With Australia Day vanishing in the rear-view mirror and most of the nation learning to live with Covid, the stage…

Australians are following Americans in a dangerous experiment

Beijing sees Labor as a more compliant partner

Jordan Peterson cancels his subscription to campus correctness

Save us from a Seinfeld election

Most legacy media companies offer Covid propaganda not investigative journalism

The Tongan island that blew up explodes the climate myth about sea levels

Australia can’t afford complacency

Numbers tell the story of Australia’s northern war

A real choice is emerging

How men’s rights became a big political issue

Has the government lost interest in Brexit?

Faith in ‘Saint Jacinda’ is starting to fade

The seduction of back-page ads

‘God Save the Queen’ trended on Ukrainian social media over the weekend. ‘As a Brit in Kiev I have never…

The difficulties of downsizing

We in Britain have long been much more squeamish about fur than other Europeans. I still well remember the snide…

It suits both Boris and Putin to pretend that Russia may invade Ukraine

Russia’s star Sir: Wolfgang Münchau is surely right to highlight the risk posed to European peace and stability by Germany’s…

When Omicron struck, Britain was already the most boosted country in Europe. Our programme was so advanced that 80 per…

Prime numbers As of 29 January Boris Johnson will have been Prime Minister for two years and 190 days. Currently…

I only voted in one no-confidence motion. The leader was Iain Duncan Smith, and it was a bit awkward. I…

Home Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, told the Commons that Britain was prepared to send troops to protect Nato allies…

The singer Cher, now 75, has announced that, because she refuses to appear old, she is not going to allow…

‘Market turmoil’ looks set as the theme of the week, so let’s take a close look at a trading arena…

I know that all must have prizes in the Victimisation Olympics these days, but when I heard a bicycle-rider on…

‘The main job of a government is to ensure that the economics don’t go wrong.’ So argued an economist friend…

I must offer my support to Luke Main and Dr Joanna Brunker, who as a consequence of their fervent Christian…

Justin Webb is normally one of the least self-righteous BBC presenters, but he was out-Maitlising rivals on the Today programme…

‘I can’t put into words how awful this is’ remarks one Tory MP. The party is split not on the…

For decades the purpose of British settlement in New South Wales seemed too obvious to question. The American War of…

The idea of ‘pre-crime’ was popularised by Philip K. Dick’s story ‘The Minority Report’ and the 2002 Steven Spielberg film…

In her memoir Time on Rock, Anna Fleming charts her progress from ‘terrified novice’ to ‘competent leader’ as she scales…

The atmospheric medieval town of Rye on the south coast still celebrates being a former haunt of smugglers, and on…

On 23 May 1804, two months before his daughter’s wedding, John Coakley Lettsom threw open his estate in Camberwell. Some…

An incalculable number of trees have been hewn down recently in order to provide paper for people writing lengthy, largely…

Climate change may be the central challenge of our century, but almost all attention has focused on its consequences for…

The KGB might not have known much about modern art, but they knew what they liked. For instance, at what…

Kathleen Stock describes how four women undergraduates in 1940s Oxford challenged an arid, modish philosophy

Her name has faded, but the British author and editor Kay Dick once cut a striking figure. She lived in…

For Jean-Paul Dubois, as for Emily Dickinson, ‘March is the month of expectation’. A prolific writer, he limits his literary…

How strange it is to be in a supposedly opened-up world, even as the Omicron variety of the virus shuts…

Francis Bacon sensed our inner beastliness and painted it with astonishing power, says Martin Gayford

This week marks the beginning of modernism season on BBC Radio 3 and 4, which means it’s time for some…

Moulin Rouge wins no marks for its storyline. A struggling Parisian theatre is bought out by an evil financier who…

Velvet waistcoats, technicolour tulle and some very spangly harem pants — English National Ballet’s atelier must have been mighty busy…

Pedro Almodovar’s latest is a film about identity, secrets, lies, buried skeletons, real and metaphorical. But what you mainly need…

The second most interesting thing about this digital exhibition is that it is not for art critics like me. I…

Say what you like about that Duke of Mantua, but he’s basically an OK sort of bloke. A bit of…

The single thing you don’t want when you are beginning a run of four shows in a prestige venue, with…

Older readers may remember a time when people signalled their cultural superiority with the weird boast that they didn’t watch…

Even in Australian publications of a conspicuously conservative disposition, it has been some time since any respected pundit has suggested,…

Here’s a delightful expression I have just encountered: ‘offence archaeology’. This is the practice of going through the social media…

Eight unclued lights, arranged symmetrically, comprise two quartets, one of which makes the other go round.   Across 1 How…

‘Sorry I’m late,’ I said to the big unit stationed behind her computer. She’s the chief, this one. She shows…

After launching an investigation into my missing phone, Vodafone informed me it could not deal with me any further until…

During lockdown I had a bit of a tidy-up and came across a Post-it note with the following statement written…

‘What’s so funny?’ asked my husband, accusingly, as I made an amused noise while relaxing with a copy of the…

Gstaad Dinner parties are no longer verboten here, so I posed a question to some youngsters my son had over:…

As we digest another Ashes thrashing for England’s cricketers in Australia, and wonder whether the 1966 World Cup victory will…

Black to play. Grandelius–Rapport, Tata Steel Chess 2022. With a bishop resting on a3, the White king can never sit…

The Cadogan hotel, Chelsea, is where Oscar Wilde was arrested for sodomy and gross indecency in 1895, in Room 118,…

Q. I treat myself to a manicure every ten days. It’s a 30-minute appointment and the girl I use is…

I did a speed awareness course on Monday. For the uninitiated, you have the option of doing one of these…

The exchange that gave rise to the expression CURATE’s (19 Down) Egg was ‘I’m afraid you’ve got a bad egg,…

In Competition No. 3233, you were invited to invent a new character for the Mr Men/Little Miss series by Roger…

When Magnus Carlsen won last year’s Meltwater Champions Tour, they made two trophies. One was for Carlsen, and the second…