It was certainly an entertaining moment in an interview between former British politician Nigel Farage and his good friend former…

Talking nuclear

Eco-extremism takes another hit

Investors are pulling out

Queensland Health, tear up that flyer!

... backs Bowen the climate clown

How the national curriculum is politicising our kids

Labor (and the Teals) now actively undermining Israel

Trump wanted to protect the Capitol, not overthrow it

Uncontrolled immigration still government policy

Of all the Queen’s prime ministers, Gladstone suffered the most from her wilfulness, but while he opposed her policies he did much to popularise her monarchy

After Wilde’s visit to the US in 1882, his philosophy of life became an inspiration to early filmmakers in their revolt against corporate America, Wall Street and provincial pettiness

A 23-year-old hairdresser casually picks up a copy of Swann’s Way left behind by a client – only to find the novel taking over her life

Oliver Smith finds sanctity in remote peninsulas and holy islands, but is less impressed by the tacky ephemera that decorate our more accessible shrines

As eight teenage girls progress through a boxing championship in Reno, fighting is shown to be an undeniable, animal part of femininity in this knockout debut novel

Posthumously published against the author’s wishes, Until August should not detract from Marquez’s best work – but it would have been better left as a curiosity in the archives

Candida Moss reveals that many New Testament texts, including St Mark’s Gospel, were penned by enslaved scribes who became influential interpreters of Christian scripture

Following in Wordsworth’s footsteps, Esther Rutter finds new self-confidence and happiness in the entrancing surroundings of Dove Cottage

The extreme savagery of the ‘white knights’ may be a thing of the past, but echoes of the Klan were all over the shameful Capitol attack of 2021, says Kristofer Allerfeldt

It sounds irresistible, doesn’t it? A National Theatre Live version of a play by Jack Thorne (the magician who conjured…

Which part of ‘No thanks’, many Australians may be wondering, does our Prime Minister not understand? Six months after the…

In last week’s edition of The Speccie our esteemed editor repeated a widely believed urban myth about the origin of…