It’s one of the greatest three-word political slogans. No, not ‘Stop the Boats’ or ‘Axe the Tax’. But rather, a…

We keep being told that the coming budget will be the most significant for many a year. That may be…

In the book of great evasions of responsibility through history, a new chapter to be added concerns the prowess of…

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‘I’ll swap you two of my rolls for three of your spogs.’ That was the sort of thing you’d hear…

Somewhere in the vast array of documents the Cabinet Office has gathered on the appointment of Peter Mandelson as the…

It’s tempting, even fashionable, to pooh-pooh the hyperbole from our tech overlords. The release in 2022 of ChatGPT, the first…

Is the right to be angry and miserable the best that modern feminism can do? Or is it possible, while…

As Tony Blair contested a third election in 2005, the Labour government’s popularity was in tatters. The divisions in the…

In the aftermath of Peter Magyar’s victory in Hungary, while I watch people dancing in the streets as they celebrate…

It’s a year since the Supreme Court ruled that gender means biological sex – and not much has changed. The…

Balls to that Why are elections called ‘ballots’? — The word ballot comes from the Italian, pallotta, meaning a small…

Home Sir Keir Starmer tried to explain himself to parliament after Sir Olly Robbins was sacked as permanent under-secretary of…

The Book of Common Prayer asks that those who ‘suffer for the sake of conscience’ might be strengthened. Those prayers…

A school in Greater Manchester has stripped 193 books from its library because they are ‘inappropriate’, liable to upset pupils…

Even the most Magaddicted Maga supporter might have had doubts about Donald Trump depicted as Jesus healing a sick man…

Flat broke Sir: John Power’s article on the property squeeze (‘Flatlined’, 18 April) identifies a symptom of a deeper problem,…

This session of parliament is due to end between 29 April and 6 May. Now the government is desperate for…

Of all Labour’s heartlands, none has more mythos or magic than Wales. Its history of pits and pulpits produced Nye…

It is a truism that in a democracy the voters get the government they deserve – and so we should…

Willie Donaldson, who died in 2005, has a claim to having had the best obituary sub-heading of any writer I…

During last September’s freshers’ fair at Royal Holloway, University of London, two students got into a brief verbal tiff that…

There’s a Tube strike in the old-fashioned style as I write – and you’ll understand the irritation, mine and that…

With its eerie slides portraying the long dead, a magic lantern becomes a focus for the novel’s understated meditation on mortality

Matthew Sturgis leads us into a sultry, incense-laden world where Death itself nurses a sinister preference for the young

Maia Hrushka wonders rhetorically whether translating The Trial into Italian left Primo Levi fatally depressed

Hours of footage were lost in the mayhem caused by teenage fans, while even adults ‘descended like flies’ to snatch as souvenirs anything the Beatles had touched

In his A-Z of life writing, Blake Morrison reassures the wannabe memoirist that ‘when a writer is born into a family, that family will have an afterlife’

A devotee of the kayak, David Gange delights in paddling small boats in the Faroes, Norway, Greenland, Newfoundland and the Caribbean

Many drawings depict a single male in a featureless environment or emerging as though from a Rorschach blot

The final volume of the tetralogy sees the once glamorous literary couple now adrift in New York as the mood changes with Covid, #MeToo and identity politics

Whether reportage or dashed down diary entries, Xandra Bingley’s vivid stories seem to catch life on the wing as it flashes past at terrifying speed

Christopher Priest’s sympathetic biography, completed by his wife after his premature death, will enlighten new readers and maintain Ballard’s reputation

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A pious Caravaggio JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI The Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbaran is sometimes thought of as a pious equivalent…

A Doll’s House has been reconstructed at the Almeida with a new script by Anya Reiss. Torvald Helmer is an…

I was on the way to Cecily Brown’s exhibition at the Serpentine last week when I heard that Kensington Gardens…

Would you pay a tenner on the door to see the Cockroaches, the Fireman, Patchwork, the Network and Bingo Hand…

Rose of Nevada is the third film in Mark Jenkin’s Cornish trilogy and if you have seen the first two…

On the first night of Welsh National Opera’s new Flying Dutchman, the company’s co-directors walked on stage to salute their…

Grade: B+ Some of us lost a lot of our early twenties to a god-game called Dungeon Keeper, in which…

There are two main schools of thought on AI in the Delingpole household. I, as the resident batshit-crazy reactionary tinfoil-hat…

If you’d told a first-generation white Australian in 1788 Sydney Town he was lucky to live where he lived, he…

John writes: ‘Here’s a curly one for you, Kel: what about the word Islam? It seems a strange word. Can…

Dante’s Beach, Ravenna We were having dinner in the Osteria del Tempo Perso (The Hostelry of Lost Time). It is…

We had gathered to discuss wine, but lesser topics intervened. During the Suez crisis, Clarissa Eden complained that it seemed…

Comp. 3446 invited you to write a critic’s review of a fictional pub or restaurant or hotel etc. I bit…

As the first Americans of the season got out of their car I scrunched up my face and groaned. ‘They’re…

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Films nowadays often come with warning of ‘smoking’, ‘partial nudity’, ‘drug use’ or something called ‘language’ (presumably to prevent alarming…

The American dream is dying, according to the Times. To mark the US’s 250th anniversary, the paper commissioned YouGov to…