As Australia Day comes around, battle lines are again being drawn by self-described ‘progressives’ who refuse to see anything to…

You may not have realised it, but Australia is now in the grip of a new and deadly virus. It…

Injured people mean big business for Big Pharma

Labor plays the Nazi card

Reparations under the threat of ‘cancellation’ sound like extortion

Fear climate policies

It is not clear who will prevail in the Russia-NATO conflict

Jim Molan’s greatest act of service was his last

Our greatest churchman laid to rest

Cutting emissions can’t get us to net zero

When Rishi Sunak had dinner with Nicola Sturgeon last week, the idea was to show he was interested in a…

Why are our prisons still in lockdown?

The dumbing-down of BBC Radio 3

Russian diplomat Boris Bondarev on his decision to defect

How strikes lost their bite

My father Paul Johnson

Loyalty, it used to be said, was the secret weapon of the Conservative party. That hasn’t been true for some…

Duke out Will the Duke and Duchess of Sussex be invited to Charles III’s coronation? The royal family faced a…

What self-respecting political leader would be seen in Davos? The World Economic Forum has become synonymous with sybaritic technocracy –…

When the mist lifts and we can see clearly the carnage caused by the trans madness, and we blink and…

Monday was Martin Luther King Jr Day in the United States. And this year it was most memorable for two…

If you were rich, foreign and globally mobile, would you choose to move to the UK? The trend, it turns…

Peter Hitchens is in no doubt that it was. But a dominant, self-perpetuating meritocratic elite, all head and no heart, might also have presented problems

Iwan Rhys Morus describes how novelists’ futuristic visions began to be realised by engineers – though the course of invention is more random than he imagines

There has never been a golden age or even a very stable one, says Diane Purkiss, in a serious consideration of how English food has changed over time

From their brothels in lawless 1850s Monterrey, Eliza and Jean set out discover why their fellow workers are going missing

Jonathan Healey describes how Diggers, Levellers and other revolutionary sects started proposing universal male suffrage, legal aid and even a national health service

Suave, savage and irresistible to women, the Bond-like character takes many secrets with him to his – unknown – grave

When Edi is moved to palliative care, her best friend Ash keeps vigil at her bedside, recalling their lifetime of shared jokes and experiences

In an extraordinary daily record of life’s minutiae, Toby Litt oscillates between the trivial and the transcendent, often on the same page

Many aspects of western civilisation that appealed to Amerindians – the arts, philosophy, technology and the reach of commerce – are overlooked by Caroline Dodds Pennock

George Pell is dead. Although he was 81, no one would have predicted it. The Cardinal who had had to…

Watch on the Rhine is the curiously misleading title chosen by Lillian Hellman for a wartime family drama that became…

There’s a case to be made for John Cale being the most daring ex-member of the Velvet Underground. Lou Reed…

Whenever I listen to Great Lives on Radio 4, which is often, I am reminded of the gulf between fame…

Kaleidoscope is a fairly routine eight-part heist drama with a supposed novelty spin: apart from the beginning and the end,…

Bank of Dave is the ‘true(ish)’ story, as this puts it, of Dave Fishwick, the Burnley businessman who wanted to…

‘Graphic’ scenes of violence are now associated with film, but the word betrays an older ancestry. The first mass media…

Norman Lebrecht on his hatred of Beethoven’s Pastoral

If the Albanese regime is handing out ‘voices’ this year, it might start by giving one to the silent majority…

When we speak English is it fair to say that some accents are better (or better in certain contexts) than…

All the unclued lights can be followed by the same word. Elsewhere, ignore three accents. Across 12    Positive Belgian forward…

I always feel pulled toward citrus at the start of the year. Initially it was subconscious: I’d just find myself…

Scott’s, Richmond, is a fish, champagne and oyster bar, and a new branch of Scott’s, Mayfair. The original Scott’s was…

Something is happening here, and you do know what it is, don’t you Mr Jones? Stargazers – and even some…

About ten years ago I thought seriously about becoming a Conservative MP. I jumped through a series of hoops and…

The nurse fixed me with a disapproving stare: ‘Why is there such a gap between these prescriptions?’ I had gone…

Standing at the door was a hospital porter. He was resting an elbow on the back of a heavily padded…