From preposterously clownish Nazis to battery-powered campaign buses that have to be ditched in favour of diesel alternatives, the political…

I am sure you remember The Year My Voice Broke. You probably also remember The Year of Living Dangerously. You…

But right about Matt Kean

The submarine decision is not only wise, but potentially hugely beneficial

We’ll be wasting a lot of money on these subs

...and the rocks, plants and trees

The national curriculum substitutes raw emotion for hard learning

It’s easy to see who’s losing

The restrictions and vaccine narratives are fast unravelling

Obedient Middle Kingdom tributary state

What’s bad for democracy may turn out to be good for Trump

The pupils who never came back after lockdown

The fine art of snubbing

Could a mild-mannered economist put an end to the Turkish leader’s 20-year rule?

Chinese AIs may be limited by the need to control what they say

The ebb and flow of life on a houseboat

The James Webb space telescope and the search for alien life

What I learned growing up in the murder capital of Wales

Boris Johnson should not be forgiven for his handling of lockdown. He needlessly criminalised everyday behaviour when voluntary guidelines would…

Beyond a joke Is it time to rewrite an old joke? A letter published in Time in 1963 suggested that…

Uncertain times Sir: Kate Andrews’s article on the era of economic certainty (‘Crash test’, 18 March) is not the first…

Even now, months after he was forced to resign, Boris Johnson has a potency that no other British politician can…

Wyndham Lewis once said that ‘the ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season’ – but that,…

In the language of the Mapuche people of Patagonia, futa (I’m told) means ‘river’ and leufú means ‘big’. So Spanish–speaking…

You’ll recall that I’ve railed for years against zero interest rates, which transplanted a cancerous marrow into the very bones…

I was brought up on Dan Quayle jokes. You know the ones – like the gag that the then vice-president…

Eliot guarded her privacy closely, but her novels explore themes of sacrifice and restraint, and her heroines are studies in the impossibility of having it all

The answer is, we shall never know – but one Norwegian colonel’s quick decision may have ensured Churchill’s premiership and the success of Dunkirk

Five women in their nineties dine together monthly, keeping loneliness at bay with gossip, advice and reminiscence

Sexually assaulted as a teenager, Christiana Spens describes her life of perpetual anxiety – until the birth of her son ‘transforms everything’

Toby Young is struck by how prescient Tocqueville’s observations have proved on the social and political structures of the many countries he visited

The prospect of a revival of Rudolf Nureyev’s Don Quixote by the Australian Ballet in Melbourne is a reminder of…

Is the World Service superfluous, or a vital adjunct of British diplomacy, wonders Oscar Edmondson

It’s payback time: women, artists from ethnic minorities and non-western traditions are taking over the exhibition schedules. On the heels…

Think of pop music as being like the parable of the sower. These days the seed falling on stony ground…

The Beasts is a rural psychological thriller from Spain that has won many awards across Europe and even though we…

Sunday-night dramas on the two main terrestrial channels definitely aren’t what they used to be. Not so long ago, you…

The murderous odyssey of Bonnie and Clyde is a tricky subject for a musical because the characters are such loathsome…

It does no harm, once in a while, to assume that the creators of an opera actually know what they’re…

Robert Jackman on the rise of the modern British B-movie

The charity Oxfam has come under fire for issuing a bizarre ‘inclusive’ language guide to staff. The 92-page report warns…

Two weeks after our Prime Minister told us he will be attending the coronation of Charles III we still don’t…

Some decades ago, there was a Tory MP called John Stokes: eventually, and deservedly, Sir John. He had no interest…

Five unclued lights are connected with one partner, four with the other. Another links both. Across 1    Nervous about yarn…

Some excellent thinking this month from the Italian complexity theorist Luca Dellanna: Two days ago, the EU parliament approved a…

On Monday, a bill was passed by the National Assembly in France that will give courts the power to prevent…

In the world of chess politics, the map has been redrawn. Russia is now officially in Asia, and no longer…

The lady who walks her dog past my horses every day was obviously eager to tell me something. I have…

It’s been all go. After breakfast Treena brought a basin of warm water, a bar of soap and a face…