Increasingly, and not surprisingly, political pundits across the mainstream media are beginning to say what this magazine has been saying…

Libs must fight now for free speech. Or lose the election.

Mining industry rediscovers its backbone

Nah, government knows best

Critical race theory is racist and deliberately foments division

Look at what happened 30 years ago

Making censorship respectable again

The debate was riddled with missed opportunities

Progressive campaign to destroy free speech

DiCaprio sells us his environmental cartoon, but is anybody buying it?

Fall of France recalled

There is always much to look forward to on a holiday with friends in France (the day one supermarket sweep,…

For the first 50 years of the corked bottle, there was no easy way to get into it. The combination…

At this weekend’s Reform conference in Birmingham, the opening speech will be given by a man who wasn’t even a…

First, the good news. The Irish government is about to receive a €13 billion windfall in the form of back…

Israel’s security cabinet met in a bunker in the ministry of defence in Tel Aviv on Monday night. The main…

It would be tough for any country to lose 7-0 in a World Cup qualifier, but when the losing team…

A few weeks ago, I was present when my aunt, a Canadian citizen born in the UK, chose to die…

Kyiv The young amputee had a question. We were sitting once again in the rehab centre in Kyiv, and I…

The first nimby Who coined the term ‘nimby’? — The expression, from ‘Not In My Backyard’, entered the political sphere…

Growth, growth, growth: that was what Keir Starmer told us would be his government’s priority in his first press conference…

The welfare state was designed to serve everyone’s needs. But those needs were defined by the state. So schools teach…

Home Sir Keir Starmer met Giorgia Meloni, the Prime Minister of Italy, in Rome and said that sending funds to…

I slept only between the hours of 5 and 6 a.m, thanks to self-induced terror tactics. My son Adam stayed…

Mass appeal Sir: The upcoming ‘rave’ at Peterborough Cathedral follows the trajectory of using this sacred space as a mere…

The Conservative party is out of power – and that’s not easy if you’ve been in power for more than…

I was on the bus recently and bored when I decided not to ignore but to answer one of those…

The burden of higher taxation must fall on those with ‘the broadest shoulders’, says the Prime Minister, and City folks…

I have spent most of the morning trying to convince people online that Huw Edwards’s conviction does not mean that…

Ed Davey owes much of his election success to Boris Johnson – and in more ways than one. The slide-loving,…

As someone who worked full time in the office for 24 years and has now worked full time from home…

First published in 1952, the satirical magazine helped free the American youth of Vietnam War era of some of the stupidest beliefs they were supposed to hold about their country

The influential 1960s rock band should have enjoyed the longevity of the Rolling Stones. But disputes with managers over low record royalties led to frustration, tension and disillusionment

Tokarczuk revisits Thomas Mann’s masterpiece The Magic Mountain in this ‘health resort horror story’ set in a Silesian guesthouse on the eve of the first world war

Hailed as ‘an uncompromising witness to the modern travails of the spirit’ , Weil also exasperated those closest to her with her ambitions for heroic self-denial

The billionaires currently driving technology and the global economy are willing to take bets on very long odds, and treat everything as a market to be played

The pandemic’s aftershocks are still felt in Crosby, as Strout’s best-loved characters, Olive, Lucy, Jim and Bob, reminisce about people they have known, imbuing their lives with meaning

Set in 2027, with France in a state of economic and moral decay, Houellebecq’s deeply affecting novel is really a meditation on love and death and the way we treat the dying

Ancient equine remains provide fascinating clues to migration and warfare – but the animals themselves seem largely absent in William T. Taylor’s history of the horse

The siege of the Iranian embassy in London in the spring of 1980 achieved nothing for the terrorists. But the previously reclusive elite army unit soon became the stuff of legend

It was at Cape Liptrap that the call came through. The setting was almost absurdly beautiful, the sea one way…

At a Hollywood party in the 1940s, the garrulous socialite Elsa Maxwell spotted Arnold Schoenberg, then teaching music at UCLA,…

Earlier this year, ITV brought us Red Eye, a six-part drama set mainly on an overnight plane from London to…

Why Am I So Single? opens with two actors on stage impersonating the play’s writers Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss.…

Grade: B+ Almost all modern popular music is afflicted by a desperate yearning for importance, and thus – as it…

Van Gogh only got one major review in his career, and he was mystified by it. When the critic Albert…

Both horribly familiar and wonderfully shocking, this body-horror film written and directed by Coralie Fargeat does a very traditional thing…

The Stirling Prize is the Baftas for architects, a moment for auto-erotic self-congratulation. Awarded by the Royal Institute of British…

American Football are a band whose legend was formed by the internet: some Illinois college kids who made an album…

Recently the ABC online, and the Weekend Australian, both published detailed articles about problems within the Northern Territory Aboriginal communities.…

Can ‘difficult’ be used as a verb? Surely not, I hear you mutter. But on the web I encountered the…

In Florence there was a stone on which Dante sat in the evenings, pondering and talking to acquaintances. One asked…

The latest issue of Scientific American, a popular science monthly published by Springer Nature, contains an editorial endorsing Kamala Harris.…

In the exhilarating event of Somerset managing to sneak past Surrey and being on their way to claim their first…

Q. We live in an area with no mobile reception and trying to get hold of taxis for guests leaving…

Cloth is opposite St Bartholomew the Great on Cloth Fair. People call this place Farringdon, but it isn’t really: it…

Recently I lost my mother, my job and nearly my wife in quick succession (she was diagnosed with breast cancer).…

Billy Connolly once declared that Scotland had only two seasons: June and winter. Perversely, though, just as the northern swallows…

The sound of the little cart on the lane came first and then the sight of the pony clip-clopping towards…

I am sure there are beloved British dishes that inspire horror in those from different cultures, that are truly unappealing…