Dear Boris, How ironic that at the very moment you succeed in unshackling your great country from the tyranny and…

As is obvious from recent events, we live in times where it is not enough to disagree with someone and…

Apparently many travellers now pay more attention to a hotel’s guest reviews than to its advertising. I tend to ignore…

As is obvious from recent events, we live in times where it is not enough to disagree with someone and…

Who will save our kids from a socialist world of despair?

On Harry Miller’s important win against Britain’s thought police

Chinese leaders should apologise for the coronavirus

...as Turnbull fans the flames of outrage

How far did the predatory behaviour go?

The Voice is toxic

The untold untold story

Two irreconcilable versions of Brexit are about to collide

Let animals be animals

Criminal gangs are growing rich on public-sector contracts

How Blair’s protégé became another African strongman

What would a Keir Starmer Labour party look like?

The most dangerous thing about coronavirus is the hysteria

In 1978, an invitation was sent to some 200 members of Oxford’s Dangerous Sports Club, which simply read: ‘Tea, Rockall,…

Home The government told Britons returning from 11 quarantined towns in northern Italy to isolate themselves, for fear of spreading…

I made the mistake of saying I thought insects might help feed the world. They are high-protein, cheap to farm…

What a hole The World Health Organisation added processed meats to its list of ‘known’ carcinogens. A few of the…

The PM is insisting that the briefings he finds in his red box every evening should be, well, brief, and…

Devolved or decentralised? Sir: Paul Collier (‘Northern lights’, 22 February) conflates what devolution has come to mean, in UK terms, with…

A cornerstone of any -functioning democracy is the separation of police and the courts on one hand, and government and…

The fall from grace of Jean Vanier is truly a sad story. The founder of the L’Arche communities did extraordinary…

‘Bernie beats Trump! Bernie beats Trump!’ That’s what Bernie Sanders’s fans keep chanting, and they have the polls to prove…

We will rue the day we all decided bullying was a bad thing. The consequence is that the inept, the…

The online world should be credited when it gets something right. And on Twitter an account titled ‘On This Day…

When it was first reported that Johnny Depp had been hit and pelted with crockery by his slight, blonde then…

If anything, stock markets have been slow to respond to the spreading coronavirus outbreak. Stories of Chinese supply interruptions, from…

Nothing prepared Antony Beevor for this devastating exposé
of the systematic use of rape in war and ethnic cleansing

Some years ago I participated in a late-night Radio 3 show on exploration and travel. When I left the studio…

When you’re not a mother it’s hard to imagine what motherhood is like. Anyone you know who becomes one assures…

Faced with Marina Lewycka’s new novel, it’s tempting to say that The Good, the Bad and the Little Bit Stupid…

There’s something — isn’t there? — of the literary also-ran about Graham Swift. He was on Granta’s first, influential Best…

Menachem Begin was Israel’s most reviled and misunderstood prime minister. Reviled by Britain for his paramilitary activities against the British…

The art of falconry is more than 3,000 years old and possibly as popular now as at any time. Its…

In 1983 I was sent to New York to interview Johnny Rotten and I took the opportunity to call on…

This book is a rather startling depiction of Hugh Trevor-Roper’s involvement with the Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding (SACU), his sponsored…

After a record 18 years – and counting – as music director, Antonio Pappano talks to Norman Lebrecht about life after Covent Garden and how opera is beyond younger audiences

Grade: B The old axiom no longer applies. In modern popular music, it is possible not only to gild a…

Verdi’s Luisa Miller is set in the Tyrol in the early 17th century, and for some opera directors that’s a…

As in many thrillers, the characters on display in Flesh and Blood (ITV, Monday to Thursday) often seemed locked in…

A Moorish princess shipwrecked on the English coast disguises herself as a boy to protect her virtue. Arriving in London,…

Pina Bausch’s best work always hovered between the familiar and the unknown. The late choreographer revelled in borders and thresholds,…

The strange and faintly sinister works of the Belgian artist Léon Spilliaert have been compared — not unreasonably — to…

Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire is set on a remote, windswept Brittany island in the late 18th…

He’s barely in his forties. He’s married with two nearly teenage daughters. He lives in Brisbane. He’s a staff journalist…

Gstaad It feels like a sepia-tinged melodrama, one directed by the great schlock master Sam Wood. Driving along the winding…

Joyce Marriott of Pyrton, Oxford, has written a letter to the Times on the subject of how a person’s imagination…

Nice of the NHS to send an advisory text about coronavirus, because I was wondering. Is it possible to have…

Bridge experts are a lovely lot. They give their time freely and generously to encourage and teach students and bring…

The science-fiction writer Douglas Adams ridiculed our primitive species for considering digital watches to be ‘a pretty neat idea’. Digital…

White to play, a variation from McShane–-Kamsky. In the game above, I was hoping to see 31…Qa5, as I had…

In Competition No. 3137, to mark the 70th anniversary of George Orwell’s death, you were invited to submit a short…

Each clue defines the full solution to which the letter-count refers. However, the cryptic wordplay leads to the grid entry,…

Each unclued light is a genus name of a TREE (i.e. ‘middle of the road’ = (s)TREE(t)). Cornus was also allowed…

This week sees the official launch of the Free Speech Union — an organisation that stands up for the speech…

Thankfully, Tyson Fury is as good at boxing as he is terrible at singing. But he really should pick on…

Q. I adore doing jigsaws and these days there’s an added bonus — by posting my progress on Instagram I…

Ugly Butterfly is a zero-waste restaurant and champagne bar on the King’s Road, Chelsea. The ‘champagne bar’ addition is so…

Before the Covid-19 scare I never thought that one particular Spanish proverb would come in useful. It goes: ‘Los ojos…