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The next logical target for the Australian right

How China played the weak West

She’s been leader for only six months, she’s disciplined and determined. And political knifings rarely end well

Built on farmers’ land

A few glitches but lots to be proud about

The White House goes to war with the BBC

The factions, the lobbyists and the renewables industry

The man who saved Australia

Time was, you didn’t look forward to going to the dentist. Even for routine stuff, your highest aspiration would be…

When Buckingham Palace announced that its errant prince, Andrew, would be known as boring old Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, some surprise…

German teachers are a privileged species. Most of us enjoy the status of a Beamter, a tenured civil servant. We…

Defeat, political implosion and civil war – those are the jeopardies that Volodymyr Zelensky faces as Ukraine heads into the…

Imagine dropping a pea-sized capsule through a spherical chamber and hitting it with a colossal bolt of laser energy as…

Those who, like myself, experienced life behind the Iron Curtain understand instinctively that centrally planned economies beholden to an ideology…

Denis Healey’s ‘caretaker Budget’ on 3 April 1979 is an odd focus for Labour nostalgia. It came a week after…

Like Adolf Hitler, I have been involved in a Channel 4 documentary about penises. I also share a love for…

On Monday night, former England manager Gareth Southgate joined MPs and philanthropists for an event in Westminster described as ‘the…

Mr Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old elected mayor of New York, who has described the police as ‘racist, anti-queer and a…

Cannabis smoke lingering along the sidewalks of Washington D.C. was the most palpable fruit of liberty since my last visit…

Home Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, proposed that refugees would only be granted a temporary right to stay and would…

Follow the Science. The Science is settled. Two phrases which invoke the power of open inquiry to close down open…

Condemned leaders Former Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina was sentenced to death for crimes against humanity, for using lethal force…

Cross channel Sir: As a supporter of the BBC, it pains me to say that Rod Liddle and Lara Brown…

How, I wonder, did a shortlist of candidates to succeed Sir Mark Tucker as chairman of HSBC come into the…

I should begin by making something clear. Splicing together two parts of a speech to give the impression they were…

It is always interesting to see who the American left claims are the leaders of the American right. There was…

Finding someone who ‘likes’ Sir Keir Starmer is a terribly enervating quest, and I have given up on it without…

Before the last election, Keir Starmer promised that his party’s relationship with the countryside would be ‘based on respect, on…

About seven years ago, I bought two pairs of pyjamas, one British, the other Chinese. At the time, they seemed…

Doing the rounds on social media is the most disturbing advert I’ve ever seen. And I’m telling you about it…

This is Greg Sheridan’s third volume of Christian apologetics. The first, Christians, was the case for Christian faith. The second,…

Aged 18, she wrote ‘Will You (Still) Love Me Tomorrow’ which reached No 1 in the US – and the hits kept coming

Crab with Calabrian chilli butter, pink-white marbled beetroot labne and carrot, orange and pomegranate salads are among the many good things on offer this year

An Italian former political adviser warns of the tech bros and autocrats upending the international order while our elected leaders appease and procrastinate

In Knausgaard’s latest psychological thriller, Kristian Hadeland, an arrogant Norwegian photography student, is implicated in a crime for which there will be harsh consequences

The pacing and tone are noirish in this metaphysical detective story, set in Trieste, about the space between writing and life

The pompous know-it-all despised by classical philosophers became a stock comic character of 16th-century theatre – and finally a bore to be pitied

In an enjoyable guide to wind-related topics, Simon Winchester reports that terrestrial wind speeds are mysteriously declining and we are now in the grip of ‘the Great Stilling’

What a cheering thing it is that David Szalay has won the Booker Prize for Flesh which is a masterpiece…

The Royal Ballet has scheduled what – on paper at least – looks like one of the most dismally dull…

The Hunger Games is based on a 2008 novel  about a despotic regime where brainwashed citizens are entertained with televised…

I know where I’m going. I’m on the sleeper train chugging out of Euston and heading to Fort William. A…

A male British rapper who is unafraid to show tenderness and vulnerability is not a particularly new phenomenon: Dave, Stormzy,…

Everyone loves a private view, and I am no exception. I don’t know how many hours I must have spent…

Stravinsky’s The Firebird begins in darkness, and it might be the softest, deepest darkness in all music. Basses and cellos…

Pluribus is another drama set in the dystopian future. But on this occasion the integrity of the entire human race…

The Thing With Feathers is an adaptation of Max Porter’s acclaimed novella about a widower who is left to raise…

The history of the male ballet dancer is a chequered one. In the early 19th century, he was the star…

The Victorian government’s ‘treaty’ with the one per cent of its citizens who purport to be Aboriginal is unjust and…

It is probably time to unpack the word ‘communism’. Zohran Mamdani has been elected Mayor of New York, and he…

People say that Carbone is Jay Gatsby’s restaurant – Gatsby being the metaphor for moneyed doomed youth – but it…

I first met Susanna in 1987 when Ed Victor, the late literary agent, invited both of us for lunch at…

For the past 30 years Robin Oakley has taken you through the front door of the horse-racing world and kept…

Apparently it’s easy to make money on YouTube by teaching a course in your specialism. Mine is having no friends.…

Sitting beneath the looming darkness of the unfinished ceiling of Westminster Cathedral, I found myself praying. I didn’t even know…

In my brief career as a parliamentarian I have developed a rule of thumb when it comes to evaluating legislation:…

Q. I live in a small house in Hampstead and have taken in a friend of a friend as a…

And so it begins, as Donald Trump likes to say, though not usually about cricket. He was offering his thoughts…