With any luck, Australia should have its first indigenous prime minister within our lifetimes and it will be a conservative…

Being more left than Labor doesn’t work

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My journey into the new Saudi Arabia

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Should communist China be admitted to the Trans-Pacific Partnership?

Treason of the elites

The self-flagellation of British museums

Why can’t pharmacists prescribe medication?

The enduring appeal of ’Allo ’Allo!

Is Kanye West really out to derail Trump?

The Taliban and Isis are in a battle for control

Soldiers’ wives and mothers are turning on Putin

The Tories’ wind power delusion

How to beat London’s Ulez charge

When asked about their religion in a census, many British people have the same response: that it’s none of the…

Write and wrong Sir: As a former member of the Society of Authors I read with interest Julie Bindel’s article…

Conservative party strategists face nervous days ahead as they wait to see how many Tory MPs will announce they are…

Things are currently so bad in the western democracies that we tend to ignore how much worse they are in…

One by one, life’s harmless little pleasures are outlawed by an overweening, repressive government. The Online Safety Bill has been…

I’ve always loved the Chinese national anthem. I used to think I was the loudest Communist Youth League pioneer as…

I can’t read ‘China rocked by protests’ and ‘Zero Covid could be the end of Xi Jinping’s rule’ without recalling…

As is the case with one of my favourite Australian writers and playwrights, Louis Nowra, Sydney is also my adopted…

Hazzard’s spiritual awakening on reading Leopardi’s poems and first seeing the Bay of Naples led to a lifelong passion for her adopted country

Oliver Smith takes us on a tour of train graveyards, bunkers, ghost towns, crumbling palaces – and a 7,000-bedroom hotel in North Korea that never even opened

A teenage maid goes missing after a party of men arrive at a lonely alpine hotel for a sinister carnival feast

Mark Urban describes the remarkable feats of the parachute regiment created under Churchill’s orders in June 1940 to rival the Fallschirmjäger

Other artists include James Gillray, Quentin Blake, Lucian Freud – and those inspired over the centuries by an overlooked subject in art history: the egg

Spanning the 18th and 19th centuries, Gardner’s novel tells the story of young Neva, whose ability to predict the weather nearly ruins her

The New York socialite devoted much of his time to saving wild life in Kenya – though a new biography ignores some of his less reputable views

Volume I of the definitive biography covers the first 50 years, from his birth in Vienna to the publication of his classic, The Road to Serfdom

It was the night of the Victorian election that might have seen Daniel Andrews fall like Lucifer never to rise…

If you’re of my generation, I expect your first encounter with D.H Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover was the (well-thumbed) book…

‘The Age of Anxiety’, W. H. Auden’s book-length poem, has always been described as strange, and difficult. It is an…

Reader, I let you down. But I did so for the right reason: for love. On a night when all…

It’s not until you see this exhibition of drawings by Henry Fuseli that you realise that most artists have really…

For those who consider themselves traditional liberals (full disclosure: such as me) Sunday’s first episode of Simon Schama’s History of…

Elf opens with an unbelievable premise. Buddy was abandoned as a baby and adopted by Santa’s elves and he spent…

Whoosh! A digital starburst, a sweep of orchestral sound and the stage of the Coliseum is alive with dancing, whirling…

Sam Kriss on how we became addicted to ASMR

When I wrote on this page recently about Alan Bond’s America’s Cup boxing kangaroo mascot being repurposed by the Australian…

There is an obsession today with something called ‘diversity and inclusion’. But what do those words really mean? And are…

In Competition No. 3277, you were invited to supply a poem to mark the 100th anniversary of the discovery of…

Some simpering bishops are urging their clergy to make sure that carol services do not interfere with the ship of…

So should he stay or should he go? That’s Eddie ‘I don’t really care what other people think’ Jones, currently…

Most football fans have had their attention riveted on Qatar for the past couple of weeks, but for those of…