The humiliating slapdown of Australia’s ambassador to the USA, and former prime minister Kevin Rudd by President Donald Trump in…

Let’s call the whole thing off

On Senator Paterson’s Magical Mystery Apology Tour

The risk of fascism lies with the left and the elites

Menzies would oppose it outright

How Victoria’s parliament failed its own people

Labor are coming after your super

Australia risks being a marooned holdout of eco-lunacy

Xi seals a rare deal as world agreement reached on Kevin

How process circumvents the law

A soldier explains how Sir John Kerr was a hero

We saw the world end in Berlin, again. Another Ring Cycle – hurrah! – in the beautiful Staatsoper theatre on…

During Jane Austen’s time, their roles would be reversed. Lady Annabel Goldsmith, who left us last week at 91, would…

Ayoub Khan seemed delighted. Last Thursday, it was announced that fans of the Israeli football club Maccabi Tel Aviv would…

After two years of war, and despite Israel’s many successes on the battlefield, Hamas can also claim a kind of…

If New Labour was Margaret Thatcher’s greatest achievement, then Reform UK is perhaps Tony Blair’s. Distaste for the three-time election…

When I meet Piers Morgan, he warns me he’s glued to the ‘moment in history’ happening on his TV screens…

One of the many problems with the internet is that it’s increasingly difficult to know if something has become ubiquitous…

Oh God, not that. That’s all we need, I thought, reading in a long account of Prince Andrew’s current travails…

Ready meals: the after-work time-saver, the dinner-party cheat – or a poor imitation of proper, cooked food? The proto-ready meal…

SEN and sensibility Sir: As a former teacher and long-standing chair of governors in a local school, I share Rosie…

In Silicon Valley there is a simple mantra that drives innovation: You Can Just Do Things. Wait for permission from…

In July, astronomers at the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System discovered an interstellar object racing through the solar system at…

Home Prince Andrew said he would no longer use his titles, including as Duke of York, or his honours; his…

Louvre incursion Jewellery once belonging to Napoleon’s family was sprung from the Louvre. In 1911 the ‘Mona Lisa’ was stolen…

Whatever Prince Andrew has done, the succession to our throne is secure. How envious the Roman emperor Augustus would have…

They moved, with a sort of nonchalant intent, up the aisle to make communion with their God; the men in…

Contrary to what I had expected, the Oxford Union president-elect, George Abaraonye, lost his vote of no confidence by a…

In a week where political attention was on espionage and anti-Semitism, the cri de coeur from one Treasury official was…

The great John O’Sullivan has a story about Enoch Powell which he keeps promising to put into print. Since he…

The Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, handsomely housed in London’s Bedford Square, is responsible for trade relations between the…

Imagine I were to begin this column by remarking that a woman preaching is like a dog walking on its…

‘View of Delft’ is not just a representation of some buildings seen across a stretch of dullish water but a vision of the celestial city, argues Andrew Graham-Dixon

The 1929 catastrophe and its aftermath have obvious parallels and connections with our own era, as Andrew Ross Sorkin illustrates

‘Get the drinks in, tell stories and make the day better than it was’, writes the novelist, as he delves deep into his friendships from childhood to the present

Few stirring stories compare with the six-week long Battle of Baku against the Ottomans – arguably the least remembered engagement of the first world war

In the final volume of The Book of Dust, Pan’s quest for Lyra’s lost imagination takes him east into another universe, while Lyra heads the same way looking for her daemon

The philandering author of the sublime The Snow Leopard spent a lifetime globe-hopping from the Amazonian jungle to the Siberian tundra at great cost to family life

Romance and family feuding Romeo and Juliet-style but on opioids unfold in 1990s Georgia, as civil war rages amid the power cuts

Kathleen Richardson reveals how certain men now seem to prefer the idea of ‘socially interactive companions’, first pioneered at MIT, to human girlfriends

A mass murderer will often show signs of despair and fury at being sidelined or laughed at before running amok, warns the forensic psychiatrist Paul E. Mullen

Mrs Warren’s Profession (in selected cinemas from October 23) is one of Shaw’s ‘Plays Unpleasant’ and it’s an extraordinary play…

Grade: B+ War, as we all know, is hell. But if it involves small squeaky annelids blowing each-other up with…

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere is a biopic of ‘the boss’ starring Jeremy Allen White. It is not cradle to…

Taking place every October in Regent’s Park, the Frieze fair is probably the biggest event in London’s art calendar. It…

In 1982, Pope John Paul II surprised a few people by beatifying Fra Angelico, the 15th-century Dominican friar from near…

I’m trying to think of things I’m less interested in than American football. The plant-based food section? Taking up my…

It is very hard to imagine the University of Oxford ever constructing a modernist building again. This is the significance…

Da Vinci’s Laundry is based on an art world rumour. In 2017, Leonardo’s ‘Salvator Mundi’ sold at Christie’s for $450…

English Touring Opera has begun its autumn season and the miracle isn’t so much that they’re touring at all these…

Watching the Mercury Music Prize on television last week, I remembered that Fionn Regan’s debut album, The End Of History,…

Damn you, politicians. Damn you for what you have done to this country you were supposed to serve and govern…

Will the Liberal party take a stand on net zero or not? (I am using net zero as a shorthand…

When you are old enough, you can measure your life in restaurants. I remember, for instance, when the Electric Diner…

The thoroughbred looked cross, with flared nostrils and a pinched expression, so I should have known what was about to…

Moments when a 24-carat superstar bursts on the scene are few and far between, but always something to cherish. And…

For Competition 3422 you were invited to submit a poem or passage on the theme of ‘daylight saving’. In a…

‘“I am not screwed,” replied the Caterpillar, solemnly. “Whisky and potass does not agree with everybody; but I am not…

A man called Gianluca and I mounted the steps to the Friedrichsbad in pensive silence. We hadn’t made eye contact…

The congratulatory messages started pouring in shortly after 5.30 p.m. on Monday. The Metropolitan Police had just issued a press…

Q. I was recently lent six books by a friend I see regularly for yoga. I was bemoaning the fact…

The Champions Day finale at Ascot gave us, as it should, the best race of the season. Thanks to weather…