One in three Australian school children, according to the latest Naplan results, are falling well behind in literacy and numeracy.…

A fascinating event occurred at the ALP national conference last weekend. No, it was not that the left wing dutifully…

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Will Albanese accuse Dutton of breaking nation’s heart?

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Is the Church of England giving up on Sunday worship?

Trump no longer needs the TV networks

Trans women shouldn’t be allowed to play in women’s chess matches

An investigation into the war’s first aid crisis

No one who has paid any attention to NHS scandals over the past few decades should be at all surprised…

I wish I could be like actors and pretend to be bored by press junkets, but the truth is I…

Next Tuesday, London’s Ulez scheme will be expanded. A new network of cameras filming the traffic movements of millions of…

Another week, another whitewash. The latest chunk of culture to be painted out of existence is ‘Fat Bottomed Girls’, Queen’s…

The award for the funniest joke at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe was won by Lorna Rose Treen, with this: ‘I…

You know the Conservative party is in trouble when it does not dare use its name on leaflets. Instead, it…

Who is Perry Johnson? It is a question not many American voters can answer. He has a grand total of…

Were I to overcome a lifelong scepticism about the healing powers of talk therapy, I imagine languishing on a psychiatrist’s…

Promising his investors dazzling riches with his tale of hidden Ghanaian gold, the charismatic John Ackah Blay-Miezah pulled off one of the most brazen scams of the past century

The power of the medieval papacy resembled that of the Holy Roman Emperor – and like the first Roman emperors, popes attracted envy, scandal and violent retribution

John Niven had to fight hard to discover why his suicidal brother was left alone and unmonitored in an Ayrshire hospital, with fatal consequences

Despite its democratic ideals and artistic creativity, 1920s Germany lacked both the flexibility and social cohesion necessary for functional politics, says Frank McDonough

When phylloxera destroys the vines on the Aoelian island of ‘S’, the inhabitants, forced to emigrate, blame the recently established prison colony

‘Some days I feel like I’m drowning,’ admits Helen Rebanks, caught between cooking, housework, admin, tagging lambs and the school run at the Lake District family farm

Now established in Cambridge, John Cromer embarks on a whirlwind of small adventures, testing our patience, if not our sympathy, with his extensive digressions

Fuchsia Dunlop enjoys a rich variety of dishes throughout China, including drunken hairy crabs, crisp pig’s ears, giant carp’s tails and delicate ducks’ tongues

Lucy Fulford never fully explains how this community was so easily scapegoated, nor why Idi Amin’s decree caused such jubilation across East Africa at the time

England’s final, agonising defeat in the Hundred Years War brings Jonathan Sumption’s monumental history to a close. David Crane salutes 43 years of research and writing

Isn’t it weird to hear reports of eminent curators at the British Museum leaving because various priceless artworks (often of…

A little-known fact about the Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument, the first sampling synthesiser, introduced in 1979, is that it incorporated…

Lucy Prebble belongs to the posse of scribblers responsible for the HBO hit, Succession. Perhaps in honour of this distinction,…

Scrapper is a film about a working-class kid who, after her mother dies, has to look after herself. I know…

In the year 2023, the Neo-Roman Empire was at the height of its powers. A potentially restive populace was kept…

I love Green Man. The smallish festival is the second most beautiful site I’ve ever visited (after G Fest, which…

Aix is an odd place. It should be charming, with its dishevelled squares, Busby Berkeley-esque fountains, pretty ochres and pinks.…

Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Richard Lewis talks to Ben Lazarus about addiction, his Parkinson’s diagnosis – and his friendship with Larry David

Holding dual Australian and UK citizenship is only problematic when both countries reach the final rounds of a major sporting…

The power (and the usefulness) of language is that it gives us names for ideas. And a name is like…

We were talking bulls. A friend of mine, Alexander Fiske-Harrison, is a remarkable character who can claim at least two…

When the nine equine athletes involved in the seven-furlong contest for Newbury’s Saturday highlight, the Group Two BetVictor Hungerford Stakes,…

My own debanking story concerns a card rather than a bank account. Not the same degree of inconvenience as Nigel…

According to the ancient proverb, if you sit by the river for long enough you will see the body of…

We were about to exchange contracts when I got a call from the estate agent to tell me that another…

Coronis Trafficking in enchantment, I sailed west to Coronis, the most perfect private isle on this planet. At times I…