Scott Morrison and the Coalition have a unique opportunity to go to the next election with their own version of…

Empty shelves beckon in a net zero world

Asking twice for a date is sexual harassment

We need answers

‘Net zero’ modelling is a joke

The vaccinated, not the unvaccinated, are driving the pandemic

My fellow commentators are all wrong

‘The train has left the station’ wrote one journalist, echoing the mainstream media pack on net zero emissions. Forget that…

Past leaders are looking pretty good

Zemmour’s star power is undeniable

France’s new insurgent, Éric Zemmour

My evening at a naked dining club

The gin craze of recent years has reached a scale that would have horrified Hogarth. You can now buy strawberry,…

‘Excommunication,’ reads a stone plaque on the wall of the church of St Theodore in Rome, ‘and a fine of…

Britain’s fatal unwillingness to confront Islamic extremism

Michael Nazir-Ali on his decision to join the Catholic church

Why is it so hard to live without a mobile phone?

The price I paid for my lab leak exposé

The commitment to reach ‘net zero’ emissions by 2050 is the most expensive government proposal in modern history. Yet it…

Doom and gloom Sir: The depressing article by Tom Woodman (‘You must be kidding’, 16 October) confirms my growing fears…

The wonderful thing about woke narratives is that you only have to wait a while until they collapse. The core…

Drinks at the palace The Queen was reported to have given up regular drinking. What do we know about her…

Twitter and other easily accessible means of online communication have encouraged the public to believe that Their Voice Will Be…

Home Sir David Amess, aged 69, the Conservative MP for Southend West, was stabbed to death while taking a constituency…

Does the economist David Blanchflower — who I described as the Bank of England’s ‘resident wacko’ during his 2006-09 tenure…

I’m accustomed to a sense of urgency in relation to Netflix offerings because the streaming service often buys short-term rights…

Rarely does a piece of journalism bring a tear to my normally cynical eye, but I did find this happening…

Thornton Wilder remarked that there are individuals who fall in love with an idea long before its appointed rendezvous with…

Two members of parliament have been killed in the past five and a half years. This, one long-serving MP laments,…

On the wooden jetty from which the ferry used to depart for the little island of Utoya, there stood for…

‘One player on four strings, with a bow.’ That’s what Bach’s six Cello Suites boil down to, says Steven Isserlis.…

Americans regard George III as a power-crazed petty tyrant – but he was the very opposite, says Kate Maltby

Literary estates work to preserve a writer’s reputation — and sometimes milk it too. The appearance of this novel by…

If Joseph Stalin was right about one thing it was his assertion that ‘the death of one man is a…

Twenty years ago The Corrections alerted a troubled world to the talents of Jonathan Franzen. Though cruel and funny and…

The tide of survival bias has retreated and left the Anglepoise a design classic. Its contemporaries from the mid-1930s, a…

Only in Australia and perhaps only in Sydney, that cradle of the cons and the jailers, the Rum Corps and…

At one point in an early Simpsons, Homer comes across an old issue of TV Guide, and finds the listing…

Stuart Jeffries on the cultural influence of the comic that said it was good to be bad

Next week The The release The Comeback Special, a 24-track live album documenting the band’s concert at the Royal Albert…

There’s a faint scent of desperation wafting through the Frieze tent this year. Pre–pandemic, this was where you came to…

Yaël Farber’s Macbeth sets out to be a great work of art. The director crams the Almeida’s stage with suggestive…

The American filmmaker Wes Anderson has an apartment in Paris and has always yearned to make a French movie but…

Robert Jackman talks to Robert Carlyle about Begbie, playing a Tory prime minister and the merits of keeping your head down

Go on, admit it; just when you thought it was safe to go back to the pub, or the office,…

Andrew Bolt, among others, has been scrupulous in drawing our attention to what he calls ‘race baiting’. For example, Greens…

YAY! We won the Gold Cup! We played Tim Leslie’s strong team in the 64-board final and beat them on…

Kenya   When I was a child in Kenya, the road from the Indian Ocean up to Nairobi was still…

White to play. Bjerre–Maiwald, Bundesliga 2021. Black has menacing counterplay, so White’s attack needs an accurate conclusion. What did he…

I don’t like losing at chess. It feels bad in the moment, whether my position subsides like a failed pudding,…

In Competition No. 3221, you were invited to submit an ode on the Marble Arch Mound. The 25 metre-high artificial…

The unclued lights are preceded by ALL (with the title suggesting that ALL is to be omitted). The paired lights…

New York   ‘The City of London is hiding the world’s stolen money’, screams a Bagel Times headline, as bogus…

We had gone to visit a friend at a stable yard on a country estate on a crisp autumn Sunday.…

The unclued lights (five of two words which include three apostrophes) can be preceded by the same word, all confirmed…

From our hypothetical drone-mounted camera let us look down into a secluded valley in the same series of valleys as…

Four hundred and fifty years ago this month, a great victory helped to safeguard European civilisation. The battle of Lepanto…

Q. During lockdown I made good friends with a neighbour who I would never have met otherwise. This man lives…

A £19,000-a-year London day school was in the news this week because it has started instructing its pupils about ‘white…

In 1966, the legendary adman David Ogilvy set out to buy a home in France. He boarded a transatlantic liner…

The BBC made a documentary about a man sent to prison for being the ‘most prolific rapist in British legal…