The decision by the Albanese government to employ former Liberal New South Wales treasurer Matt Kean to sell its renewables…

My trip to the killing fields of 7 October

The long-awaited apology for despoiling our environment

China dominates renewables by burning coal

The eSafety Commissioner’s mission to re-wokify Twitter

A crisis in democracy?

Will Keating criticise China’s nuclear power?

Social media has helped turn young Europeans away from the left

Tories in a death spiral

The scandal-mired Pope is determined to destroy the Latin Mass

Just follow the money

Young people are supposed to drink a ton, have a lot of sex, hang out with their friends at every…

Boris Johnson has three lifesize, carved wooden elephants in his garden, given to him by his wife for his 60th…

Palomino, Colombia I’m in a truly wonderful place: the Caribbean coast of Colombia. It’s got more bird species than most…

On 1 September 2021, six months before his full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin was speaking at the All-Russian Children’s…

Nigel Farage is about to turn British politics upside-down for a third time. His Ukip insurgency forced the Tories to…

Nigel Farage says that Britain is ready for a ‘revolt’, and he’s not the only candidate in this election committed…

The builder who has been working on my house in Burgundy will be voting for Marine Le Pen’s National Rally…

I arrive at Lviv station just before 9 a.m. As the clock strikes, the conductor announces a minute’s silence: a daily…

Gareth Southgate has always been a man interested in life outside the football circus. When he played for England, I…

Home The Conservative party withdrew its support from two parliamentary candidates, Craig Williams (who was parliamentary private secretary to the…

On the face of it, 2024 is a great year for democracy. Britain is one of 50 countries to hold…

Judge not Sir: The claim by Ross Clark (‘Keir’s law’, 22 June) that the left can achieve what it wants…

Close encounters The last time a parliamentary election in Britain was tied was in 1886 in Ashton-under-Lyne, when Liberal and…

When the forthcoming election result is announced, the triumphant party will presumably proclaim: ‘The British people have spoken!’ That will…

As all non-bigoted readers will know, this is the holy and most ancient month of Pride. The time of year…

‘We are the masters now,’ I chirrup to my Holborn and St Pancras neighbours – misquoting Labour attorney-general Hartley Shawcross…

When Rishi Sunak stunned his cabinet colleagues by calling a snap election, they feared the worst. Fast forward a month…

Lots and lots and lots of fuss about betting on the general election. Less attention is paid to the biggest…

Some of my good male friends, Tories, are sick of terfs. I can see it in their shifty eyes, in…

Nine days of campaigning to go and I haven’t been milkshaked yet. I’ve hung out near McDonald’s in the hope…

Two left-wing political analysts seek to bury the whole economic approach taken by the Conservatives since 2010 – or perhaps even 1979

Taking advantage of a relatively open period after the 2015 election, Claire Hammond explored the country’s interior through its complex, unofficial railway network

The sudden return of the liberated Colette Crowley to the Donegal fishing village of Ardglas stirs fear and resentment in the closed community

Flamboyant theatrics were part of Michael Volpe’s life as CEO of Opera Holland Park. But those of his feuding Italian relatives rival anything seen on stage

As a descendant of Jan Smuts, Pedder is Afrikaner aristocracy. But she finds the legacy increasingly problematic while researching the lives of her female forebears

In 19th-century Butte, Montana, a reluctant new bride falls in love with the young man sent to photograph her – leading to violent retribution for the doomed couple

Paintings, books and treasures collected by the same family over centuries give a historical depth that no modern plutocrat can recreate

Imprisoned in Newgate, Sir Thomas Malory spins wondrous tales of his ‘gentle acts of valour’ to the jailor’s son. And who cares whether they are true or not?

The Iraq war, the financial crisis, Brexit and Covid have seen many prime ministers blown off course. Will Keir Starmer be any luckier than his predecessors?

It is becoming more than a useful tool, fears Neil Lawrence. As it takes over most of our work, we grow less and less efficient at doing what remains

Influenced by Kipling’s Kim, early CIA officers combined a love of overseas adventure with a whiff of imperial paranoia, says Hugh Wilford

Long derided as ‘feh’ by his Orthodox parents, the American writer admits to being his own hanging judge

What a strange experience it is for an ageing innocent adult to find himself in the plush and state of…

To defend my case that Frederick Ashton ought to be acknowledged as one of the major artistic geniuses of the…

The Constituent is a larky show about violence against female politicians. A strange subject for a comedy. Anna Maxwell Martin…

Grade: C I don’t doubt the ingenuity. The mastery of a technology which now exists as a substitute for melody,…

Taylor Swift is the last of the monocultural pop icons. Put it this way: I bet you’ve heard of her.…

If you want to kill a musical, make it into a movie. Cats, Phantom of the Opera, South Pacific… cinema…

New Zealand in crisis Given the destruction the previous Labour government inflicted on this country, and the damage caused by…

How are you enjoying dealing with the bureaucrats who run our lives these days? (I heard your answer, and you…

When Pope Francis complained recently about too much frociaggine (faggotry) in the Catholic Church, he certainly struck a chord in…

‘That’ll be the old pivot again,’ said Amol Rajan on Today last week. He was interviewing Pat McFadden, who is…

The Langham is a Victorian Gothic hotel opposite the BBC in Portland Place. It’s an odd place: haunted house near…

You tend to like a jockey who has just ridden you a 16-1 winner, as Callum Shepherd did last Saturday…

Whenever I think of steak tartare, I can’t help but remember a heartbreaking passage in Nigel Slater’s memoir Toast. Slater,…

Q. I like and get on well with my sister-in-law. My problem is that she is incredibly nosy and I…

I was pleasantly surprised when I got an email from the Acton Gardening Association last October telling me that a…

The £80 million super-yacht with a helicopter on the upper deck sat in the harbour, and we sat outside the…