Yes to free speech, no to racism. It should be a pretty simple formula but, of course, the devil is…

Cheers all round for Andrew Bolt who extracted an apology, however grudging, from the ABC for broadcasting false and defamatory…

The next step has been taken in Victorian barristers’ consideration of changing their titles from the rather anodyne Senior Counsel…

I don’t normally put a great deal of thought into my tweets. Chatting idly on Twitter one night I had…

Trace the rot in the island state to Canberra’s interventionism in the early 1980s

I was on the edge of a rather hairy deadline when disaster struck. Tired of being cooped up in an…

Could my signed copy of a famous adventure comic book be worth a king’s ransom?

How does Australia benefit from foreign call centres using Australia as a source of income totalling billions?

Money isn't quite everything. But it's getting there

For all the anti-Russian rhetoric, we've been exposed as posturing, weak and divided

With Egypt closing the tunnels, its economy is in trouble

I used to think nothing would ever be more important. I was wrong

Why are customer satisfaction surveys always for the wrong thing?

Working-class people do grandparenting right. Middle-class ones, increasingly, don't

The confessions of a newspaper stock tipster

Share prices have had a long rise, yes – but not an exceptionally steep one

Technology investing has come a long way since the dotcom bust

These hand-printed patterns aren't just charming or even lovely – they're magical

Plus: How the press is staying free

Home In the Budget, George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, said that the economy was working but the job…

Plus: Working with Donald Whately, and why I love my drummer

Plus: The cheapest countries for childcare, and the state of Britain's squirrels

Classical education advice appears to accord with the evidence

That’s not entertainment Sir: How very disappointing — and quite shocking — to see The Spectator Australia (15 February) featuring…

Success for the Chancellor fuels the Tories' in-house conspiracy theorists

Plus: R.S. Surtees, and the first person to give Archduke Franz Ferdinand both barrels

I had good reasons for turning down BBC3's Free Speech. But now I really wish I hadn't

The convention to speak only good of the dead should not be applied to politicians

Must every series begin with the naked, lifeless body of a young woman?

The secrets of battling betting algorithms

Plus: Malaysia’s culture of secrecy, and Oxfam’s shifting mission

A review of Michael Scott’s Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World. It's a fascinating mystery, wrapped in an enigma, wrapped up in unfortunate academic jargon

A review of Chapman Pincher’s Dangerous to Know. At 100, the Daily Express's veteran spycatcher isn't giving up his obsessions – but he still got most of the big stories right

A review of Mary Kenny’s Something of Myself and Others. Life lived to the hilt

A review of Sarah Raven’s Vita Sackville-West’s Sissinghurst: The Creation of a Garden. Haven't we had enough cuttings from Vita Sackville-West by now?

A review of Henry Marsh’s Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery. Cutting people’s heads open, it turns out, really does your head in

junkie hard place
A review of Siri Hustvedt’s The Blazing World. This novel's artspeak may be a headache but the tenderness and generosity of the storytelling is unbeatable.

A review of John Carey’s The Unexpected Professor. This reader and reformer was the perfect don for his time – which, of course, meant hating dons

A review of Boyhood Island, by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett. Childhood mundanities are made universal in the Norwegian author’s account of his childhood

A review of James Hall’s The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History. This wonderful survey has brilliant timing – but not nearly enough illustrations

Every page of David Henry and Joe Henry’s biography Furious Cool carries something either appalling or amusing

Robert Gore-Langton talks to Julian Mitchell about the painful roots of his hit play

The world’s toughest violin competition is jam-packed with Asians – and this year,  not a single Brit

The British Museum's immaculately presented 'Germany Divided' shows the strength of its headline act. Plus two more German shows - Renaissance Impressions at the Royal Academy and Strange Beauty at the National Gallery

As a new Venetian exhibition shows, the Cubist was a pioneer in poster design and experimental film as well as a painter

Conductor and cast deliver near ideal performances but the staging needed more focus

The spectacle-oriented 70s dance company Pilobolus bring their mesmerising shadow play to London

Sharmila Chauhan's The Husbands is a great idea that should have been written by a chap. But seeing I'd Rather Goya Robbed Me of My Sleep Than Some Other Arsehole is an act of charity

A Long Way Down is so poorly written, so lacking in insight or sympathy, that you just want the characters to jump

CBBC’s new documentary gives the school the best PR it could ever wish for 

Plus: legendary interviewer Lynn Barber lets us in on her secrets

It must have seemed a great idea to take Jeremy Deller’s aggressive look at contemporary Britain to the William Morris gallery. But it doesn't fit there

A solo yachtsman from a family of heroes

An afternoon with my brother and his dogs

I bet she isn't alone

What really happens on foxhunts nowadays is a mystery, but it must be pretty exciting to command such enthusiasm

The stories that kept the crowd entranced

A number of young Israelis are taking the International bridge world by storm. All in their twenties, their achievements so…

The Oxford v. Cambridge Varsity Match held at the Royal Automobile Club two weeks ago ended in a draw. This…

Black to play. This position is from Miles-Hodgson, Zaragoza 1993. Black has a powerful build-up on the kingside. How did…

In Competition 2839 you were invited to submit a poem about the darker side of spring. There were references in…

This puzzle marks the 40 of a 33 29. 16A, 24 and 1D (four words) are three of his works.…

The three theme words are CHAMBERS (12A, 16A, 40A), OXFORD (colleges) (24A, 4D, 8D), and (works by Wilkie) COLLINS (9D,…

Now that Hacked Off has this lot, who could oppose it?

Stuart Lancaster is proving to be an impressive leader. But are his replacements good enough?

Plus: A definitive ruling on phone etiquette

I have been inside his gazebo, and I know

Mobile-less with the mystery of the mandorla