We have now entered the beginning of the end for the Albanese government; certainly the worst ‘gummint’ in Australia’s history…

Here at the Free Enterprise Centre for Law Reform, we have been slaving away on some long-overdue improvements to the…

B1 goes along for the ride

One man’s discrimination is another girl’s protection

Thanks to Labor’s deception, One Nation’s rise is here to stay

Let’s hear it for Taylor’s good old free-enterprise capitalism

An ancient evil has been rehabilitated

Separating friend from foe

Albo’s animal farm

Mysterious outbreak of Taylor Derangement Syndrome strikes Sky hosts

A grand alliance to save Australia and avoid death duties and taxes on the family home

There comes a time when every man must choose how to tackle an impending midlife crisis. A Maserati? A marathon?…

In the last few days, the government has performed two extraordinary about-turns. On Tuesday, it was revealed that the Treasury…

When the Labour party football team played a group of journalists at Loftus Road two years ago the hacks won…

You haven’t really made it in life until you’ve addressed the Oxford Union. That’s how I feel upon reading the…

Shortly before the New Gardens Organiser at the National Garden Scheme (NGS) is due to arrive at our farmhouse in…

‘We are taking the picture to Cannes,’ said John Gore, the producer and financier of My Duchess, my new film…

‘Where are all my favourite parts?’ Arnold Schoenberg asked, on being presented with a severe academic analysis of the Eroica…

I was in Newcastle the other day and found myself standing beneath Lord Grey’s Monument. The column is 135 feet…

So far, Labour has staged a contested leadership election in government only once – 50 years ago, in 1976. The…

If I were prime minister for a day (which is looking like an increasingly realistic prospect for all of us),…

Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, found his position challenged after Wes Streeting resigned as Health Secretary. At the…

One could go on endlessly about what the ancients have done for us, but one of the most interesting things…

Labour’s just deserts Sir: Last week’s leader hit the nail on the head (‘Desperate retreat’, 16 May). You have to…

I bought my first pint of bitter, in a pub in Slough, in 1972. It cost 12 pence. The Bank…

Instinct matters in politics. Overthink and you can underperform. Try to box too clever and you get punched in the…

The Labour party seems to have ignored the advice I gave it in last week’s column, and so we are…

As a sucker for any melody which relies heavily upon fourth and eighth notes hammered out on a piano, I…

Forgive the doom-mongering, but the US, and especially the UK, may be dangerously on course for a sovereign debt crisis.…

Already heard enough of ‘Is Manchesterism a thing and did Andy Burnham invent it?’ I’m afraid you’ll hear a great…

Vera Gedroits, the world’s first woman professor of surgery, inevitably fell foul of Stalin, despite supporting workers’ rights and saving hundreds of lives in the Russo-Japanese war

In his invigorating book on Shakespeare in translation, Daniel Hahn explains how in certain languages entire Shakespearean phrases can be rolled into a single word

Even in the grandest country houses guests were expected to eat and drink to excess, on chairs covered in wipe-clean leather and with chamber pots handy

The Clearances underlie Gunn’s vision like a skull beneath the moorland’s skin in the haunting historical novels he is best remembered for

Tim Parks and his wife struggle over scrub and scree in Sicily following the march of the Thousand in May 1860

In this work of autofiction, shocking violence is meted out to a small boy by his father in Wigton - leaving one wondering how the two are getting along these days

Jan-Werner Müller explores the ways in which both politicians and the electorate are conditioned by their built democratic environment

Since the emergence of Sky Bet in 2001, the ‘casinofication’ of sport has ensured that innumerable ‘micro-events’, along with major fixtures, are now firmly in the grip of gambling

After Hilda Kakikoski and 18 other women were elected to the Finnish parliament in 1907, female politicians emerged worldwide to challenge the patriarchy

Narrow boundaries can lead to focus and innovation, argues David Epstein, whereas total freedom can be paralysing and result, paradoxically, in conformity

The ‘readymade’ sculpture, signed R. Mutt, may have been the brainchild of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, and only claimed by Duchamp after her death

Confined spaces as well as open ones preoccupied Emily, with dungeons and graves filling her poetry as much as the unbounded landscape of the moors

You don’t have to be any specific age to thrill to the Opera Australia production of La Traviata. It is…

Everybody has been raving about Legends, the Netflix series about undercover customs officers in the 1990s busting a heroin ring.…

1536, by Ava Pickett, is set in a wheatfield near Colchester during the final months of Anne Boleyn’s life. Three…

About 15 years ago, I spoke to a relatively unknown neo-psychedelic musician from Western Australia called Kevin Parker. It was…

Time was you knew where you were with Tom and Jerry. He chases the mouse; catches the mouse; the mouse…

English National Opera’s first production created in Manchester is Angel’s Bone, a one-act opera by Du Yun and the librettist…

The 61st Venice Biennale arrived freighted with portent. To cut a long story short: Russia and Israel were invited to…

Lucian Freud almost had a second career in the cinema. He acted as an extra in a couple of films…

Visitors have a licence to offend, and some visitors offend more than others, and it was reasonable to assume that…

Speccie reader Tim writes: ‘I’m interested to know when (and why) “partner” took on its new meanings. Years ago, I…

Dante’s Beach, Ravenna It was midnight, more or less, and my middle daughter, Magdalena, 18, said with all the untroubled…

You don’t go to a strip club expecting to put something in your mouth unless you’re an incorrigible roué. So…

‘Can I go now?’ said the farmer I was talking to over my gate, and he looked so scared I…

Solvers had to highlight the BINARY (101010111110) and HEXADECIMAL (ABE) forms of the PUZZLE NUMBER (2750), thereby both filling in…

How worried should we be about AI? Absolutely petrified, according to a new documentary called Chasing Utopia. Billed as the…

Our esteemed editor was once excoriated for saying that the public had had enough of experts. ‘The people of this…

Q. My sister has married in later life and we all like her husband. They have moved nearby and now…

The 23D 41A, stirred up by 3D and 6A 26D the mother of 29A. Unclued lights identify the protagonist and…

For Competition 3450 you were invited to submit a short story written in words of one syllable. This challenge produced…

At the start of May, 14-year-old Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus became the youngest player in history to cross the symbolic 2700…