Here’s what should happen. The Coalition, led by Malcolm Turnbull, should win the forthcoming July 2 election with a slightly…

Given the popularity of Channel 10’s I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here it’s hardly surprising that other networks…

Same sex marriage? just give me Democracy There are few conceivable contexts whereby one could say ‘I believe in democracy’…

I have always firmly believed that the role of a university is to foster scholarly pursuits. To those who have…

Dad and the Burma Railway

Germaine Greer falls foul of the speech-policing tranny state

It’s a common enough accusation - but what does it actually mean?

We should care about who is the next Secretary-General - and it shouldn’t be Kevin Rudd

Now the Left are turning on a feminist icon

The British politicians counting on his endorsement don’t understand the resentment he can cause

Disagree with him if you like. But don’t underestimate his support — or the strength of his case

The former Work and Pensions Secretary on the fallout from his shock resignation

There is a prize of £1,000 – so start composing your foul verses

Rags to Riches, and other archetypal plots coming soon to a stadium near you

The wildlife is thriving around my little tin house. I’m less sure about the people

More girls are now being named Luna or Skylar than Mary. What’s up?

All I need is a clear job description, mastery of my space, and the absence of a ‘team’ that is ‘on my side’

It’s best if they’re not prone to nightmares, obviously

Is it too late to hope that both sides might start treating voters as adults?

Home George Osborne, the Chancellor, said that if Britain left the European Union, households would be on average £4,300 a…

Also in Robert Hardman’s diary: the future of royal walkabouts, and the return of the airship

Also in our Barometer column: Treasury forecasts, the Queen and life expectancy, and pay at the top

Roman auspices were probably more reliable than Treasury forecasts

He will otherwise become ‘a proper object of public censure and contempt’

Navy sunk Sir: As a proud ex-Wren during World War ll, I heartily endorse your editorial on the Royal Australian…

In winning the vote, he could well lose his party

And: Simon Danczuk’s ‘dark place’; public appointments; Matt Ridley; David Pryce-Jones; university standards

There is an ocean between what British Muslims believe and what the rest of us believe

We were never being boring – but we knew how to be self-disciplined and rigorous

Also in Any Other Business: Brexit forecasts, renationalising steel, the future of hotels and Standard Chartered

The latest crop of anniversary books shows just what an astonishing mirror to changing culture his work can be

John Kerrigan’s examination of the many vows, oaths, promises, pledges and profanities contained in Shakespeare’s plays provides further rewarding reading

Roberto Bolaño’s ‘novelita’ of orphaned siblings and mute lookalikes planning a crime spree in Rome ends in a strange red glow of ambiguity

When a cold case of child-murder is reopened, the investigator’s own daughter goes missing in Hideo Yokoyama’s spellbinding thriller, Six Four

One’s a perfect genius and the other’s a perfect mystery, say Jennifer Ackerman and Tim Birkhead, in two enthralling new books on bird behaviour

After a spell of clean living in Santa Barbara, Renton’s frenemy returns to Edinburgh, and more carnage, in Irvine Welsh’s The Blade Artist

Lawrence Wright’s astonishing exposé of Scientology, which appeared in the States in 2013, has finally found a brave British publisher

Bob Brier reveals how most of these great symbols of eternity, now lost to Egypt, have ended up in the Eternal City

Kings of War is the brainchild of Belgian director Ivo van Hove, who explains why Shakespeare is often much more dramatic when not done in English

The cause of the Bard’s demise has always been pretty shadowy. Some say he died of fever, others syphilis. Lloyd Evans examines the evidence

Shakespeare400 has made the playwright into a brand, an icon to be name-checked but rarely grappled with

Obscurity is the order of the week: London Handel Festival offer up Handel's pasticcio Elpidia and oratorio Alexander Balus, while London Mozart Players reconstruct Mozart's Goose of Cairo

On its 10th anniversary, the Cartoon Museum celebrates an underrated art form in which the British excel, as demonstrated by the works of Posy Simmonds and Bryan Talbot

In the battle between men and women choreographers, the Mariinsky’s all-male line-up at the Millennium Centre won out over Rojo’s She Said triple at ENB

The difference is at least Daphne doesn't expect me to sit and watch her for 98 minutes

This improbable scenario is the only weak link in Corbyn the Musical at Waterloo East. Plus: Boy at the Almeida is the finest homily on alienation I've ever witnessed

Plus: the World Service's interview series Where Are You Going? is a simple format that stumbles upon powerful stories

Plus: how was it that BBC2's The People v OJ Simpson continued to grip despite us knowing the outcome of the story?

True crime is the genre of literature based on actual crimes and the real life perpetrators. Initially popularised in the…

Legality being my middle name, I followed advice to steer well clear of the likes of Mossack Fonseca

My future prosperity depended on us beating Manchester United in the cup quarter final— but then we lost

The estate agent selling it seemed reluctant to do so

A recent referendum there shows how, if you ask people to answer a stupid question, most will refuse to do so

People would then start ranching elephants instead of poaching them — and you could feed half a million people with the elephant meat currently going to waste

Bridge is such an unforgiving game; you can’t afford to take your eye off the ball for a single moment.…

It is often asked how chess became so popular in the USSR. My answer is that most areas of creative…

White to play. This position is from Vallejo-Wynn, Bangkok 2016. White has sacrificed a rook and a bishop. He now…

In Competition No. 2944 you were invited to imagine what characters from Shakespeare’s plays would have made of this year’s…

An excerpt from a poem (-eleven words, one hyphened, in ODQ) reads clockwise in the perimeter from the top left…

To create entries at 5, 9, 20, 29D and 41, answers to clues in italics become TREE-HUGGERS (15), embracing sallow,…

We are almost the only nation to defy Edmund Burke’s pessimism about democracy

Stop trying to maximise your results by going for the bullseye

Plus: the troublesome case of the thank-you letter signed ‘C’

And a hot tip on claret houses’ second wines

The term has been in uneasy company since its first recorded appearance