When we say the climate is changing, we do not mean that man-made global warming is destroying planet Earth. We…

David Marr, the celebrated journalist, has done it again. First he psychoanalysed the rabid Kevin Rudd in his essay Power…

The other night, I listened to the so-called debate between Anthony Albanese and Bill Shorten as they vied for the…

The first time I met Quentin Bryce, I was a scruffy 17-year-old law student decked out in the obligatory undergraduate…

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George Osborne’s friend at the Times embodies the collapse of boundaries between the media and politics

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If Al-Shabaab was behind the terrorist attack in Nairobi, then the group has come a long way since its foundation…

It’s not enough to repeal the Human Rights Act, says Chris Grayling – our Supreme Court, not Strasbourg, must be supreme

The winning essay in our contest for exposing environmental pseudoscience takes on the expensive and damaging myth of the electric car

It doesn’t matter how many times they expand the Louvre or the Musée d’Orsay, Paris’s past is so colossally rich…

In a week in which the world is once again invited to consider the prospect of climatic Armageddon, it would…

They say nothing beats the feeling of seeing your book in print. But for me, the proudest moment was presenting…

Home The General Medical Council said it was dropping cases against four doctors who worked at Stafford Hospital at the…

Damian McBride’s revelations about back-stabbing in Gordon’s imperial court raise a serious question: what was in it for him? The…

Why we joined Sir: I was astonished by the assertion made by Wyn Grant (Letters, 21 September) that ‘the postwar…

No doubt it will happen, because the Tories will not dare oppose it, but is there any conceivable good reason…

There is a little vignette in the first volume of Alastair Campbell’s diaries that makes it abundantly clear that, at…

I’m trying to imagine what Britain would look like under a Ukip/Conservative coalition with Cameron as PM and Farage as…

Oh, but life’s easier if you’re American. Each and every last way the state meddles with your life is an…

Everyone —including me, if I’m honest — has been talking about a new property bubble. But is it for real?…

Richard Davenport-Hines on the charmed, dizzy world of the multi-talented Colette

When John Drury, himself an Anglican divine, told James Fenton (the son of a canon of Christ Church) that he…

There can be few characters in modern fiction more unpleasant than Paul-Jean Husson, the narrator in Romain Slocombe’s Monsieur le…

Is poetry in good enough health to be made fun of in this way? The irony is that this long,…

Mrs Thatcher was widely believed to have said that ‘any man over the age of 26 who finds himself on…

Simon Sebag Montefiore’s One Night in Winter begins in the hours immediately following the solemn victory parade that marked the…

Peter Snow explains that he decided to look into this extraordinary story when he realised how few people knew about…

Alan Bennett once overheard an old lady say, ‘I think a knighthood was wasted on Derek Jacobi,’ and I know…

What do women want? You might have thought the Wife of Bath had got this one sorted, but Daniel Bergner…

This book expresses what is being more and more widely felt in English-speaking and other western countries: government is becoming…

Andrew Lambirth meets Chris Ingram, the collector behind a much-lauded museum in Woking

The contrast could not have been more acute. It came the day after a press release from Christie’s New York…

In the Musée du Cinquantenaire, a grand gallery on the green edge of Brussels, those bureaucratic Belgians are welcoming home…

Think of an art at which the English have excelled and I doubt you would come up with the word…

As his father lay dying some six years ago, Julian Broke-Evans promised him that he would ‘keep telling the story’,…

In the past ten years museums of modern and contemporary art have proliferated around the world. New institutions have appeared…

Blue Jasmine is the latest film from Woody Allen who, at various stages of his career, has been declared on-form,…

How appropriate. Barking in Essex, a farce about gangsters, has been dishonestly billed as ‘a new comedy’. The script was…

Why would anyone want to adapt Berg’s Lulu, a masterpiece even if a problematic one? According to John Fulljames, who…

How many battles have been fought over sacred music throughout history? The noise you make when you worship is a…

Are you following the world’s most watched aristocratic family? If you recall, they recently took into their ranks a member…

Britain is still an essentially Victorian country (see Daily Mail for details). So it’s no surprise that we keep returning…

Gstaad The Swiss canton of Ticino is holding a referendum on a burka ban, and it is about time, too.…

I woke up in the foetal position, on my back, on Trev’s tiny sofa, with an old curtain over me.…

Walking the spaniel on Tooting Common, I was apprehended by a man on a bike. He was ashen-faced. His young…

My brother John’s great book sale, about which I wrote on this page a couple of weeks ago, finally took…

Trainers used to come into racing with Aunt Agatha’s legacy after a short service commission, having probably worn a trilby…

This week I’m tackling one of the great unmentionable subjects of bridge: the fact that players so seldom go to…

I am sorry to hear that the Australian master Max Fuller has died in Sydney at the age of 68.…

White to play. This position is from Fuller-Sorensen, Copenhagen 1980. The Black king has been driven out into the open.…

In Competition 2816 you were invited to submit a short story with an ingenious twist at the end. I was…

The unclued Across lights, when correctly paired with the unclued Down ones, are of a kind, verifiable in Brewer.  …

The unclued lights (1A, 1D/36, 4/31D, 5/27, 15/16A, 16D, 25A/40, 42 are each the PSEUDONYM (anagram of ‘Dumpynose’) of a…

I should never have agreed to buy Sasha fish for her tenth birthday. But it seemed like such a modest…

From Edinburgh airport there are more than 45 flights a day to London. And, I imagine, the same number back.…

Q. I am working on becoming a member of the Chipping Norton set. Should I be pronouncing the excellent open-air…

I was praying for a miracle, but it seemed unlikely. There had been one already: the bottle’s very survival. A…

‘It’s not right, is it?’ said Veronica, pointing to a poster for H&M women’s blazers at £17.I agreed. But she…