As Scott Morrison sets up the idea of ‘who do you trust?’ as his 2022 election theme, and in doing…

They’ve never been worse

When it comes to Covid, the numbers never seem to add up

They’re coming for you

... and Paul Keating’s bizarre comments

On the threats to Taiwan and the Ukraine

Lies, false claims, fraud and cooked data

Terror vaccinalis strikes our shores

We have been betrayed

Can British cartoonists ever break America?

Europe faces a new form of warfare

The mullet is back in fashion, which is proof that true evil never dies. What’s more, the trend is being…

The Fab Four at war

It’s easy to blame Putin for everything

How Gen Z can buffer themselves against inflation

The lab leak theory just got even stronger

Andrew Bailey looks increasingly beleaguered

On a long-ago Remembrance Sunday, it fell to me, as a new service equerry, to present the Prince of Wales…

Emad Al Swealmeen, who blew himself up in a taxi outside the Liverpool Women’s Hospital, is not believed to have…

Greta Thunberg and her supporters were loud in protest at COP26, but one wonders to what end. They demanded deeds,…

Shell out Royal Dutch Shell announced that it is to move its HQ to London and become a fully British…

Balance of power Sir: Ross Clark sums up the problem with wind power (‘Storing up trouble’, 13 November). It is…

Home The UK terror threat level was raised to severe after a taxi exploded and burst into flames just before…

This week, I’m having puppies! First litter! The Johnsons were not doggy as we always moved around too much (my…

Exciting news from Durham University, which is helping its students to become ‘sex workers’. This noble institution is offering two…

The scrapping of most of the eastern leg of HS2, originally planned from Birmingham to Leeds, is a news item…

I begin this column on a train from Paris to London. Opposite me are a mother and baby. I don’t…

Almost no MP has emerged with dignity from the sleaze debacle of the past three weeks. Boris Johnson’s botched attempt…

When a column highlighting under-appreciated breaking news has had absolutely no impact on the course of events (per usual), the…

I once stood on a Dublin street with Shane MacGowan and watched little old ladies who can’t ever have been…

Stuart England did not do its anti-Catholicism by halves. In the late 1670s and early 1680s, a popular feature of…

This is the best of times to be writing history, since so much of what has been taken for granted,…

Rose Tremain’s 15th novel begins with a favoured schmaltzy image of high Victoriana: it is a night (if not dark…

A further selection of the books enjoyed by some of our regular reviewers in 2021

In March 1963, the Fantastic Four had a fractious encounter with Spider-Man and a dust-up with the Hulk — a…

It’s almost a shock to admit it, but this year’s gift books aren’t bad at all. It’s even possible that,…

One of Adrian Tinniswood’s recent books, The Long Weekend, is a portrait of country house life in the interwar years.…

It is, as you’ve possibly noticed, a tricky time for old-school American liberals, now caught between increasingly extreme versions of…

No Sudden Move, Directed by Steven Soderbergh, Streaming on Amazon Prime

Anyone who cares about the theatre should rush to see Kendall Feaver’s Wherever She Wanders which Griffin Theatre Company is…

From quartz to quince: Daisy Dunn on the art and science of Fabergé

Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog could also be called The Power of Benedict Cumberbatch, as he’s so spectacular.…

No musician ever went bust overestimating the public desire to hear classic soul. Slapping on a Motown backbeat has revived…

Thanks to Covid, the days are gone — or at least suspended — when a TV travel programme meant a…

Mike Leigh’s classic, Abigail’s Party, has been revived under the direction of Vivienne Garnett. The script is a guilty secret…

Grade: B+ Everything these days devolves to prog — and not always very good prog. Where once synths were vastly…

When the Courtauld Gallery’s impressionist pictures were shown at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris in 2019, the Parisian public…

Martin McNamara, the writer of Mosley Must Fall, a play on Radio 4 this week, must have had a jolt…

With Glyndebourne’s The Rake’s Progress, the show starts with David Hockney’s front cloth. The colour, the ingenuity, the visual bravura:…

You know the royals are in trouble when a prominent member of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy writes an article suggesting…

It’s that time of the year again—when dictionaries around the world start announcing their chosen ‘Word of the Year’. First…

A nine-word phrase (in five unclued lights, two used twice) opens a work for 1A (three words) by 8 (two…

I had thought there were two pronunciations of Uranus. My husband, still capable of distinguishing the anatomical from the planetary,…

A friend of mine recently visited a company in Europe which plans to manufacture human-carrying, pilotless drones. These would be…

Foolishly I chose new specs in the village optician’s after a long lunch: a rather outré design that I might…

New York I’ve never met anyone called Othello, certainly not in Venice nor in Cyprus, but perhaps there are men…

The street lamp as bright as the Dog Star is back to its full glare outside my house. I won…

‘Where is this from?’ my friend asked, handing me a wine glass. It was a Cabernet Sauvignon, high in alcohol,…

Q. We have recently installed security cameras in our remote holiday house in the south of France and I was…

Something rather unusual happened to me a few weeks ago: I was shortlisted for a prize. Not the GQ Men…

The Champion’s Cup is an annual competition for the national champions from 12 European countries. As my team won the…

White to play and win. The conclusion of an endgame study by Henri Rinck. The imminent promotion of the g-pawn…

Nine months ago, after a decade spent in London, I moved to Lancashire. Although I’m a northerner born and bred,…

Kenya Each time I sit in St Bride’s on Fleet Street during the memorial of another friend, I look around…

The quotation is ‘LAUGH, AND THE WORLD LAUGHS WITH YOU; WEEP, AND YOU WEEP ALONE’ from Solitude by Ella Wheeler…

In Competition No. 3225, you were invited to provide a version of the Lord Chancellor’s ‘Nightmare Song’ from Iolanthe for…

One of the most eye-catching games from the recently concluded Fide Grand Swiss in Riga saw an early sacrifice of…