The term ‘tipping point’ is much over-used, especially by the doomsday alarmist climate cult, to the degree where people have…

Has Labor finally become the natural party of government? This would once have seemed an absurd question to someone of…

Conservatives must fight to win

And the worst opposition ever

The legal profession must not shirk its responsibility to prevent harm

But nothing can stop Bowen’s train wreck

What voters really think about climate change

Bad economics is making mendicants of us all

No Jews, no news

Do we really need to defend free speech ‘to the death’?

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When France played Algeria in their national stadium, the Stade de France, in 2001, the French player Thierry Henry said…

Earlier this month, in Haiti’s tatterdemalion capital of Port-au-Prince, armed gangs burned down the Hotel Oloffson. As news of the…

The news that the Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, will begin a £60 million, five-year renovation in…

I’m lying on a sun lounger in Monte Carlo and there are so many women with extended blonde hair, hornet-stung…

What has happened to Britain’s rivers isn’t a mistake. The fact that serious pollution is up 60 per cent on…

A close associate of Nigel Farage received phone calls from three civil servants in the past week, asking how they…

In 1969, one of the great acts of sportsmanship occurred at Royal Birkdale golf club in Southport, when the Ryder…

Helping Afghan refugees escape Taliban retribution has not proved easy; ensuring their integration into their host countries more challenging still.…

The Telegraph reports that Attorney General Lord Hermer has ‘been accused of asserting the primacy of human rights law over…

Coined terms Liz Williams, a Reform UK council candidate in May’s local elections, began a High Court action trying to…

For the recent heatwave, it was my mission to escape our little Wiltshire cottage, where it hit 35°C. It has…

Home Six people were arrested during a protest by 1,000 outside the Bell hotel in Epping, Essex, which houses asylum…

The children of Gaza are enduring horrendous suffering. The control of aid has been restricted. Innocent lives have been set…

The Bank’s breakdown Sir: Your cover story with its attack on Andrew Bailey (‘Broke Britain’, 19 July) tells only half…

In Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, Humpty-Dumpty tells Alice: ‘When I use a word, it means just what I choose…

The weekend’s torrential Yorkshire rain amid a hosepipe ban offered a handy metaphor for the chaos that has befallen the…

Bill Clinton published another memoir last year, entitled Citizen, and I take it that everyone read the book the minute…

If I had been given the vote at the age of 16, I would have put my cross beside the…

Behind the latest push for recognition of a Palestinian state – even though there is no agreement of what it…

Before Beeching’s cuts, hordes of British holiday-makers rushed by train to the coast every summer – from ‘bracing’ Scarborough to the ‘Devon Rivera’

The second world war features in haunting thrillers by Carlo Lucarelli and Andrew Taylor. Also reviewed: A Sting in the Tale, by Mark Ezra; and Kane, by Graham Hurley

As a content moderator of the internet, thirtysomething Girlie is accustomed to stomach-churning videos. But how will she fare in the VR theme park sector?

Clumsy, self-regarding sequels to Trainspotting simply won’t work any more

Beards, moustaches, whiskers, free-flowing curls or cropped coifs – all were signifiers of morality, trustworthiness or political ideology

Three wealthy Belfast women join forces to defend their sons accused of sexual assault – regardless of rights and wrongs

His capricious father’s will leaves a young English doctor needing to find a wife within two days and seven hours of his return home from revolutionary France

Successful initiatives during the Carter presidency regarding the USSR, China and Afghanistan were counterbalanced by a serious misreading of the situation in Iran

A prime example – the murder of the SS officer Reinhard Heydrich in 1942 – may have been a technical success for SOE, but brutal reprisals made it an operational disaster

How strange it is to be transported back to some version of the world of Lena Dunham. Remember Girls, that…

The Estate begins with a typical NHS story. An elderly Sikh arrives in A&E after a six-hour wait for an…

The Australian twins Danny and Michael Philippou started off as YouTubers known for their comically violent shorts – Ronald McDonald…

It’s been a good week for fans of TV dramas that are set partly in Syria, feature poetry-lovers confronting extreme…

Grade: B+ There’s quite a lot to dislike about Wet Leg, even aside from their stupid name. The entirety of…

‘There is good music, bad music, and music by Ambroise Thomas,’ said Emmanuel Chabrier, but then, Chabrier said a lot…

The highs of Stevie Wonder’s Hyde Park show were magnificently high. The vast band were fully clicked into that syncopated,…

Last month, I got the train down to Margate to interview the Egyptian-Armenian artist Anna Boghiguian (b. 1946), whose exhibition…

The cover painting for The Specialist, a new podcast from Sotheby’s, looks like a scene from Mad Men. The people…

On 17 June 1872, Johann Strauss II conducted the biggest concert of his life. The city was Boston, USA, and…

Nobody in the current federal government worked harder than Penny Wong to thaw the freeze in Sino-Australian relations caused by…

The recent severe weather events on the east coast were labelled (by our official Weather Bureau) as a ‘bomb cyclone’…

I was surprised to read a report by Sunder Katwala’s thinktank British Future saying the UK is a ‘powder keg’…

Q. We have a neighbour who always overfills my glass. I beg her not to. Even if I commit the…

In my last article, I introduced you to the ‘paceometer’, which shows how the relationship between an extra unit of…

England is now and history. The other day, in the Weald of Kent, now was England and pleasure. We were…

Trapped in the middle seat next to a Dublin businessman in the window seat, I was subjected to a monologue…

The courtship rituals of the Treasury and the Office for Budget Responsibility last ten weeks. The consummation is a fiscal…

I am, for the most part, a rule follower and a people pleaser. It’s one of the reasons I love…

Dante’s Beach, Ravenna All seven chickens we recently acquired are now laying eggs – except the one called Giovanna, which…

For Competition 3409 you were invited to submit parental advice courtesy of famous writers. Kurt Vonnegut’s father’s advice to his…