As the country prepares for Australia Day, many Australians fear what is happening to our tolerant society. It has taken…

Here at the Joseph Stalin Centre for Law Reform – and before we go any further, we do not want…

Crimes in remote communities are being ignored like Muslim rape gangs

Governments can’t afford to restrict migration despite the backlash

The cost of accepting immigrants who don’t share our values is too high

Will Australians vote to stay on the Labor train or switch to the Coalition?

Does anyone care?

We must cultivate good citizenship or face dire consequences

The cowardice of the Liberals is putting them in last place in the Anglosphere

Justice for the unvaccinated is coming with Trump

Let’s hope he sees off Albanese

My beavers have been kidnapped. A few months ago there were five of them living on my family’s farm on…

Ottawa For the past fortnight, Canada’s parliament has been empty. When Justin Trudeau resigned as Liberal leader, he announced a…

The ceramics industry of Stoke-on-Trent is one of the great survivors of the Victorian era. At its height, some 70,000…

‘Sorry sir, the rules clearly state that all single men must be accompanied by a woman.’ As the frustrated guest…

The French sociologist Alain Touraine coined the term ‘post-industrial society’ in 1969. By the 1980s it had become shorthand for…

The special relationship is dead, long live the special relationship. On Friday, at a ‘Stars and Stripes & Union Jack…

‘Don’t use our real names,’ says the teenage gypsy. ‘Other gypsies will laugh at us.’ Even in a tracksuit, the…

For an 88-year-old man who has spent only five days in the United States and doesn’t speak English, Pope Francis…

Charity no longer begins at home. It starts with a thunderous denunciation of western sins, promotes an excoriation of this…

Those who use TikTok, or are familiar with Ed Davey’s dance routines on social media, may have heard of the…

Donald Trump descends on Davos as if he were in Apocalypse Now. Four years ago I saw his cavalcade of…

Why does Keir Starmer find it so hard to use the word ‘terrorist’ when talking about a man who buys…

Home Axel Rudakubana, 18, pleaded guilty to the murder of three girls in a knife attack at a Taylor Swift-themed…

Whatever way you voted in 2016, I suspect that many of us have the same image of post-Brexit Britain. It…

I had thought that having to be inaugurated indoors would have cramped Donald Trump’s style. Not so. The rhetoric with…

Keir Starmer surprised his colleagues during his first week in power when he appointed his old friend Richard Hermer KC…

When I first saw the headline I was highly optimistic. Sir Keir Starmer had identified the threat to society posed…

On the cusp of an almighty row over Trump’s planned mass deportations, let’s look to Europe for light relief. Last…

London’s capital market needs a kick in the pants, as I write every week, and ‘activist investors’ are no bad…

Far from being a crusader for virtue, the Roman statesman is seen as a violent firebrand, disregarding the law when it suited him and laying the groundwork for Julius Caesar’s assassination

Too many commentators, Luke Pepera included, extrapolate from one region they know well to a continent boasting a multitude of religions, languages and ethnic roots

The Leicester-born striker was neither exceptionally skilful nor assiduous; but he worked out how to score goals, and later excel in broadcasting, through intelligence and calm resilience

The victorious Hospitallers soon subsided into genteel irrelevance, while the Ottomans remained a formidable Mediterranean power for centuries to come

A double biography of John Ruskin and James Whistler describes in detail the notorious feud between the prominent critic and the flamboyant post-Impressionist

With the collapse of the Weimar Republic, the eldest son of Kaiser Wilhelm II decided he was best off allying himself with the Nazis, and seeing what he could obtain for his family in the process

When it comes to the power of association, smell is unmatched, says Jonas Olofsson. It can take us back to childhood in an instant

In a whimsical piece written by Churchill in 1947, Lord Randolph’s ethereal figure appears in the studio at Chartwell – to muse on the possibility of a political career for his son

Returning to the family house in Dublin after the death of her mother in Paris, 22-year-old Anastasia expects a warm welcome – only to be steadily spurned by her embittered grandmother

Published in 1897, Queiros’s novella revisits Christianity’s first man and woman, departing from the Creation story in ways both playful and profound

Art takes every possible shape and size. The exhibition of Japanese ukiyo-e prints (running at the National Gallery of Australia…

Many indie types from the 1980s and 1990s were secretly metal fans. But it’s not something they ever really wanted…

The Brutalist, which is a fictional account of a Jewish-Hungarian architect in postwar America, has attracted a great deal of…

A paradox of art history: to understand the artists of the past, it helps to study how, and where, they…

Needless to say, there have been any number of thrillers that rely on what Alfred Hitchcock called a MacGuffin: something,…

The West End’s new political show, Kyoto, can’t be classed as a drama. A drama involves a main character engaged…

Since its première in Paris in 1841, Giselle has weathered a bumpy ride. For St Petersburg in 1884, Petipa gave…

When a phrase really takes off in the political sphere, you will recognise it by the frequency with which it…

Once upon a time on Broadway, Igor Stravinsky composed a ballet for Billy Rose’s revue Seven Lively Arts. After the…

The public shaming of elite pole vault coach Alex Parnov reminds me of the time I was sent to cover…

We missed it! Back on January 18 we should have been celebrating National Thesaurus Day. Mind you, the day is…

Let us indulge in a slight paraphrase. What rough beast slouches towards the White House to be reborn? The inauguration…

I can’t say I know the new President of the United States very well, but during the five years I…

I was leaving the car park of my local shop yesterday – a manoeuvre which involves a hair-raising reverse on…

Pub food in Britain has had a mixed reputation over the years. For a long time, the most a pub…

Malindi, Kenya In 1967, Tanzania’s socialist rulers seized all my parents’ property – their ranchland, their home and their cattle…

The one question the priest did not ask me, thank goodness, was why I wanted to get married. That might…

‘I love learning about things’ (Amelia, aged nine). Not all children do, but many who have not experienced the pleasure…