‘Just say No,’ was the catchphrase of Nancy Reagan back in the 1980s. The slogan was used to encourage people…

Most Australians know little about Morocco because it’s one of those places that rarely makes the news. Not much goes…

... and the PwC imbroglio

A solution to ensure combat behaviour?

A long-suppressed expert report settles the argument

Global warming has little if anything to do with recent fires

The climate cult will cost us all dearly

Blame falling birthrates on climate change

Sackings as journalistic standards hit rock bottom

It certainly seems like it when you go shopping at Woolies

We are extinguishing our own freedom

Can the Tories survive a mortgage crisis?

We finally know the identity of the scientists in the lab linked to Covid

Imran Khan on the repression taking place in Pakistan

How instant communication killed conversation

The tragedy of Sheen’s stowaways

The moral case for becoming a foster carer

Home Boris Johnson, the former prime minister, was ritually buried by the House of Commons voting by 354 to seven…

On her recent visit to Washington, shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves presented herself as the perfect candidate to be the next…

When the political cabinet met on Tuesday, by-elections were on the agenda. The Prime Minister is facing four of them.…

A teacher once told me that he couldn’t stand Pakistanis ‘because of the smell’. I was 13 at the time…

If anyone reading this ever bought shares in the diversity racket, then I would suggest you start dumping them now.…

I have a plan for my old age. Now that we all might live for a century or so, feeling…

Life in a comfortable modern flat with her husband and two young sons leaves Natsumi so depressed she thinks she’s losing her mind

A young woman and an older, married man fall passionately in love in the last days of the GDR – but abuse and jealousy soon turn things sour

Scott Shapiro describes five major hacks – the most serious of which, the creation of the Mirai botnet, was the work of three young men hoping to make a few quick bucks

Adam Nicolson thinks so. But his liveliest stories are about Pythagoras, who lived in a hole in the ground, and Thales, who fell into a well while studying the night sky

A group of students in Iowa City meet in bars and seminar rooms, but, separated by class, race and wealth, their connection is only fleeting

The singer-songwriter deserved to be far better known in his lifetime – but reticence and mental illness contributed to his tragically early death in 1974

In his ‘journey into the psychology of belonging’, Michael Bond focuses on the positive side of tribalism, leaving its darker aspects mostly unexplored

Her 1980 ‘Right to Buy’ policy, though popular at the time, led to the serious erosion of social housing stock and today’s itinerant population, says Kieran Yates

‘Immediate Justice’, the government’s new policing initiative of pursuing petty criminals, reflects the black-clad law-enforcer’s 1970s methods exactly

It’s not just Putin’s war, says Jade McGlynn. The mass of Telegram data shows how much the nation as a whole supports the offensive

A corpse comes back to life and goes on a road trip. Lorrie Moore’s powerful
new novel leaves Philip Hensher shaken, troubled, but also consoled

It’s fascinating to hear that one of the greater theatre directors we have produced, Neil Armfield, is directing Anthony LaPaglia…

The three Just Stop Oil protestors were sitting in the stalls, somewhere near the middle of the front row. Someone…

Rules in art exist to be broken but it takes chutzpah, which could explain why so many rule-breakers in modern…

Having been unexpectedly delighted by the Royal Ballet’s revival of Christopher Wheeldon’s Corybantic Games at Covent Garden last week, I…

I’m ideologically opposed to bicycles for all the obvious reasons: they don’t have lovely big nostrils which you can blow…

There are artists you go to see expecting to be challenged, surprised, even let down. And there are artists you…

It’s the whodunnit – or whatdunnit – that has kept scientists, politicians, journalists and armchair sleuths speculating ever since the…

When Winston Went to War with the Wireless is the clumsy and misleading title of a new play about John…

It isn’t easy selling out Wembley Stadium with its capacity of between 70,000 and 90,000 (depending on the exact arrangement).…

They closed the schools for several days recently in the small New Zealand town of Opotiki. A gang leader had…

A Speccie reader has asked me for the origin of the expression ‘mumbo jumbo’ – and there turns out to…

David Hodge is the 2023 British Chess Solving champion, after winning the Winton British Chess Solving Championship in Nottingham last…

They do salads differently in America. Caesar salad, Waldorf salad, even their egg salads and potato salads: they’re big, they’re…

The Red Lion, East Chisenbury, is in the Pewsey Vale on the edge of Salisbury Plain. Wiltshire’s strangeness surpasses even…

It’s a long way from Edgbaston to Karachi, but that’s where my thoughts were turning after Australia’s last-gasp victory in…

Last weekend an audio recording emerged of a 13-year-old girl being called ‘despicable’ by her teacher at a Church of…

‘I was 12 when I first got laid.’ ‘Where was that?’ ‘In Middlesbrough.’ ‘How the hell did you get lucky…