Age, clearly, has not withered the Rolling Stones. With the average age of the remaining four members of the ‘greatest…

There are now another 156 reasons for keeping our constitutional monarchy, for that is the number of leading barristers who…

I first came across Neville Wran back in January 1946. Just out of school but not yet enrolled in Sydney…

It’s not often you have a foretaste of paradise. Recently I spent a month in Europe — the UK, Ireland,…

I am a person of Aboriginal descent, and I have a strong personal view on section 18C of the Racial…

Through its coal-digging antics, Oz has made itself the midwife of a new era of progress around the world

Why is a public broadcaster allowed to use tax dollarsto promote a commercial success like Peppa Pig?

The visiting Royals are more like film stars than royalty, following the template set by the Duke’s late mother

If he wins the next election, Ed Miliband is set to unleash a radical Old Labour agenda

The political pack behind Ed’s campaign for No. 10

The American political establishment looks increasingly like an oligarchy

Our strange fascination with tunnels, bunkers, and all things underground

The many blessings of Christianity

Plus: The memory of Jeffrey Bernard, and the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide

The country behind the wall

Why the unionists need to make the wider, more emotional case for saving Britain

Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, appeared in public with George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer — the first…

Plus: The British actors who’ve mastered an American accent, and the basements of Belgravia

Why the Romans would have applauded Putin

Aids is still deadly Sir: Dr Pemberton (‘Life after Aids’, 19 April) subscribes to the now prevalent view that we have…

Politicians seem incapable of making a positive argument for anything

He had the opportunity – and for that matter, so did Cyril Smith

The egos at the club are off the scale

Cyberchondria has infected the US, and now it’s over here, too

Right-wing creatives have much to gain from internet crowdfunding

But it won’t do him any favours with the voters

A review of Updike, by Adam Begley. John Updike was very happy to recycle his own experiences in his fiction

A review of Requisitioned: The British Country House in the Second World War by John Martin Robinson

From dystopian thrillers to childhood horrors and archaeological discoveries; some of the latest crime fiction releases

A review of Tiny Stations, by Dixe Wills – a travelogue that takes in the 38 remaining request stops on the British railways

Shame and the Captives, by Thomas Keneally, is not a perfect novel, but this fictional account of escapee Japanese POWs is gripping nonetheless

A review of The Ballad of a Small Player, by Lawrence Osborne. An insight into a gambler’s life of soulless grind

In The Gardens of the British Working Class, Margaret Willes follows the determined struggle of the poor to grow flowers

In 2008, Bob Carr was on an ABC panel show, pontificating about the wisdom of decisions of the US Supreme…

Batman is 75. Peter Hoskin considers the septuagenarian’s enduring appeal

Opéra de Lyon are spreading thecomposer’s reputation

A journey around the palaces of Hanover and London

His later works involve a complete change of direction

Plus: Oh My Sweet Land at the Young Vic

This film is wholly unfunny, and also wholly reprehensible

But they’re not entirely to blame for expensive housing

And why she should have taken part in Bridget Kendall’s The Forum

The enfant terrible of fashion

And why I’m not about to read Arianna Huffington’s book

The astonishing beauty of Indian road-menders

How many things can possibly go wrong with a car?

The strange demise of British cookery

The tick-tock of being followed around in Somalia

It’s no coincidence that many card players excel at both bridge and poker. The poker legend Gus Hansen plays a…

While Viswanathan Anand, the former world champion, has been qualifying for a revenge match for the world title, Magnus Carlsen,…

White to play. This is a variation from Carlsen-Leitao, Brazil 2014. White has a big attack on the kingside which…

In Competition No. 2844 you were invited to provide an extract from either a gripping thriller or a bodice-ripping romance…

Nine unclued lights are linked in three different ways (three lights to each) to a tenth, which solvers should highlight.…

The perimeter is occupied by seven SANDPIPERS.   First prize Tim Hanks, Douglas, Isle of Man Runners-up Hilda Ball, Belfast;…

David Cameron is right — the evidence is overwhelming

How the best inventions are the result of evolution

She’s planning a 16th birthday party while her parents are away

Why we need a new literary award: the antisocial book of the year

And what has it to do with the Alfred Jewel?