For the first time in living memory, many conservative Australians are unenchanted by the choices facing them at the ballot…

No-one should have been surprised when Greens Senator Richard Di Natale was sprung last week for paying his three employees…

I dropped in the other day to the Sydney Writers’ Festival to hear Stan Grant deliver his autobiographical and sometimes…

Colin Dillon – Straight shooter   In times of shrill complaint, it is worth contemplating the life and career of…

April 2012. News Limited newshound Steve Lewis and I are hustling to a meeting at the ABC’s headquarters in Ultimo.…

How neo-Marxists are taking over our institutions

Turnbull & Co. will have only one choice if they fail to secure outright victory

Those who criticise Morrison’s super reforms are ill-informed (including this magazine)

The Safe Schools agenda is designed to bring down the traditional pillars of Australian society

In their EU campaign, the Chancellor and Prime Minister have put dirty tricks back at the heart of government

After six decades, and several writers better than Ian Fleming, this character is simply worn out

The French president is looking more hopeless than ever. But he has good reason to be plotting a run for re-election

For the increasing number of single women in their thirties, any dating idea can seem worth trying, no matter how bizarre

Having influence in a powerful European Union means giving it much more power over us

Mancunians used to laugh at the chippy folk in Liverpool. Now they match them for self-congratulation

There has never been a better time to make the pilgrimage to Keats’s grave

The decline in religious belief has become precipitous in recent years

Home The government published a Treasury analysis warning that an exit from the EU would plunge Britain into a year-long…

Also in her diary: Doctor difficulties, Liverpool’s grands projets, Kenneth Baker’s brainchild, further adventures with bats

Also in our Barometer column: children in care, football managers and mountain-climbing vegans

Plutarch’s advice to Greek rulers suggests he would understand today’s politics to a T

A modest proposal on food economy from 100 years ago

Not gay Sir: Ian Thompson in his review of Freedman’s book “ The Murderous History of Biblical Translations …” (Spectator…

Freed from normal election constraints, senior politicians are revealing what truly motives them

Also in The Spectator’s Notes: The EEA, the memoirs of Algy Cluff, and whatever happened to Tory modernisation?

Norbert Hofer, Alexander Van der Bellen, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are all part of the same phenomenon

Unless the Brexit campaign can capture something of the St Crispin’s Day spirit, it has no chance

We’re finally stopping giving our soldiers Lariam. Thank goodness for that

Also in Any Other Business: the return of the Greek crisis; the mystery of Noreena Hertz

We need a readable, authoritative popular guide to the latest developments in genetics. This, sadly, isn't it

The master of precision and the ebullient fabulist — though very different writers — are highly recommended reading

Adrian Tinniswood vividly captures the last days of gracious living in his jaunty history,The Long Weekend

Juan Villoro, Mexico’s foremost man of letters, captures the beautiful game to perfection

There’s no escape for Patricia Highsmith even in rural Suffolk, in Jill Dawson’s fictionalised vignette of the troubled novelist

Chris Herzfeld’s account of the orangutan Wattana, in need of constant mental stimulation, suggests that primates are really just like us

Charlotte Hobson’s promising debut novel explores the Russian avant-garde scene through the eyes of an English governess on the eve of the first world war

In a highly distinctive memoir, Betsy Lerner affectionately skewers her mother’s bridge-playing friends — with their impeccable reserve and luncheons of silvery fish

There’s only one true version of King Lear, says Sir Brian Vickers — and any Shakespeare scholar who disagrees can go hang

In his engrossing history of travellers to Mount Sinai, George Manginis describes the 19th-century theft of the priceless Codex Sinaiticus by Constantine Tischendorf

Oxford’s reverence for the Classics over the centuries is brilliantly celebrated by L.W.B Brockliss — who also imagines a glorious virtual future for the university

Stibbe’s teenage heroine tries to make sense of the eccentric inmates and a mountain of unpaid bills at Paradise Lodge

In 1988, Bradford Muslims didn’t apparently manage to incinerate Rushdie’s book — symbolic, says Kenneth Baker, of the endurance of the written word

In an age of advanced technologies, copying might not be a deviant variant, but the essential thing. But does that mean the beauty of Palmyra can be reproduced by robots?

‘Would Malcolm be turning in his grave? Would he hell!’

The music lacks memorability, the staging evokes a sigh and the performances are mildly uneven – but I wasn’t bored for a moment

Plus: a quirky, engaging, affectionate portrait of David Baddel’s mum and dad at the Menier Chocolate Factory

The new ten-storey Switch House is a strange object with an exposed-concrete interior, some promisingly large new galleries and an optimum belvedere

Because he’s utterly wrong about Jane Austen’s novella Lady Susan – and this delicious film adaptation, Love & Friendship, by Whit Stillman proves it

Jo Brand and Omid Djalili (of BBC4’s anti-austerity comedy Going Forward) should try watching Addicted to Sheep, which is so politically incorrect I’m surprised it hasn’t got an 18 certificate

Plus: Jane Goodall makes the ideal guest on Radio 3’s Private Passions with her undemanding music choices and chimp tales

The sixty-year-old institution has a large reputation built on minuscule achievements

Zurich’s loss was Melbourne’s gain in 2015 when Eoin Andersen became Concertmaster of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Having begun violin…

In Competition No. 2949 you were invited to submit a poem about sharing a drink with a famous writer. I…

It was fun in the 1950s but nowadays it’s nothing but sleaze and selling

Depending on the result of my recent blood test, my oncologist may halt my cancer hormone treatment

What with rows with neighbours and people going bump in the night – I’m not cut out for Airbnb

A knife? I didn’t know what a knife was. I’d never heard of such a thing

The beginning of the season is always tricky for punters, but there are helpful indicators if you know where to look

If you live in (or anywhere near) London, and you enjoy a good teams tournament, you could do no better…

To great surprise, the former world champion Garry Kasparov staged a brief comeback when he participated in a blitz tournament…

Black to play. This position is from So-Nakamura, Ultimate Blitz Challenge, Saint Louis 2016. How did Black make a key…

The unclued Across lights are of one linguistic kind and the unclued Down lights are of another, all of which…

The unclued lights can be preceded by GREEN which had to be shaded in green, as indicated in the solution…

At Sciences Po in Paris, I was listened to with polite amusement, but almost no one took the threat of Brexit seriously

Fewer Tests, conferences for the counties, and inter-city T20s full of razzle-dazzle

Plus: coming up against wedding guests’ chronic flakiness; the man who stayed too long

But the Keeper’s House is nonetheless my kind of place

I thought this one was dead. It’s alive and infesting trade magazines