A hurried visit by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to Alice Springs this week highlights everything that is wrong with his…

  (From a source)   Here at Autocracies United, I can report that we had a bumper year in 2022.…

New Zealand’s Prime Minister abandons Labour’s sinking ship

We need to unite as Australians not divide on racial grounds

Respect for empirical evidence has been undermined

Who dares speak the truth?

Three years of Covid crimes

The ability to reform is vital to survival

Since the PM didn’t go to the WEF, the WEF came to the PM

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When Rishi Sunak stood on the steps of Downing Street to give his first speech as Prime Minister, he had…

For the first time since the Ice Age, wild bison are roaming Britain

When Keir Starmer won the Labour leadership in 2020, following the party’s worst election defeat since 1935, many people shook…

Ukraine’s top soldier, General Valery Zaluzhny, has said that if he is to launch a successful counter-offensive, the West will…

The Church and the vexed question of gay marriage

The sad decline of drunkenness

Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai, 21, an Afghan convicted this week of murdering a man in Bournemouth last year, had previously murdered two…

Preserve us The British Museum said it would stop referring to ‘mummies’ and call them ‘mummified persons’ instead, out of…

If Britain’s great flaw is the class system, America’s might be its obsession with classifying official information. There’s a reason…

Aretha Franklin’s 1967 hit ‘(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman’ should be removed from the music streaming network…

I awoke in the small hours last week and began worrying about the Ukraine war. A friend had earlier taken…

Hockey is one of those games, like lacrosse, that alters as it crosses the Atlantic. In Britain, if a man…

The University of Washington technology department has banned the word ‘housekeeping’. Not because the ‘problematic’ noun is overtly ist (ableist,…

The world-class musician describes his early desire to shock, his delight in the sensual, his life-changing relationship with Catholicism and, finally, his debut at Carnegie Hall

A group of privileged teenagers at Buckley School, Los Angeles medicate themselves on champagne, cocaine and mindless sex – until something awful happens

The flamboyant hostess and ‘psychic’ interior decorator does seem like a comic creation – but she was real enough, and perhaps madder than Ludwig Bemelmans lets on

The lovable rounded character of The Canterbury Tales has been ridiculed over the centuries for her sexual appetites, completely subverting Chaucer’s focus

Thackeray’s amoral schemer is recast as a ruthless tabloid journalist, splashing gossip, hacking phones and pursuing personal vendettas

Shocked by the authoritarianism of Cuba and the USSR, the Peruvian writer turned his back on communism in the 1960s, influenced by seven liberal European thinkers

He certainly had delusions of grandeur, but his ambition to educate a people newly emerged from slavery showed a true visionary spirit

A festive gathering in the depths of rural France is fatally disrupted by a trio of sinister strangers

The initial reluctance of Britain, France, Poland and the US to share intelligence allowed the Nazis to hone their deception skills to early advantage

Justin Marozzi celebrates the medieval naturalist Zakariyya Qazwini and his breathtaking bid to capture the marvels of creation

It’s a strange period of relaxation, isn’t it? The post-Christmas and New Year period in the lead up to Australia…

The Unfriend is a smart new family comedy which opens on the sunlit deck of a cruise ship. Peter and…

The great country singer George Jones was famed not just for his voice, but also for his drinking. Once, deprived…

For around a decade now, Grayson Perry has been making reliably thoughtful and entertaining documentary series about such things as…

‘We hope you enjoy the performance,’ announced the Tannoy before the lights went down for How did we get here?…

‘Spain must be much more interesting than Liverpool,’ decided the 12-year-old Archer M. Huntington after buying a book on Spanish…

There can’t be anyone anywhere who hasn’t somehow been touched by a Steven Spielberg film. Some of us, for example,…

Daniel Barenboim was supposed to perform with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra earlier this month. His recent health concerns made…

Frank Lawton talks to Maurizio De Luca, former chief restorer at the Vatican, about the pitfalls of his profession

What white Anglo male over the age of 50 can honestly say they’ve never worn a Nazi uniform? When I…

The Merriam-Webster dictionary people tell me that one of the most looked-up words on their website recently has been ‘archnemesis’…

I have just finished a sojourn with a curious twist. Readers of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain will remember Hans…

The recent debate around ‘levelling up’ may be missing something. I would argue that there is another way to consider…

Two and a half years ago, I wrote a column about how I’d started sleeping in my garden office. No,…

‘No way am I having it now,’ said a friend, as she insisted on discussing the latest scare stories. And…

I woke up in the wake-up room (salle de réveil). The clock on the wall said half past ten. I’d…