Four decades after the battle for the Franklin Dam, a contest between nature and industry is underway in the high…

One of the many issues that people have difficulty understanding about the Aboriginal Voice is whether it will lead to…

Temperatures have been rising and falling for the last 600 million years

Only using ‘creative’ statistics

Labor’s disinformation bill is deeply dangerous

The myth of social licence

A journalist records Covidian Australia's pandemic over-reach

The country’s economic splutter will be noticed around the world

Australian institutions are so hostile to freedom that telling the truth is an act of resistance

Wind turbines are trashing unique old growth forests

Labor’s misinformation bill is what you’d expect Beijing to ram through in Hong Kong

The backlash against Ulez is only the beginning

Will we even notice if AI replaces screenwriters?

Where did it all go wrong for Ron?

The Ashes has become too much for some cricket fans

The government’s floundering over China is a gift to Labour

Many of my friends, stranded by the Hollywood writers’ and actors’ strikes, have temporarily given up their film projects and…

What Britain can learn from Romania

P-p-pick up a pebble. Feel its weight in your palm. Roll it over under your thumb. Any good? Not sure?…

When Nigel Farage said Coutts had closed his bank account and claimed political victimisation, many thought he was making it…

Home Ben Wallace said he would cease to be the Defence Secretary at the next cabinet reshuffle and would not…

When someone asks ‘How are you?’ you have to assume your interlocutor is only being polite. Anyone who returns a…

Swing when you’re winning What are the biggest UK by-election swings? — The 1983 Bermondsey by-election saw a 11,756 Labour…

The ancients were as fascinated by rumour as, to judge by recent events in Russia and the BBC, we are.…

Joe Shmoe Sir: Your piece ‘Not so special’ (Leading article, 8 July) was right. Joe Biden doesn’t like us and…

Rishi Sunak goes into the summer holidays in the same position he began the year: 20 points behind in the…

Jane Portal, as she was when she worked for Winston Churchill, died last week, aged 93. Lady Williams of Elvel,…

As I write this, the director-general of the BBC is being quizzed on the corporation’s future by people who were…

My favourite Martin Amis novel was his 1991 book Time’s Arrow. It is a pyrotechnically brilliant work in which all…

The first LNER train I booked on Sunday from Durham to London was cancelled due to ‘action short of a…

‘Always be cheerful’ – a motto to which I’ll return in the final item – speaks to my natural demeanour.…

A successful joke relies on rhythm, tempo, cadence, pause – so why does David Stubbs find comedy and music so antithetical, wonders Joel Morris

Despite the seediness and threat of violence, Littlehampton was a place of neighbourly camaraderie, fondly evoked in Sally Bayley’s latest memoir

Shoji Morimoto offers himself to strangers in Tokyo to queue on their behalf, make a fuss of their dogs or simply provide a human presence

A world of private fetishes, obsessions, childhood memories and literary passions is dazzlingly revealed in 13 short stories

Abandoned in infancy, Alex Wheatle grew up in children’s homes, but found salvation in roots reggae – and, eventually, his father in Jamaica

Simpson writes from personal experience in this moving story of three children’s commitment to their mentally ill mother

A tabloid journalist desperate for a scoop pursues a young Irish mother whose daughter is rumoured to have killed a child. But is there any truth in the story?

In the absence of their own written records, they have been ‘invented’ and misrepresented in Europe ever since their arrival in the Middle Ages, says Klaus-Michael Bogdal

Like many women in mid-life, Marina Benjamin found herself caring for the very young and the elderly – leading her to ‘a radical feminist turn’

History is always relevant, says Adrian Goldsworthy – and Rome’s long war with Parthia-Persia, ending in deadlock, should make Putin wary

When a Sri Lankan medical student finds her brothers joining the Tamil Tigers, she is caught in a tangle of commitments to family, friends, homeland and vocation

Despite #MeToo and the new resistance to male bullying, the dance world is still ferocious and unforgiving, writes Rupert Christiansen

Bands that have hung around, or gone away and come back again, occupy an increasingly sizeable percentage of pop’s bandwidth.…

It is the stuff of nightmares, or a queasily dystopian film plot. A woman is undergoing a surgical procedure in…

If you don’t subscribe to every last detail of the LGBTQ+ agenda, then basically you are a Nazi. This was…

In the 1990s, the BBC had a popular flat-share comedy, Men Behaving Badly, about a pair of giggling bachelors who…

There were times during last Friday’s First Night of the Proms when it felt as if we’d been transported back…

‘Photography has arrived at a point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and…

Finally, the Barbie film is here, for which we must be thankful, as the tsunami of pre-publicity meant you probably…

So now Milan Kundera is gone at the age of 94. It’s easy to forget the tremendous weight, the sheer…

Now that Wimbledon is over, a few thoughts about youthful brains showing traces of horse tranquillisers, angel dust and cannabis,…

As I sat down to dinner in a lovely old country pub my reservation was cancelled by my iPhone, which…

Standing on the banks of the Swan River the skyline tells you how Perth retains observable links with its regional…

Some trendy new expressions will probably have the lifespan of a fruit fly (for the scientifically minded, that’s between 30…

Last year, we grew tomatoes for the first time. And we did so with our characteristic enthusiasm, lack of knowledge…

Reading about all the travel chaos, I began to regret my summer holiday plans. Wouldn’t it have been more sensible…

Great sport needs great rivalries, and that is why anyone with a pulse must celebrate being in the throes of…

Q. I have got myself in a pickle. My boss was given a bottle of Louis Roederer Cristal by a…

I am not sure the vast Bierschenke bierkeller in Covent Garden is successful, even if it is skilful: I worry…

Last year, Oxford Languages’ word of the year was goblin mode. Apparently 300,000 voters decided upon it, but I haven’t…

Bridge isn’t a game you can master quickly. Quite the opposite: with every new level you reach, another looms above…

Nine wins in a row. What are the chances? That’s how Magnus Carlsen began on the first day of blitz…

White to play. Rapport-Caruana, Grand Chess Tour Rapid, Zagreb 2023. Caruana’s last move, 61…Bd6-e7, was a decisive mistake. Which move…

In Competition No. 3208 you were invited to submit a short story whose first or last line is: ‘“Is there…

Unclued lights (one of three words and one of two words, singly or paired) form three groups. Group 1 is three…

Unclued lights were world CHESS champions. Current champion DING was to be highlighted. First prize Gail Petrie, Brean, Somerset Runners-up…