For those who prefer their politics to be pink and their environmentalism deep green, the re-election of Barnaby Joyce as…

One of my beefs about the ABC is how the Liberal party has stood by and allowed it to become…

After 404 days in solitary as a guest of Her Majesty, I was loath to spend a fortnight in institutional…

Green anger as G7 goes easy on Australian emissions

Underachievers of the medical profession are ruining the country

Judicial activists invented the right to invalidate laws

Big Tech and Big Government’s cosy censorship

Labour is remaking New Zealand in its own image

Melburnians are on the verge of nervous breakdown

Our out-of-control public broadcaster needs a new role

Why is modern architecture so ugly?

How the Lancet lost our trust

Last month, the Pride flag was updated by the Intersex Equality Rights UK campaign group — the simple rainbow was…

Understanding Japan is a life’s work

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What the rise of Nooshi Dadgostar reveals about Europe’s collapsing centre

New-build developers are acting like a cartel

Politicians made the rules – so they know how to bend them

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Royal waves Does any other country have a royal yacht? — The Queen of Denmark uses HDMY Dannebrog, a 260ft…

Under what circumstances can a government restrict the liberty of the people? An example was given last year: in a…

The good doctors Sir: Not all GPs are currently ‘Dr No’ (12 June). I phoned my surgery at 9.30 the…

The EU has regularly been likened to the Roman Empire. But its current direction suggests that the Athenian Empire (478-404…

I’ve always maintained I go to Fermanagh for sanity, and after the past few months, I need a return to…

I think Keir’s had it. This may not discomfort you terribly, I know. Still less the fact that Labour will…

The official review into the Manchester Arena bombing was published this week. Four years after 22 mainly young people were…

Covid restrictions are meant to end on 19 July. But parliament will not return to normal until September. The Commons…

The late Sir Ken Morrison — founder of the eponymous supermarket chain that’s the latest UK target for US private…

I’m used to waiting for the Catholic church to make sense. I’m a convert to Catholicism, and Catholic ideas sometimes…

It was always an inherently implausible accusation: that Australia’s most senior Catholic prelate had sexually assaulted choir boys after Mass…

Lendal Press has found a brilliant novelist in Matt Cook: funny, shrewd, satirical, disturbingly and entertainingly analytical in his psychology…

‘There is no end to influence,’ says Harold Bloom in his seminal 1973 work, The Anxiety of Influence — and…

We are experiencing a boom of popular books on Greek mythology: Stephen Fry’s Mythos; Natalie Haynes’s Pandora’s Jar; Liv Albert’s…

Orgies! Gangsters! Drugs! Spies! Scandals! This biography promises much but I’m not sure it actually delivers, or not in any…

I hated reading this book. Not only was it objectively upsetting, as any book describing monkey vivisection would be (I…

Ever since Leonora Carrington, the last of the Surrealists, died in 2011, having made it to her 94th year with…

A new biography of William Hogarth pays dutiful homage to his satirical genius but does not challenge its predecessors, writes Philip Hensher

It’s funny to reflect how the performing arts, theatre in particular, are a lot stronger when they have a literary…

Recent decades have seen the opening or upgrading of numerous performing arts centres throughout regional Australia enabling the development of…

Nina Hamnett’s art has long been overshadowed by her wild, hedonistic life, but that is changing, says Hermione Eyre — and about time

Death of a Black Man is a little-known script from the 1970s written by Alfred Fagon who suffered a fatal…

There was no printed programme for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s first concert under its music director designate Domingo Hindoyan.…

I was at a party the other day when who should accost me but Jeremy Clarkson. There were lots more…

I’ve given up comfort food. I’m trying to shift lockdown pounds that have left me with the physique of the…

Our hosts are Lauren and Drew and they want to talk about Karl Ove Knausgaard. Or rather, they want to…

At the time Supernova went into production one headline read: ‘What did we do to deserve a love story starring…

Help! If I’m too kind to GB News, my bosses at LBC will be cross as the channel nicked their…

Every time a dog cocks its leg to urinate on the Federation Pavilion in Centennial Park, Sydney, a terminally ill…

A report in the Australian said ‘anti-Semitic’ hate crimes are on the rise in America – and the FBI and…

Millions of people would see losing to Anand as a privilege rather than a disgrace. So it is simply astonishing…

In Competition No. 3204, you were invited to supply a rondeau with a summery theme. The best-known English rondeau is…

White to play. Gukesh–Yip, Gelfand Challenge, June 2021. White has strong pressure on the f-file, but which move forces a…

New York I hope this is my last week in the Bagel. I plan to fly first to Switzerland and…

There are many facets to Royal Ascot’s appeal. For some it is glamour, style and opulence. For some it is…

Clockwise round the grid from 34 run the answers (6,6,5, 11,4,3,7,4) (one hyphened) to eight riddles followed by the riddler’s…

Six years ago I wrote here about critique, as a noun or verb, and things have gone from bad to…

Harry Potter is a fictional orphan locked in a cupboard by his aunt and uncle, after which he discovers a…

Q. We have old friends who live in the northern hinterlands and have a property in Provence where they normally…

The question is surely destined to become a pub quiz staple: ‘Who moved a bottle 18 inches across a table…

‘Whatever you do, don’t call them snowflakes,’ Caroline said the last time I spoke to Oxford students. ‘That’s not a…

Exciting news from my father’s cousin in Canada. ‘You asked about our grandfather, there is much to tell,’ he writes.…

The perimeter quote is from ‘Ode to the West Wind’. The remaining unclued lights were the east wind (24A), south…

On the whole, I’ve enjoyed playing bridge from the comfort of home during lockdown. One regrettable outcome, however, is that…