Could our progressive elites have got it more wrong? Far from being derided by the ‘enlightened’ countries of Europe and…

I suppose no-one will believe me when I say that I predicted the result of the UK election. But I…

The latest conflict of Church and State in New South Wales began when the state’s education department banned the use…

Keep politics out of the marketplace

At the end of the week of Treasurer Joe Hockey’s second Federal Budget, I recalled the caustic observation about the…

The clues to a Shorten prime ministership are there for all to see

Far from being the exception, lone wolves are at the heart of the jihadist strategy

Tony Abbott’s change of budgetary and political tack has re-invigorated his loyal supporters

The rise in Scottish nationalism may have implications for landowners and immigrants alike

An interview with Steve Hilton, Cameron's former chief strategist

If he does, he will alienate Tory Eurosceptics

Meanwhile it's said India and China are using the relief effort to compete for influence

It combines Dutch can-do and Catholic joie de vivre – just don’t try to speak French…

Home The annual rate of inflation turned negative in April, for the first time since 1960, with deflation of 0.1…

My decision to remain as leader; and Patrick O’Flynn’s resignation

Plus: high pay on the railways, and where you can drink and drive

‘There must be no thought of who is a Liberal and who a Unionist’

Plus: More suggestions for cheap funerals; the dark mysteries of the creative process; and lovely pit bulls

Already Tory backbenchers with grudges are getting ready to agitate

Plus: it was the hunts wot won the election; and obituary battles

Plus: whether oil prices are set to soar once more; and Red Len is at it again, working busily against Labour’s interests

We’re all in deep water now, says Rose George, having poisoned the seashells and plankton that sustain our oceans — and ourselves

The enchanting illustrations alone are worth the price of this hefty book — which is more for the coffee table than the bedside

Robert Hutchinson glamorises the ‘mapcap, harum-scarum escapades’ of Thomas Blood, but this 17th-century rogue was no Scarlet Pimpernel

All hell broke loose when the editors at Cape turned down Barbara Pym’s seventh novel (even though it wasn’t much good)

The first world war, as well as inspiring some wonderful poetry, provided Edward Thomas with an elegant end to a messy life

Amitav Ghosh’s Opium Wars trilogy reaches a deafening finale with Flood of Fire

On the 70th anniversary of Victory in Europe day, many Eastern Europeans boycotted celebrations in Moscow, marking the day with…

Western modernism - from the paintings of Monet to the land art of Walter De Maria - feels supremely at home on the paradisiacal art island of Naoshima

Christian Thielemann and Andris Nelsons apparently split the orchestra down the middle. So why don’t they hire them both?

Plus: more lost boys from the CBSO and Andris Nelsons in an electric concert performance of Parsifal

Plus: something peculiar, unsettling and sensational from Mark Baldwin and Gavin Higgins for Rambert Dance

An epic new Radio 4 series that shows how to do history on radio without Neil MacGregor

The Laird’s House at Skara Brae on Orkney overlooks the Neolithic settlement, uncovered in a huge storm in 1850. Predating…

But he forgave me, thanks to Miss South Carolina Speedway

I was lucky enough to sit next to David Gilmour of Pink Floyd at a friend’s dinner the other night.…

The former world champion Vladimir Kramnik recently espoused an opening system which I elaborated in a tournament in Germany in 1975.…

White to play. This is from Kramnik-Svidler, Russian Team Championship, Sochi 2015. The black pieces are in a tangle and…

In Competition No. 2898 you were invited to give an update on one of the children in Cautionary Tales who…

The unclued Across lights (Individually or as a pair) are defined by the unclued Down lights (individually or as a…

The unclued lights were preceded by PETER (translation of 32A) to form phrases listed in Chambers or Brewer. First prize…

Free schools are a permanent feature of our educational landscape now

You can judge a business by the things it does that aren't strictly necessary

Plus: I worry that talking to my dog is making me eccentric

Vintage champagne seemed the obvious choice

The most overused word in supermarket fruit and veg departments