At the time of Labor’s election back in 2022, this magazine raised a few eyebrows by suggesting that the brand…

Before looking at Marvellous Melbourne again, I want to note and praise the decision made yesterday in Washington on the…

The conflict in Gaza has, paradoxically, caused the greatest problems in Australian public debate for the politically correct class who…

As Bowen heads off to another pointless Cop gabfest

Stand for what you believe in

United Nations calls out trans threat to women’s sports

Trump has skewered the expert and advisor class

Strategic incompetence in the new Great Game

But is it buried and cremated?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr intends to clean up America’s act

The US and Australia should agree to invest in each other free of corporate tax

Trump delivered the coup de grâce

How the elites in Australia & the US always miss the big picture

On Sunday morning, a communications cable between Sweden and Lithuania was damaged, almost certainly deliberately. Just hours later, the C-Lion…

With just over 60 days left in office, Joe Biden’s White House has significantly escalated the Ukraine war it had…

Babycham, the drink you perhaps last sipped while tapping the ash from a black Sobranie as Sade played on the…

Next week, parliament will have its first opportunity to vote on assisted dying in almost a decade. This is a…

Avote on assisted dying was supposed to be one of the easiest reforms for Keir Starmer’s government. To many, including…

If you go down to the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise… in Dulwich Wood – a charming…

What will this government be most remembered for? Ed Miliband’s wind turbines? Assisted dying? Farm bankruptcies? No: rather, I suggest…

The nomination of husky-voiced, musclebound Robert F. Kennedy Jr – who once dumped a dead bear cub in Central Park…

When the Taoiseach Simon Harris called a snap election for 29 November, Ireland’s electricity board asked political parties not to…

Life support Sir: If the Terminally Ill (End of Life) Bill is passed into law we will have crossed the…

The Chancellor of the Exchequer found time this week to edit her own page on the social media site LinkedIn.…

My old mucker Donald Trump’s return to the White House has predictably sent the woke brigade into hysteria. From posting…

Home Thousands of farmers protested in Westminster against inheritance tax on farms. Tesco, Amazon, Greggs and 76 other chains belonging…

Many commentators have criticised the film Gladiator II on technical aspects of the fighting. But there was so much more…

‘Et remarquant que cette vérité, je pense, donc je suis, était si ferme et si assurée, que toutes les plus…

Regular invitations to Mansion House banquets petered out after I asked a shifty-looking waiter for a glass of champagne and…

A parallel is being drawn between the Tories and the miners in the 1980s and Labour and the farmers today.…

Welcome to the United States of Disruption. From his ‘Winter White House’ in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, Donald Trump has been busy…

I was thrilled to learn that our government intends to enjoy an ‘open’ relationship with China – one of my…

Right after Donald Trump’s landslide, I opined on YouTube that this turning point could sound the death knell for Woke…

I mentioned some weeks ago that one of the great points of interest – not to say enjoyment – in…

Ysenda Maxtone Graham, Stuart Heritage and Rob Orchard, among others, explore the mysteries and frustrations of modern life

A satire on radical economic libertarianism combines with a cosy Cotswold murder mystery in an ingenious series of stories within stories

God is real, Rod Dreher insists, and we’re born to be in communion with him. But the focus and mental commitment that prayer requires are impossible if we’re forever doom-scrolling

In a dialogue with her younger self, the Welsh poet Gwyneth Lewis tries to make sense of her traumatic upbringing at the hands of a repressive, coercive mother

Glamorous, enigmatic and well read, Anthony Eden’s wife was a discreet but unmistakable influence in Downing Street in the mid-1950s

From D.W. Griffiths’s 1916 epic Intolerance to Tom Hooper’s hilariously misjudged Cats, 26 films provide cautionary examples of mega-budget hubris

The neurologist’s diverse interests – from colour blindness to cephalopods – are strikingly evident in letters to family, friends and patients, as well as his unfailing courtesy and compassion

In an outstanding study of the Old Testament, Peterson teases out the inner meaning of one story after another. But though in effect signed up to Christian metaphysics, his beliefs are a mystery

There’s always something breathtaking about the prices great art can fetch but the sale of Leonardo’s ‘Salvator Mundi’ at Christie’s…

We are all surely familiar with those stories of naive young Brits who travel abroad and are persuaded by a…

Grade: A When Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata was published in 1818, pianists were confronted with a mixture of ‘demonic energy and…

Scent and the Art of the pre-Raphaelites… there’s an obvious problem here: how do you represent one sense by another?…

Adapting ballets out of plot-heavy novels set in fantasy locations and populated with multiple characters is a rubbish idea. The…

Wolf Hall is one of the few remaining jewels in the BBC’s tarnished crown. Presumably that’s why it was allowed…

Finally, a taste of the authentic Bob Dylan live experience. On the two previous occasions that I’ve seen Dylan, in…

Going for Gold is a biographical drama about a forgotten star of the 1970s. Frankie Lucas was a middleweight boxing…

Sean Baker’s Anora won the Palme d’Or at Cannes and is hotly tipped to win big at the Oscars and…

It is 100 years since the death of Gabriel Fauré, a composer whose spellbinding romantic tunes emerge from harmonies and…

Were you to pop down to the shops and buy a Wagon Wheel these days, chances are you’ll be disappointed.…

Here’ s a style guide suggestion – it’s time to resurrect the word ‘Aboriginal’. With a lower case ‘a’ this…

We were assembled to taste Chilean wines assisted by magnificent Scottish food, courtesy of the Scottish embassy in London, otherwise…

Africa Orientale Italiana ‘Where did you get those glasses?’ a stylish Italian gentleman asked me, gesturing at the acetate L.G.R.…

An ex-copper who blogs as Dominic Adler – not his real name – came up with a good phrase this…

‘This is a New York strut,’ said the builder boyfriend as he wedged in place a steel bar, bracing shut…

‘Good for you. Amazing. I should do the same.’ ‘You must feel great. Lucky you.’ This is what I hear…

The Romans never invented the stirrup. What we call a ‘chest of drawers’ was unknown before the late 17th century…

Q. I have been working in London as a receptionist in a private members’ club and consequently have had the…

I’ve heard people using back-to-back housing to mean terraces separated by back yards. But strictly, back-to-back houses are built against…