It’s hard to see what Dyson Heydon, Mark Latham and anal sex have in common, yet these are the three…

It was about 2 years ago that I started hanging out with Teddy. And what a roller- coaster of a…

Greenies’ destructive ‘lawfare’ must be stopped

We’re off to see Tony Abbott launch When We Were Young and Foolish, Greg Sheridan’s new book. How a pair…

It’s not so long ago that the commetariat was talking about the end of Qantas, at least as an international…

Run through the Abbott government’s charge sheet and there’s not much evidence of the ‘rabid’ right

Do the ALP really want to promote an Islamist, racist, ethnically-pure Palestine?

An Aussie’s role in a unique ‘Marshall Plan of Ideas’ designed to try to save Russia from itself

The BDS movement is doing enormous harm to only one group — the Palestinians.

Euthanasia’s development in Holland and Belgium is a cautionary tale for those considering the idea here

It’s one pub among thousands – but one at the centre of a community, and of stories told from generation to generation

Clare Byam-Cook’s tolerant advice inspires rage on Mumsnet – but it could save new mothers from misery and shame

Thought ‘humanitarian intervention’ was dead and buried? No such luck. It’s taking pride of place in the American election

Drug dealers, too, are having to change in the face of the on-demand economy

Technological fixes won’t help them – the answer is to target human stupidity

Results matter only for where they lead

The Chancellor may yet be lucky. But the look on his face this week suggests he fears otherwise

Home Harriet Harman, the acting leader of the Labour party, said that 3,000 people had had any votes they cast…

What to see, what to do, and what to eat…

Plus: Police Tasers, West End ticket prices and air-show tragedies

Hating kings and queens is not enough. Is he ready to share power?

From ‘A Converted Peace-Man’, The Spectator, 28 August 1915: We have brought the present war upon ourselves in a great measure…

Plus: a former ambassador on valedictory blogging; and another freelance alternative to the RAF

New Tory MPs are mostly fully paid-up members of the Prime Minister’s fan club

Obsessive searching for hurt and offence will create it where once it never existed

In fact I am so upset I may have to break off writing to vomit again

I had good reasons for ignoring it. And Catcher in the Rye, too. But I’m glad Boy forced me to change my mind

Plus: the meaning of the ‘Corbynomics’ endorsement; and an opportunity coming into view

In Fighters in the Shadows, Robert Gildea dares to suggest that the struggle in France against the German Occupation — so central to French identity — was too disparate even to be called ‘the French Resistance’

Concluding her latest trilogy, Noonday sees the few remaining Slade painters bearing up — and bearing stretchers — through the Blitz

Jacky Colliss Harvey’s colourful history of the redhead includes sinners, temptresses, villains and feisty rebels from Boudicca to Thelma and Louise

A complex drama of cultural politics and family life, Purity fulfils our great expectations of this prize-winning American author — in more ways than one

The battle of Agincourt — a high point of Cursed Kings, the penultimate volume of Jonathan Sumption’s history of the Hundred Years War — was a great English victory snatched from the jaws of defeat

Elijah Wald explains how the music world changed forever on 25 July 1965 at Newport, Rhode Island

The trials of married life and the revenge of a spurned mistress are among the themes of promising debut novels from Michela Wrong, Natasha Pulley, Benjamin Johncock and Julia Pierpont

This updated version of How Long Will South Africa Survive? sees the country more crippled than ever by corruption, cronyism and greed

In Kid Gloves, Adam Mars-Jones details the difficulties of caring for his cantankerous father — a distinguished judge who could never admit to being wrong

Andrew Michael Hurley makes the sinister too seductive in his debut novel The Loney — but this is a writer to watch, says Susan Hill

The Italian architect gave his name to a style that spread around the world. But has Palladianism been too successful for its own good, asks Stephen Bayley

From Eric Ravilious to Grayson Perry, the art of this much maligned English county is an unexpectedly rich theme, as two superb Fry Art Gallery shows prove

Grimeborn festival's budget production with just a piano for accompaniment couldn't hope to do justice to the only other thing the work has going for it: its orchestration

The claim of The Other Prince William that 'you can have the woman or you can have the throne but you can't have both' might have been stronger if Prince William of Gloucester ever had any chance of the throne

Plus: a concise, precise emotional retelling of the life of Nijinsky at the Fringe and an ambitious visit from Ballett am Rhein. Meanwhile, in London, the St Petersburg Ballet Theatre offers up a travesty

Tom Courtenay gives a subtle performance but most of the credit for the brilliance of the film must lie with director Andrew Haigh and a transfixing Charlotte Rampling

Lucas Hnath’s The Christians analysis religious feeling with high seriousness and sympathy and transfers to the Gate next week

Plus: an odd but compelling start to David Byrne's new Sunday-afternoon show on 6 Music and a cleverly done Radio 2 drama about the 1965 meeting of Elvis and The Beatles

The oldest professional orchestra in Australia with the longest continuous history, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will next year celebrate its…

From the immaculately dressed and elegantly tailored to the Hiltons and the Kardiashians

A train conductor delayed departure so I could have a smoke

A lovely little house near Chipping Norton seems less attractive once you've accepted an offer on your flat

Surveys prove the anomaly – I blame smartphones

Remembering my father’s hunting stories, and Crown Prince the bull elephant

I hope Zia Mahmood will forgive me. It’s not often I come across a contract that he has failed to…

I have never met David Smerdon, the Australian grandmaster and author of Smerdon’s Scandinavian (Everyman Chess). Last week I gave…

Black to play. This position is a variation from variation from Maslak-Smerdon, Pardubice 2007. Black has powered through on the…

In Competition No. 2912 you were invited to submit a tribute in verse to a once-popular foodstuff that has fallen…

Clockwise from 4 run three titles (6,2,3,6,7,9,3,4,3,4,5) linked with X who won a 21 of 8s. 29 is a fourth…

Edmund Clerihew Bentley wrote: The art of Biography/ Is different from Geography/ Geography is about maps/ But Biography is about…

Plus ça change: they leave it to Americans and Brits to protect them from murderous fascists

But there are couple of industries left which really do need to be regulated

Plus: When the owners invade your rented holiday house

No wonder that friends with houses here are hard to entice away

There are a lot more Mileys and Jaydens around, too