What delicious timing. In the same news cycle that Peter Dutton announces the re-launch of the Coalition and his determination…

But I shall

The triumph of modern irrationalism

Saying Yes doesn’t make you one of the good guys

On the myths of childcare

US Court battles are going to get fiercer

Macron makes a fool of himself over Taiwan

Is the Chinese Communist Party already calling the shots in Labor states?

Will your credibility be restored or slide further?

No wonder we hoped we’d die before we got old

There are clear similarities with the 1999 referendum

I’ll be forever grateful to my son’s surrogate

The moral dangers of surrogacy

The stupidity of ‘smart’ parking apps

The continuing appeal of the Holy Grail

How I found friendship through online Scrabble

The aristocrat trying to bring down Macron

The idea that Donald Trump was denied victory in the 2020 presidential election by conspirators determined to fiddle with the…

Putting out fires The Brecon Beacons National Park Authority said it was renaming the park because the word ‘beacon’ implies…

A seized luxury campervan, a raid on a politician’s home and two arrests. The latest twists in Police Scotland’s investigation…

It was from the Northern Ireland conflict that I first learned how language – like everything else – can be…

For people who take politics seriously and very earnestly, such as myself, the present debacle within the Scottish National party…

In some quarters, American enterprise is alive and well. Established in 1929 to promote consumer protection, the conservative non-profit Consumers’…

On Easter Saturday, I wrote for the Times about the victimhood of Christ, describing this as a regrettable foundation for…

The horologist Rebecca Struthers takes us on a journey through time-measurement, from a 44,000-year-old bone carving to the modern Rolex

Inherited knowledge saved the indigenous Andaman islanders from the 2004 tsunami. But how will fast-changing data affect our judgment?

Jeremy Dauber highlights the tension within Brooks of warring Jewish archetypes, personified by Max and Leo in the masterpiece The Producers

A novel full of surprises weaves together stories of disparate characters – all mysteriously connected to the elderly novelist Dora Frenhofer

On the anniversary of Hendrix’s death, ageing hippies gather in Lviv to perform a bizarre ritual by a grave marked with his name

Aided by documents in the National Archives, Crispin Black challenges the view that the Welsh Guards were to blame for the Bluff Cove disaster

When Michael Laudor’s schizophrenia spiralled out of control in 1998, it made headline news in America. Jonathan Rosen remembers earlier, happier days with his friend

Heydrich had microphones installed throughout Madam Kitty’s salon in the hope of obtaining ‘useful’ information from visiting diplomats and political rivals

It’s not only junk food we should be wary of, says Olivia Potts. Pretty well everything contains additives – and our five-a-day mantra is costing the Earth

What a world of paradox painting confronts us with. The death of John Olsen is a reminder of his stature…

If you live in London, you may well have spotted Shen Yun’s enormous candy-coloured posters on the Underground, endorsed by…

Lloyd Evans bemoans theatre’s new hostility towards paying punters

It is, of course, traditional for film and TV reviewers to demonstrate their steely high-mindedness by claiming that anything describing…

‘A queer fellow’ is how John Everett Millais described Dante Gabriel Rossetti after his death, ‘so dogmatic and so irritable…

The Secret Life of Bees is a fairy-tale set in the Deep South in 1964. Lily, a bullied white girl,…

Haydn’s The Creation is Paradise Lost without the Lost. True, the words aren’t exactly up there: translated into German by…

Elton John has now been retiring for nearly five years. The Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour began in Allentown, Pennsylvania,…

Sick of Myself is a satire from Norway that skewers the ‘look at me, look at me’ generation addicted to…

Angus Colwell is not convinced that the V&A Dundee’s exhibition Tartan is what the city needs

‘Where did all the poof readers go?’ is not a question which would make it into many Australian publications. I…

‘White guilt’ is one of the concepts lying behind the proposed Indigenous Voice. When Prime Minister Albanese announced he had…

It was a perfect setting for a spring day, next to a 15th-century barn. Other walls and buildings had clearly…

Last month in a Swiss hotel, I came across an idea so beautifully simple that I felt it would be…

As another summer approaches, I’ve embarked on yet another attempt to lose weight. You’d have thought I’d have learnt my…

The unclued lights are the former and current names of various products: 2/8A, 12/36, 16/32, 17/34, 13/22. First prize David…

The unclued lights are of a kind. Two solutions are initials. Across 1    Officers’ training school – place to write…

As I write, six of 14 games of the world championship match between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren have been…

When jockey Derek Fox came over from Ireland to join the Scottish stable run by Lucinda Russell and her partner,…

It took five firemen or pompiers to lift me out of bed, carry me down three narrow flights of stairs…

New York The fact that a sailor on leave cannot whistle at a pretty girl’s legs is scientific proof that…