Yet again, the Prime Minister has been ensnared by the Left’s web of deceit and fallen prey to the most…

We are all in this together, so I have been agonising over what more I can do to get our…

The Liberal party can’t just support the rule of law when it comes to one of their own

Are we finally heading back to the old normal?

Will the Libs ever remember who ‘brung them to the dance’?

Two revolutionaries more interested in royalties than royal duties

The PM’s unnatural disaster

Double standards that ignore biological truths

Unfortunately, it’s reality that is the biggest threat to young women

It’s like Sunrise without the cow

Election fraud will only be encouraged with President Biden’s ‘For the People Act’

For teenagers, the battle of the sexes has never been so complicated

Can Britain’s new military policy end decades of pretence?

The last children of the Raj

The fake fight against ‘gay therapy’

The last time I drank mead was 7 April 1978. It was my 18th birthday and —unforgettably — it was…

The historic failures of Ursula von der Leyen

The agony of literary envy

Why privileged protestors flock to Bristol

Europe’s vaccine meltdown

The word of God Sir: Douglas Murray complains that the C of E has embraced the ‘new religion’ of anti-racism…

During the referendum campaign five years ago, the pro-Brexit side argued that by freeing ourselves from the EU’s native protectionism…

Home The nation was surprised to learn that from 29 March there would be a dearth of vaccine for a…

Spring Cannot Be Cancelled arrives on the doorstep. It is a gloriously illustrated book by Martin Gayford about his conversations…

Identity politics empowers people to make all sorts of claims, not because they are true but because it makes them…

A long way from home A walrus turned up off the Pembrokeshire coast, thousands of miles south of its normal…

‘If anybody can write an interesting column about buses, Matthew,’ the then comment editor on the Times told me decades…

As the former editor of a Sunday newspaper, I know their front pages can be rather confected. There is sometimes…

Distracted by vaccine warfare, for once the British haven’t leapt onto America’s latest bandwagon of fake self-excoriation. Following last week’s…

Just as the auto industry embraces the electric future I wrote about last month, it hits a new crisis: a…

We commemorated one year of lockdown by sacrificing a goat to the Highly Revered Virus Deity on a hastily assembled…

A year ago this week Alex Salmond was acquitted on all 13 charges in his sexual assault trial. In normal…

We have all become Paul Kagame’s useful idiots, says Nicholas Shakespeare

Benjamin ‘Bugsy’ Siegel was about as meta-gangsterish as a real life gangster could get. Born in the slums of Manhattan’s…

Hella Pick is one of that vanishing generation of Jewish refugees who arrived in Britain on the eve of the…

This is such a great idea: a book with one short essay per punctuation mark or typographical symbol. Of course,…

This is a novel about ‘mommy issues’. Rachel is a Reform Jew, ‘more Chanel bag Jew than Torah Jew’, and…

Ewan Morrison is an intellectually nimble writer with a penchant for provocation. His work has included the novels, Distance, Ménage…

It was the 13th-century wall of a ruined Cistercian nunnery at the far end of her garden in Norfolk that…

It’s a bit amazing that Hamilton is opening in Sydney on 27 March. Only a few months ago it was…

If you go to Canberra to see the NGA’s exhibition Botticelli to Van Gogh and are mildly disappointed, your journey…

Stuart Jeffries on the dark history of dance marathons

One of the unforeseen consequences of the rise of streaming was a change in the very structure of the pop…

When a drama begins with news of a ‘Chis handler’ receiving ‘intel graded A1 on the matrix’ that causes a…

The promise of the internet was supposed to be thus: you could be your own bizarre, inappropriate self, and you…

Two millennia ago, in the outer reaches of the empire, the Romans performed a routine execution of a Galilean rebel.…

Ammonite is writer-director Francis Lee’s second film after God’s Own Country, one of the best films of 2017, and possibly…

BKLYN — The Musical gives itself a headache for no reason. What does ‘BKLYN’ mean? Perhaps it’s a random jumble…

I’m back from Sydney and just coming out of my drunken stupor – a 12-hour bender at a resuscitated Qantas…

The word ‘independent’ has been part of the English language since 1612. So how can anyone be confused about its…

I was walking with our one-year-old cavapoochon on the way back from the baker’s in Acton on Sunday morning when…

Q. A dear friend of long-standing has a propensity to make friends of our friends — people she has first…

Applying for a French bank account is like trying for a permit to open a Christian bookshop in North Korea.…

The rope riders came down the driveway slowly, their horses veering this way and that, side to side, forwards a…

‘Think yourself lucky,’ said my husband when I told him about poor John Stuart Mill’s mother, who had nine children…

A year of lockdowns has certainly passed slowly. But there are topics for thought. One disappointment has been the Church…

The play was The Winter’s Tale by Shakespeare. The perimetric dramatis personae are MAMILLIUS, LEONTES, FLORIZEL, DORCAS, MOPSA, HERMIONE and…

Gstaad I have never experienced such a long, continuous blizzard, and I’ve been coming here for 63 years. The ski…

The unclued lights, including three proper nouns (two of two words), consist of three groups of three words of a…

In Competition No. 3191 you were invited to submit a Shakespearean soliloquy reflecting on the news that the Bard has…

Black to play… and lose! Aronian–Van Foreest, March 2021. Van Foreest’s next move didn’t blunder his queen but was nonetheless…

The Young Chelsea Knock Out is a terrific tournament, and the best thing about it is that the winners get…

Have you ever played the Frankenstein-Dracula variation? The Monkey’s Bum? The Nescafé Frappé Attack? These are all real chess openings,…

I am writing with a mild pain in one arm, having received my first dose of the Oxford vaccine yesterday…