia Patterson manages to bring much rackety humour to bear in her descriptions of the pain and indignity her treatment involves

The novelist and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo is attracted by the freedom a New York job promises, but misses the young daughter she has left behind in London

Does knowledge of the wrongs committed by Caravaggio, Picasso, Roman Polanski and other ‘monsters’ condition our response to their art, wonders Claire Dederer

In his vast survey of felines wild and domestic, Jonathan Losos reveals, among much else, that a cat’s purr can convey hunger or panic as well as pleasure

Blending fact and fiction, France combines a tale of antics on a creative writing course with episodes from her family life

In a beautifully told novel, O’Callaghan focuses on the mysterious death of the footballer Matthias Sindelar in 1939 – possibly as a result of defying Hitler

Jonny Steinberg describes Nelson and Winnie’s doomed marriage, and how their posthumous reputations have undergone a startling reversal

In a second memoir, Motion focuses on how he became a poet, and his search for father figures, including W.H. Auden and Philip Larkin

Philip Hensher discusses how words relating to women’s ordinary experiences have been shrouded in euphemism over the centuries

What a whirlwind the world of the arts can be. Gabrielle Carey who changed forever the image of teenage girlish…

The most controversial aspect of Netflix’s new drama-documentary Queen Cleopatra – not least in Egypt – was the casting of…

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret is an adaptation of Judy Blume’s seminal young adult novel (1970) about an…

Normally, when you look at portraits you feel obliged to focus on the sitter. But quite often you’re thinking, ‘Ooh,…

In the rush to right the historical gender balance, galleries have been corralling neglected women artists into group exhibitions: the…

I was listening the other week to a solo album by an ageing rock guitarist, once terrifically famous. It was…

A new play, The Misandrist, looks at modern dating habits. Rachel is a smart, self-confident woman whose partner is a…

Lightning sometimes strikes twice. English Touring Opera hit topical gold last spring when, wholly by coincidence, they found themselves touring…

Adam Sweeting talks to the documentary-maker Nick Broomfield about the forgotten Rolling Stone

As the head of a dynasty which owes its wealth and influence to military aggression, white supremacy and colonial exploitation,…

Have you come across the word ‘transabled’? This is a new one on me, and I find it a frightening…

I am assured that this is not a legend. But a few years ago, an Irishman’s life was twice saved…

Our local Sainsbury’s, though admirable in every other way, has a slightly inflated estimate of the disabled population of Seven-oaks,…

I’m trying to organise an event in Westminster with the journalist Isabel Oakeshott and it’s proving a bit of a…

Usually in May I am still casting an enviously nostalgic eye backwards to Aintree and Cheltenham, reluctant yet to pack…

The lady standing on the doorstep did not need to tell me what she thought of my house, because the…