Well, here we go! Buckle yourselves in tightly because it’s going to be quite the ride. After nine years of…

Watching results on Saturday night, my chief thought was less ‘Who’s going to win?’ than, rather, ‘Thank God that’s over.’…

Simon Birmingham belongs with the Teals

Does Albo’s mandate to ‘change Australia’ stand up?

Economic analysis has been replaced by emotion

Why we lost Kooyong

Western mainstream media is a joke

China’s poisoned maritime spear

The Teals mop up

Tainted by opportunism

Taiwan is learning valuable lessons from Ukraine

‘Sides to middle’, that’s the cry. When your foot goes through the flat sheet in the night, there’s only one…

As oil prices surge, Putin’s billions are soaring

The former head of MI6 on where Russia has gone wrong – and what happens next

Lithuania’s foreign minister on Ukraine, Taiwan and the principle of sovereignty

Restaurant prices are no longer worth it

Farmers and rewilders must discover their shared purpose

Why I’ve spent £68,500 on a tank

A slip of the tongue George W. Bush condemned a political system where one man could wage a ‘brutal and…

An ability to survive narrow scrapes has been one of Boris Johnson’s defining qualities. The pictures of Downing Street’s lockdown…

Given Putin’s less than triumphant operation in Chechnya, where the Russian army suffered catastrophic losses, it is hardly surprising that…

I met a Canadian couple for lunch in Edinburgh. They were from Vancouver – he a judge, she an opera…

Applying myself Sir: It was interesting to read David Abulafia’s rather damning critique of the Oxbridge admissions process (‘Who’s out’,…

Home Sue Gray starched and ironed her report for publication after the Metropolitan Police wound up its own enquiries into…

Boris Johnson has been plunged back into the mire of partygate. The publication of a photograph of Johnson raising a…

On my 2 p.m. arrival for a week-long work trip to South Africa a fortnight ago, an immigration agent flapped…

I hate to be one of those columnists who says ‘I told you so’. But I told you so. Looking…

I wrote recently elsewhere about Jeremy Hunt’s good new book examining unnecessary deaths in the NHS. Someone should write a…

I have just posted a score of 1,625,000 on Bubbleshooter, my best yet. Bubbleshooter is a game where you fire…

I have just read an extraordinary new book. It’s by a close and old pal whom I’d count as one…

It’s 8.16 on Tuesday morning and I’m actually writing this on a moving Elizabeth line train. Moving in the sense…

If you want an inside view on the Trump White House, there could hardly be a better read than Joe…

Writing from a child’s point of view is a daredevil act that Miriam Toews raises the stakes on in her…

‘The Wars of the Three Kingdoms’ is the best description of the devastating conflict that erupted in England, Ireland and…

D.J. Taylor is a Norfolk native who, un-usually, has stayed put. These stories, written during the pandemic, are all set…

In this delightful sequel to her semi-autobiographical novel The Idiot (2017), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Elif…

What a weird lot crime writers are. I don’t come to this conclusion lightly, since I’m a crime writer myself,…

What do the following individuals have in common: a political activist from Suffolk; a chartered psychologist from Oxfordshire, who enjoys…

These Bodies of Water begins dramatically (as befits a book derived from Sabrina Mahfouz’s Royal Court show A History of…

Bronislava Nijinska was constantly undermined in her lifetime – most cruelly by her brother, says Sarah Crompton

It’s an extraordinary thing in its way to revisit Harry Potter and the Cursed Child three years after its triumphant…

When Nikolaus Pevsner dedicated his 1955 Reith Lectures to ‘The Englishness of English Art’, he left out the Scots. The…

Borgen star Sidse Babett Knudsen talks to Jasper Rees about why, after a break of ten years, the implausibly more-ish series is returning for a fourth season

Having now watched it to the end, I would say that Slow Horses (Apple TV+) is by far the best…

Rambert ages elegantly: it might just rank as the world’s oldest company devoted to modern dance (whatever that term might…

The House of Shades is a state-of-the nation play that covers the past six decades of grinding poverty in Nottingham.…

I was never into the blues that much. I listened to a bit of Roy Buchanan and Rory Gallagher but…

April is the cruellest month, but May is shaping up quite pleasantly and the daylight streamed in through the east…

Jade Goody appeared on Big Brother in 2002. She was a short, loud, blonde-haired woman who broadcast her every thought…

Top Gun is back, nearly 40 years after the original, with reprised roles for Tom Cruise (59) and Val Kilmer…

I’m starting this column on the eve of the election, so you have me at a disadvantage. But not much…

News reports tell us there has been a small furore over a list of ‘derogatory and offensive terms’ included in…

Viswanathan Anand left the spectators in awe at the Superbet Rapid earlier this month. The ‘Tiger of Madras’, as he…

The unclued lights were all extinct species. PTERODON was an acceptable variation at 5 Across. DODO was to be deleted…

Clockwise round the grid from a point to be determined run the names of four knights (2,5,5,5,5,8,5,3) followed by what…

In Competition No. 3250, you were invited to submit a sonnet to Mammon. It was ‘Epigram for Wall Street’, attributed…

Black to play. Bacrot-Anand, Bastia Rapid 2001. A spectacular blow from Anand prompted Bacrot to resign. What did he play?…

‘Apocalyptic’ food shortages, gas and electricity bills soaring, wages not keeping pace with inflation… it’s beginning to look like we’re…

The dynamics of the village can only be understood with reference to what’s happening to the parking. Unless you study…

For those of us who are prone to anxiety before playing in big tournaments, there are plenty of self-help books…

Q. My wife’s father, who she adored, has died and she is to be his sole beneficiary. She intends to…

In the West End of London there is an alley which insinuates its way between the Charing Cross Road and…

When my daughters learned to drive, I suggested they take their tests in automatics as driving manual cars would soon…

In Kyiv they have voted to changethe names of some metro stations. Heroes of the Dnieper is to become Heroes…

A couple more weeks in the Bagel and then on to dear old London. I’ve had a very good time…

Seeing Fully Wet win the European Breeders Fund Maiden Stakes at Goodwood on Saturday was a genuine source of pleasure,…

The main side effect of the six-month course of chemotherapy was ‘fatigue’. The main side effect of the three-monthly hormone…