China shows the way

How the left have abandoned their heroes of the past

The real agenda behind the eSafety Commissioner’s litigation against Musk

Dr Jim 2.0’s magic lamp

Can New York deliver even one or two unbiased jurors?

He sees nothing, knows nothing, so there's nothing to worry about, right?

Look out, China

Debate is fine, death threats are not

London’s stabbing frenzy

An early election?

New Caledonia is an archipelago in the South Pacific not far from Australia. James Cook discovered it in 1774, but,…

You will have heard, I am sure, of the Conservatives’ recent largesse towards working parents, as their ‘free’ childcare policy…

Tokyo For many, the idea of quitting a job they hate, of walking into their boss’s office and telling him…

‘Only a Conservative government, led by me, will not put our hard-earned economic stability at risk,’ said Rishi Sunak as…

China is often characterised as a copycat when it comes to industry and technology but in one way it has…

Kharkiv It was a strange feeling to walk alone through eerie corridors in the basement of the Kharkiv Opera Theatre…

Johannesburg It’s called the ‘Reverse Jive’, retracing your steps to where your journey began, and you’ll hear it talked about…

Ionce shared a bed with a doner kebab. I’d hungrily joined a 3 a.m. queue for much needed post-pub sustenance,…

Owing to a rise in temperature in southern Europe and a reduction in rainfall, the production of olive oil this…

Crime without borders How many nations are signed up to the International Criminal Court? – 124 signed the Rome Statute…

Free the C of E Sir: Patrick Kidd’s article on the shortcomings of today’s Church of England maintains the importance of the…

For the first time in more than two decades we are dog-less, and the house feels horribly empty. Our Patterdale…

Home Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, said: ‘I want to make a wholehearted and unequivocal apology’ for a ‘decades-long moral…

As soon as Rishi Sunak told the House of Commons that ‘there is going to be a general election in…

I suspect I’ve had a lot more fun writing about the annual Sunday Times Rich List over the years than…

There are several frustrating things about American college campuses, just one of which is the sheer volume of column inches…

This year, several articles in mainstream papers have sounded the alarm that the global human fertility rate will soon cross…

By the end of the year, Britain may be one of the few countries in the democratic world where the…

Three years ago next month, the journalist Andy Webb put in a Freedom of Information request to the BBC. He…

About 20 years ago, Burger King stopped selling its magnificent Double Mushroom Swiss burger, an act of corporate vandalism matched…

Last week saw a flurry of media reports, of whose headlines one of the worst preceded one of the best…

Geoffrey Wheatcroft identifies two root causes: the disastrous revision of the leadership election procedure, and David Cameron’s turn to the referendum as a device to govern

If, like Prince Albert, the then Prince Charles had been appointed head of the Royal Fine Art Commission, we might have been spared many architectural outrages

Women certainly found the bob a welcome change – but with shorter skirts came agonising over diets, depilatories, make-up and dangerous cosmetic surgery

When Olivia Laing began restoring the former property of a garden designer, she had no idea of the beauty that lay hidden by rampant weeds

Benny and Björn may have composed some of the catchiest tunes ever, but even their bounciest melodies are ballasted with melancholy

The story of the disappearance from an Essex manor house of a Romanian astronomer named Maria Vaduva starts to obsess a local journalist a century later

Left-wing polemicists accuse neoliberals, inspired by Friedrich Hayek, of secretly running the world – but if so, they’re not concealing the whole sinister project very well

Helen Molesworth has produced a magnificent history of gemstones – their symbolism, provenance, and the legends surrounding the best ones

Travelling home from an academic conference, Philip Notman suddenly feels sick and disorientated. But it will take a long time for him to identify the cause, and possible cure

An aspiring artist turned journalist, Bianca Bosker wheedles her way into the New York art scene – of gallerists, collectors, glamour and gossip

Every so often a bit of streamer television comes along and makes you grateful for what the form can achieve…

It’s August 2023 when news breaks that artefacts have gone missing, presumed stolen, from the British Museum. I’m about an…

Imagine a new series of Morse in which the real-ale-quaffing, jag-driving opera buff is turned into a speed-snorting mod on…

Many years ago, I wrote a book about Willie Nelson. At its conclusion, I reached for an elegiac, valedictory tone.…

Bristol has a new concert hall, and it’s rather good. The transformation of the old Colston Hall into the Bristol…

Action films are boring. This isn’t really an opinion, it’s just demonstrably true. Try it for yourself: put on any…

When a major artist releases a new album, the first thing to follow is the onslaught of think pieces. And…

After nearly 40 years, Withnail has arrived on stage. Sean Foley directs Bruce Robinson’s adaptation, which starts with a live…

It is a point of principle for the residents of the smarter parts of Manhattan not to notice – and…

The word ‘colonialism’ has become (at least for some people) a ‘snarl word’ – something that is always bad, and…

One needs wine more than ever, yet when imbibing, it can be hard to concentrate. So much is going on.…

Every year I’m summoned to a gathering which I strive to avoid. My first cousin, who loves a boozy party,…

A curious letter has been sent to my mother blaming the tumour in her neck on my birth. An NHS…

I don’t envy the people who run Ofcom. On the one hand, they’re under enormous political pressure to sanction GB…

To understand the development of technology, you may be better off studying evolutionary biology rather than, say, computer science. A…

In Comp. 3350 you were invited to write a refutation of a well-known line from literature. Ian Jack once imagined…

‘You make the cotton easy to pick, Mame,’ sang my husband with execrable delivery. ‘No,’ I said, ‘You can’t sing…

Q. I have a friend whom I see quite often who keeps asking me if I will ‘get her invited’ for…