Sensible and fair-minded Australians, whether supporters of the Coalition, Labor, One Nation, or Cory Bernardi’s new party (obviously supporters of…

FGM: It’s whose fault? African immigrant, Khadiija Gbla, of No FGM Australia accused ‘the health system in Australia’ of ‘failing’…

Tim wilson is wrong In this past Saturday’s Inquirer page, Liberal MP Tim Wilson – former Commissioner in the Australian…

Sometimes, Pauline Hanson’s ‘Please explain’ and the Senate’s role as House of Review achieve perfect congruence. Last week, in Question…

Prior to the World Trade Centre attacks, no one would have cared that I was a Muslim. My ethnic heritage…

Modern-day leftism, which is the bohemian spirit of 1968 codified and institutionalised, dominates almost every aspect of Western societies, not…

The Left now thinks it’s nailed one of the most irritating thorns in its flesh, the flamboyant conservative polemicist Milo…

As punishment for voting last week to correct (in part) his damaging job-destroying two year legislated delay in fully implementing…

To my mind, a bookshop is like a library — the only difference is that you buy the books, you…

If you believe the hype, Emmanuel Macron is l’anti-Trump. He is what the inter-national centre-left, reeling from the shocks of…

I am quite used to people smirking into their sleeves when they hear that I’ve just written a book called…

How would you feel about a Queen Camilla, as in the wife of King Charles? Personally I’d be dead against,…

There is much to be faulted in Uber, which has branched out from delivering people into delivering meals, under the…

When Lt Gen H.R. McMaster was appointed by Donald Trump to the post of national security adviser, newspaper reports hailed…

Life in Britain has become much cruder, meaner and more spiteful practically everywhere. It can be seen in people’s behaviour…

Of all the stories I’ve heard about the fallout from Brexit — families divided, work jeopardised, friendships ended — the…

Forget left and right — the new divide in politics is between nationalists and globalists. Donald Trump’s team believe that…

For a body supposedly committed to eliminating inequality between the sexes, the Women and Equalities Select Committee don’t exactly lead…

I was sorry Kraft Heinz’s £115 billion bid for Unilever collapsed so fast — unveiled on Friday, it was dead…

Who do you think was responsible for Europe’s biggest environmental disaster of the past three decades; one that caused more…

I got lost in the forest near my house while walking the dog the other week. The path I was…

Last month, at Policy Exchange, I met a charming, quiet American general called H.R. McMaster. In conversation, I was struck…

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As a child in fascist Italy, Clara Petacci (known as Claretta) was dutifully adoring of Benito Mussolini and the cult…

John Burnside is the author of an impressive bookshelf of elegant novels and slim, precise volumes of poetry, and like…

‘To get a confession from a proud male factor, it is always better to call for a poet than a…

Rogues’ Gallery describes itself as a history of art and its dealers, and Philip Hook, who has worked at the…

Alex Salmond, former first minister of Scotland, once claimed that he could always tell Scottish fiction from English. Novels, he…

When A.A. Gill died last December, there was wailing and gnashing of teeth across the nation. I must admit this…

At the start of this novella the protagonist, Thibaut, is ambushed by Wehrmacht soldiers between the ninth and tenth arrondissements.…

As a child, I used to travel with my mother from London to Cannes, a journey that took slightly under…

This book kept reminding me of Robin Williams in One Hour Photo. Just as his character spied on customers’ private…

Christopher de Bellaigue, a journalist who has spent much of his working life in the Middle East, has grown tired…

In Ali’s Café, just inside Turkey on the Bulgarian border, Iraqi and Syrian refugees spend their days drinking tea. Now…

Frank Martin is one of those composers whose work seems to survive only by virtue of constantly renewed neglect. His…

Borag Thungg, Earthlets! If those words mean something to you, then congratulations — you are leading a good life. If…

This weekend Brian Matthew will present his last-ever Sounds of the 60s show on Radio 2. Now 88, he’s been…

Rival law-enforcement agencies arguing about which of them should investigate a murder has, of course, been a staple of crime…

What does it take to become a prostitute? Youth, beauty, courage, sexual allure, a love of money, a need for…

I imagine that quite a few subscribers to the Australian Ballet would be happiest if they were only offered full…

If there’s one tournament I’d really like to play in, it’s the Cavendish in Monaco, the largest money bridge tournament…

Matthew Sadler’s retirement from full-time international chess is one of the great losses to the British game. Occasionally, the one-time…

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In Competition No. 2986 you were invited to submit a poem about a deadly foodstuff.   My inspiration for this…

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The unclued lights (one of two words), correctly paired, are of a kind and are defective in the same way.…