In this week’s issue, we are delighted to hear from Gina Rinehart on the importance of mining to not only…

The single most important question about the Voice

From climate to Covid, our freedoms are being wiped out

Now the left is coming after our church hospitals

Where’s the Snowy rescue plan?

The South Australian Liberals need to choose wisely

Orwell wouldn’t be surprised

The global consequences of the renewable drive will complicate, even retard, the switch

Australia must stop demonising mining

Durham exposes the Evil Eye of Sauron

The latest Durham report must be as crucial a turning point as the first

Has the counter-offensive been overhyped?

Ukraine cannot afford to play it safe

His opponents need to prove him wrong on Ukraine

The teachers putting principles before children

The curious business of fertility

We’ll miss you, Jeremy

Modestly brilliant, dedicatedly hedonistic — Jeremy Clarke was a complete one-off

‘There’s a lot of societal issues in Ely,’ said an anonymous caller to BBC Radio Wales the morning after the…

Zero ambition Sir: How extraordinary that Ross Clark (‘Carbon fixation’, 20 May) can look at the cut-throat competition to capture…

When the Prime Minister first assembled his cabinet, the most controversial appointment was Suella Braverman as Home Secretary. She had…

Iam on the horns of a dilemma, I am in a moral quandary. I had intended to spend this morning…

On the smooth marble concourse by the exit doors at Heathrow Airport I met my first cleaning robot. It was…

Some people seem to make a career of being ashamed (or at least claiming to be ashamed) of their country.…

D.J. Taylor explores how the fracture between the person Orwell wanted to be and the person he seemed to be runs through his life and work

Elsa, a concert pianist, is starting to panic. Her adoptive father is dying, and she keeps meeting her doppleganger, fuelling an obsession with her origins

Elizabeth Day recognises that real friends need nurturing, and spreading yourself too thinly doesn’t help anyone

Over the course of one midsummer’s day, Mark Cocker presents a startling picture of the breeding, feeding, fledging and migrating habits of these little dynamos of life

Football hooliganism led to a shocking number of deaths, as did the many infrastructure disasters caused by negligence, while riots and street fighting were endemic

Scandal engulfs a female rector when her chief bellringer is accused of child-molesting and paintings in the parish church are judged sacrilegious

A police detective inherits a country estate and looks forward to early retirement, but is forced back into action when human bones surface at a village treasure hunt

Though many of her distinguished forebears campaigned vigorously against privilege and conservative elitism, they were still too posh for Toynbee’s comfort

As the world’s thermometer, the ocean keeps everything in balance, but carbon emissions and our use of it as a dumping ground is threatening its life, says Helen Czerski

Exiled from Russia and often denigrated in America, Rachmaninoff lived in a fug of unbearable, impenetrable sadness, says Paul Kildea

It’s strange the world of classics and demi-classics and popular classics we inhabit. Right at the moment there’s the chance…

This month I’ve been venturing into the further reaches of modern dance – obscure territory where I don’t feel particularly…

Margaret Mitchell on the ethics of museums of anatomical specimens

Back once more to our favourite unhappy place: the dystopian future. And yet again it seems that the authorities have…

Scheduling open-air concerts in mid-May in northern Europe is a triumph of hope over experience. I last spent time with…

One so often hears about famous people who are horrible when they think no one important is looking – barking…

Brokeback Mountain, a play with music, opens in a scruffy bedroom where a snowy-haired tramp finds a lumberjack’s shirt and…

When I went into the Sisu screening I knew only that it was a Finnish film, so was expecting an…

Exiting Peckham Rye station, you’re not aware of it, but standing on the platform you can see a mansard roof…

Michael Hann on the most enduring of pop subcultures

South of Sydney there is a road which winds its way from the glistening emerald waters of the Pacific Ocean,…

Of all the myriad ways of preserving, confit always strikes me as wonderfully improbable. The ability to preserve meat just…

2603 has the prime factors 19 x 137 which further decompose into (102 – 92) x (42 + 112). Therefore…

In Competition No. 3300, you were invited to describe in verse a meal of your choice with a well-known poet,…

The Pilchard Inn sits at the entrance to Burgh Island, a minute tidal island off the coast of south Devon.…

It’s not clear how many readers of this journal will be affected, but anyone planning a stag weekend in Prague…

I have a confession to make: I’m a sitzpinkler. That’s the German word for men who sit down when they…

A bay mare was standing over a foal curled up sleeping at her feet. Yawning and struggling to keep her…

He bore his death sentence more gracefully than most heroes I’ve read about. As the end approached, his columns showed…