In the run-up to the last federal election,  Anthony Albanese and Chris Bowen promised repeatedly that they would slash Australia’s…

In 2020, after 78 years of injustice, an 18-year-old in the Royal Australian Navy, Teddy Sheean, received a Victoria Cross…

It can’t get any worse

Preference trading corrupts Victorian politics

The West reaps what it sows

Stand aside for DeSantis

Cynicism beyond belief

A new film raises disturbing questions

Diplomacy deciphered

Never forget the base

Beijing’s secret role in the Ukraine war

It’s time to replace the Society of Authors

The Iranian regime is at war with its own children

Former environment secretary George Eustice on the PM’s deal dilemma

Opponents of Brexit have been given plenty of ammunition in recent weeks. Trade with the European Union has taken a…

Home The Supreme Court ruled that the Scottish government does not have the power to hold an independence referendum without…

Unlike some fair-weather fans I maintain a fairly constant interest in the workings of Fifa. Not because I especially care…

The Supreme Court decided rightly on Wednesday, rejecting the Scottish government’s claim that a second referendum on independence was not…

It’s not just the government that’s now beholden to forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility. Keir Starmer told the…

You have to admire their bravery, don’t you? The stoicism with which they put up a fight in the name…

I’ve been conducting a straw poll. Using incidental encounters with people who don’t follow politics closely, I’m learning what ordinary…

A colourful selection of news items this week seem to have a central thread. Elizabeth Holmes, founder of the Theranos…

Once the energy price cap expires in April, the Chancellor is apparently considering the levy of ‘social tariffs’ on the…

With 7,000 living languages now in the world, there are countless pitfalls for translators, as John Barton demonstrates

There is no single community, Harry Freedman stresses, but a multitude of voices ranging from the liberal to the ultra-orthodox

Mrs Yi is a folk healer in a remote Chinese village where the living commune with the dead and rocks relay warning messages

Lily Le Brun explores our shifting relationship with the shoreline through works by Vanessa Bell, Paul Nash, Bridget Riley and other modernists

There are hard-hitting thrillers from Margie Orford and Rijula Das – as well as an engaging mystery by Erri de Luca

When an Irish shipbuilder’s son was crowned king of a Caribbean rock in 1880, few would have guessed how long this eccentric monarchy would last

Witold Rybczynski’s majestic survey takes us from Brittany in 4,800 BC to Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Gehry

Moving stealthily through starlit fields and woods, John Lewis-Stempel marvels at nature’s many dark mysteries

The former lady in waiting is renowned for stoicism, but now digs deeper into her troubled marriage to Colin Tennant

Dickens’ A Christmas Carol has been with us for as long as we can remember. The story of the unlovely…

TV currently abounds with ‘I thought they were dead’ revival projects: series in which your favourite 1980s movie stars are…

A heroic Asian woman parachutes into occupied France to work for the resistance and help overthrow the Nazis. This sounds…

If you’re planning on seeing The Last Flight Home at the cinema, don’t make any plans for afterwards as you’ll…

The Koh-i-Noor in this Diamond Celebration of 60 years of the Friends of the Royal Opera House garnered the least…

Plus: it’s quite clear that MUNA are going to be huge What is it with Icelanders and mushrooms? Just weeks…

The catalogue to Making Modernism opens with an acknowledgment from the Royal Academy’s first female president, Rebecca Salter, that in…

Tanjil Rashid on the BBC at 100

The long march reaches its destination. Looking back, we can see that things seemingly happening overnight were part of that…

It’s that time of year again – when dictionaries around the world start announcing their ‘Word of the Year’. And…

In Competition No. 3276, you were invited to supply an extract from the memoir of a celebrity with some unfortunate…

I’ve heard two people in the past week make a jocular remark about things just growing ‘Like Topsy’. They were…

At the end of last century, when there were grounds for optimism about Russia’s future, an increasingly popular word expressed…

An American academic told me that during the 2016 presidential election nobody in academia believed there was the faintest chance…

I am incapable of throwing anything away in the kitchen. In my fridge, there must be at least half a…

Winter is finally upon us and I’m relying on my usual array of tablets and powders to ward off seasonal…

The government may for the moment have disbanded its circular firing squad, but racing has never shown a greater ability…

‘Notice from your vets’ said the email subject. I clicked and there was a letter telling me that my vet…

The sunny, growing month of November is the British expat’s Provençal dividend. Every morning the meridional sunshine comes in through…