As usual, it takes John Howard to cut to the chase with one pithy comment, in this instance on the…

Last week we looked at whether the proposed Voice will give rise to an avalanche of litigation and we argued…

The Biden scandal is far worse than Watergate

Who will defend a nation nobody respects?

Be afraid

The King’s commitment to steer clear of politics didn’t last long

The new misinformation bill is a disgrace

Labour mocks New Zealanders with its absurd new slogan

Indigenous Australians say No to ‘just another trick’

We used to be able to tell you what was worth listening to

It can never close the gap

Labour’s new private donors

The Tory candidate for London mayor lets rip

The rise of the godbots

Where has Xi’s foreign minister gone?

Inside Ukraine’s drone army

The drive for inclusivity in children’s publishing

Football fans’ loyalty no longer lies with clubs, but players

The Coutts scandal can be traced back to the day, two years ago, when the bank proudly announced that it…

In this summer of sporting dramas, every patriotic sports fan likes to think he’s done his bit to help. I…

The almost complete absence of anything remotely resembling an intersection in the progressive doctrine of intersectionality poses a problem for…

Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), dropped the bomb last weekend. In a TV interview, Merz…

We now have a reluctant apology from Dame Alison Rose, followed by her even more reluctant resignation. Her departure is…

Back in March there was a glut of pieces about the 2003 Iraq war. The 20th anniversary seemed to much…

For British taxpayers perturbed by their £6 million daily bill for housing asylum seekers in hotels, New York City mayor…

Dame Alison Rose should not have resigned as head of NatWest over the Nigel Farage affair – and ministers who…

Catherine Taylor describes her anxiety growing up in Sheffield against an ‘uneasy backdrop’ of picketing miners, the Hillsborough disaster and a serial killer on the loose

A brother and sister are dispatched to a relative’s farm in Colorado, and grow up isolated, unfeeling and even estranged from each other

The first banknotes were greeted with deep suspicion in 1769 – but it was nothing to the distrust that Soviet and post-Soviet issues aroused

There is no redemption in this account of the birth of Latin Christendom, with ‘heretics’ suffering cruelly for the beliefs, just as Christian martyrs had under the Romans

The erotic adventures of a teenager who finally meets her match became a succès de scandale in 1920, and will still raise eyebrows today

Andrew Harding describes the hastily assembled ‘Dad’s Army’ – and formidable babushka – who sensationally resisted the Russian advance on Voznesensk last year

In her powerful memoir-cum-manifesto, Selina Mills tells us what she misses most, what irritates her most and why she won’t have a guide dog

Before the Troubles hijacked its reputation, the city was renowned for its linen industry and great shipyards, responsible for an eighth of the global shipbuilding trade

Of the Stones’ talented wives and girlfriends, Anita Pallenberg contributed most, dictating the band’s style and even how they should remix tracks

His fateful intransigence over the negotiations has been variously ascribed to a Christ-complex, an unhappy childhood and even latent homosexuality

Alex Clark enjoys a poignant story centring on a cherry orchard, three sisters and their mother’s past love affair

The experience of watching Warwick Thornton’s The New Boy, his film with Cate Blanchett as the nun running an orphange…

Bernstein’s Candide is the operetta that ought to work, but never quite does. Voltaire’s featherlight cakewalk through human misery, set…

We’ll get on to the brilliance of Regina Spektor in a moment. But first a question: why are pop music…

Oppenheimer is Christopher Nolan’s biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant quantum physicist and ‘father of the atomic bomb’ who…

The boss of the Royal Court, Vicky Featherstone, will soon step down and she’s using her final spell in charge…

If there’s one thing the internet knows, it’s that cats sell. The Scottish painter Elizabeth Blackadder, who died in 2021…

I wish I could say that Bamber Gascoigne would be turning in his grave at what has happened to University…

At the Paris International Exhibition of 1867, Mark Twain was mesmerised by a life-sized silver swan with ‘a living grace…

Hungarian culture is living through a golden age, says Igor Toronyi-Lalic, and the West has much to learn from it

Wellbeing is complicated. Like junk food and cigarettes, we need professionals to explain it to us, maybe with an expensive…

The compound noun ‘rage apply’ is (I am told) the name being given to a new trend in workplaces around…

It was the English summer at its most perverse. We were drinking Pimm’s while hoping against hope for better news…

Being the CEO of a massive corporation isn’t easy. You’re expected to grow the company, increase profits and boost the…

It is a tenet of neo-liberal economics that there is no such thing as a free lunch. This is obvious…

In Competition No. 3309, you were invited to compose a poem starting with the last line of any well-known poem…

‘God it’s hot,’ said a Newbury waitress escaping into the lift from rain-soaked crowds jostling in the bars last Saturday.…

Having loaded the last sack of working dog food in Surrey into my car, I slammed the trolley back into…