The Prime Minister now hangs around the neck of the Labor party and leftist politics in general like Samuel Taylor…

Did you know that the Australian government in bygone days issued licences to citizens to hunt Aboriginals? No, I didn’t…

Notes from the morning after

People want politicians to defend their values

Questioning multiculturalism

Albo tops the charts

A double victory for conservatism down under

This magazine alone said No to the Voice from the very start

The PM looks for a ‘new path’

Welcomes, acknowledgments and flags need to be curtailed

Albanese squanders more than just our money

No sane American president takes office hoping for war. Woodrow Wilson, a 56-year-old Princeton academic, said it would be ‘the…

  Jerusalem   Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza is rapidly evolving into a war with all of Iran’s proxies…

Vasyl, a burly, tattooed infantry commander who lost a leg to a Russian mine on the eastern front, sits swinging…

The first indication that this was a literary festival like no other came with the request to provide ‘proof of…

No nation in history is known to have emerged from the grip of long-term low birth rates. This sobering reality…

To present a TV history documentary these days, one must first have access to the full Angels and Bermans dressing-up…

‘Hi Jacques,’ I say as the publisher of Fitzcarraldo Editions appears on my Zoom screen with his Franz Hals facial…

The last message that Shaked Haran saw from her father was just after 7.30 a.m. on the Saturday of the…

The recent election in Poland has been presented by some as a triumph of liberalism over the dark forces of…

I was greatly tempted by Sam Leith’s suggestion in a column on The Spectator’s website this week that we should…

The SNP party conference in Aberdeen this week wasn’t the nationalist jamboree activists had hoped for. Even though it was…

It’s a truism that the Anglosphere has developed a ‘tribalism’ that rivals the divisions between the Kikuyu and Luhya in…

Anyone would think (anyone, that is, who has followed our three main annual party conferences this autumn) that Britain’s principal…

There are times when you wonder how history happened. And other times when you realise how it did. The past…

Teenage Annis and her enslaved mother endure beatings and rape as they are marched in chains to New Orleans to be sold to the latest brutal plantation owner

Reminiscing about his many friends and colleagues in the 1970s, Moore even finds good things to say about the Dead Boys and Sid Vicious

The 1939 Gothic pastiche which the author was at pains to distance himself from is now considered a delightfully devious work of Polish modernism

A man returns to his remote rural home after an absence – to be greeted not by his family but a sinister stranger on the telephone

Benjamin Moser reminds us of how freely painters borrowed each other’s subjects – and of how many of the greatest, including Rembrandt, died in poverty

The radical Rudi Dutschke in 1960s Berlin and the angry Johnny Rotten in 1970s London are just two of the charismatic figures in this history of youth activism

The Burton-Taylor relationship was either one of the greatest love stories of all time or a suicide pact carried out in relentless slow motion

Rich, pretty Kitty has been admired since childhood – but will the Park Avenue princess spend her entire life as a collectable object for connoisseurs?

An introspective art lecturer immerses himself in the history of slavery – and fears he has grown addicted to screen depictions of extreme brutality

Thanks to Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum, English Test cricket has been revolutionised – at the expense of the gentle, contemplative game

The film director treats us to a dervish dance of anecdotes but still keeps his real life secret, says Peter Bradshaw

The Newsreader has already caught a lot of attention for the way in which it weaves together a strong sense…

Not being an aficionado of the heavy-metal genre, I snootily suspected that I would rather be standing in the rain…

This month marks the 100th anniversary of Walt Disney’s company. The first cartoons it was founded to produce – the…

When I was a kid listening obsessively to AC/DC and Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath, I despaired of music writers.…

Why do painters represent things? There was a time when the answers seemed obvious. Art glorified power, earthly and divine,…

Remember the groans of dismay, possibly including your own, which greeted John Cleese’s announcement in February that he was reviving…

Another week, another attempt to solve the Purcell problem. There’s a problem? Well, yes, if you consider that a composer…

Sunset Boulevard is a re-telling of the Oedipus story set in the cut-throat world of Hollywood. Pick a side in…

Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon is a Western crime drama that runs to three-and-a-half hours. (Sit on that,…

Dan Hitchens on the Georgian obsession with lavish light shows and nocturnal adventures

Timing matters just as much in tragedy as it does in comedy. And it is important to remember that the…

The word ‘special’ means: ‘Exceptional in quality or degree; unusual; out of the ordinary; excelling in some way’ (Oxford English…

My guts went on strike last July. I was staying in a hotel and I spent several days sprawled on…

Tuscany: earth has not anything to show more fair. The landscape is charming. The gentle hills seem to smile down…

I am not sure there was much else Rishi could have done to salvage HS2. But I come bearing good…

By the time you read this I’ll be 60, having passed that milestone on Tuesday. My older friends tell me…