The appalling massacre of Australian Jews at Bondi Beach on the eve of Hanukkah did not come out of nowhere.…

Bondi arrives in the nick of time

Cut immigration and bring back assimilation or end up as tribal as Beirut

Bondi – Labor’s deadly disaster

A century has passed but not much has changed

Bondi, Islamism, and mistaking posture for judgment

Don’t give the pro-Palestine mob a megaphone

A burgeoning bureaucracy serves itself not the public

Trump gets US national security mostly right

Albanese shut his eyes but the writing was literally on the walls

Albanese abandons Jews merely for electoral advantage

To walk out of a public performance before the end – be it the theatre, a concert or a lecture…

In 1980, two American academics made a bet. Julian Simon, professor of economics at the University of Illinois, predicted that…

A century ago, Britain had reason to despair. A generation had been lost to war, influenza was killing those who…

In July, Victoria, Lady Starmer was photographed at Royal Ascot, celebrating with friends after backing the winner of the Princess…

There are always new ways for drinks companies to make alcohol seem even more exciting. Smirnoff has added gold leaf…

There’s a myth that lots of us fall for/ ‘Kids’ books are so easy to write’/ And you can see…

I have recently begun training for holy orders in the Church of England. I know, they’re getting desperate. My motivation…

I didn’t force any hyacinths this Christmas. Most years I plant a dozen bulbs at the end of September and…

In Citizens, his account of the French Revolution, Simon Schama wrote how the Jacobins recruited children into ‘relentless displays of…

Apostasy – specifically, conversion to Christianity from Islam – is punishable by death in Iran. Suspected Christians are routinely imprisoned…

Erasmus in England The government is to rejoin the Erasmus scheme, which allows students at British universities to spend time…

In 1956, Malta held a referendum on joining the United Kingdom. Since the islands were economically reliant on the Royal…

The chief function of the prime minister is to take the blame, and Sir Keir Starmer can no more escape…

Home The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs announced plans to criminalise trail hunting ‘amid concerns it is being…

What with the threat of global warming and nuclear war, the new year might start with a big bang. The…

Man with man to dwell Sir: Your editorial (‘All ye faithful’, 13-27 December) suggests that scepticism about Stephen Yaxley-Lennon’s (Tommy…

Contemplating a new year always raises questions. Was there a Third Protocol? What was wrong with Oral-A? Can Keir Starmer…

A traditional British Christmas is not complete until we have all enjoyed the seasonal cancellation of a celebrity, under the…

Convicted last month of plotting what could have proved the worst terrorist attack in British history, Walid Saadaoui had hoped…

Forecasting is a mug’s game, as the Bank of England governor Mervyn King once said. But I’ll sketch a few…

What would you like the priorities of His Majesty’s government to be? I have quite a long list. Sorting out…

Tibet is portrayed as an uneasy cultural crossroads where globalisation, spirituality and the political traumas of two peoples collide in this sardonic, erudite novel

We know from the outset that things will end very darkly indeed in this epic novel set in Utah during the run-up to Halloween, 1982

A comprehensive new edition of the writer’s notebooks allows us to take a deep dive into his theories about absurdity, tragedy, nobility and death and his schemes for future stories

The creators of the mother of all mockumentaries share anecdotes about the film’s origins, how it was made, why it matters and the way fiction transformed into fact

A tender, evocative novel portrays the lives of the once celebrated painters Colquhoun and MacBride, from their first meeting in Glasgow to their fractious later years

A rigorously researched novel mingles fact and fiction in retelling the events that led up to the murder of the film director Pier Paolo Pasolini on 2 November 1975

Reading the biographies of its 16 taoisigh, we can trace Ireland’s astonishing progress from poverty-stricken backwater to thriving liberal democracy

Henrik Meinander tells the story of a city ravaged by plague, fire, war and occupation being constantly rebuilt and resettled over five centuries

Fifty years after Franco’s death, Giles Tremlett assesses the generalisimo’s bloodstained legacy

Being a Scorpio, the 85-year-old novelist explains, she ‘holds grudges’ – but the many past grievances she recalls in detail make for dispiriting reading

The startling interventions and adaptations of a great 20th-century Venetian architect and designer are examined in detail by Federica Goffi

It’s funny how implicated we are in the places from which we take our bearings. Memories of the Lexington-Concord bridge,…

‘What we want is proper comedy!’ bellows the male chorus in the opening seconds of Prokofiev’s L’amour des trois oranges…

Song Sung Blue is a musical biopic of the real-life Milwaukee couple who formed a Neil Diamond tribute act and…

Unusual. After the press night of Indian Ink by Tom Stoppard, no one leapt up and cheered. The crowd applauded…

Has anyone got to the end of Malice yet? I’m halfway through – at the time of writing, anyway –…

Flanders and Swann; Tom and Jerry. Some things come in pairs. Like Turner and Constable, even though our two most…

Grade: D A Montreal band led by a Ukrainian/Canadian called Ivan Doruschuk, with a histrionic baritone, famous solely for having…

Less than two months after its imposition, the world’s first children’s social media ban is already exceeding targets, with a…

Let’s begin the year by summarising the ‘Words of the Year’ chosen by the world’s great dictionaries to represent last…

For Competition 3430 you were invited to write a rhyming prophecy for 2026. Joe Houlihan’s closing couplet encapsulates the tenor…

Going to see QPR on Boxing Day has become a tradition in the Young household – and not because we…

I once stood in a queue behind a Scotsman checking out of a hotel in Germany. After he had finished…

Q. Around this time of year a successful friend likes to rent an expensive ski chalet with cook and fill…

Perhaps because of the Flanders and Swann song in which a louche older gentleman tries to lure a younger lady…

We spent an hour in the Garda station trying to explain ourselves to a flame-haired police lady. She sat with…

Dante’s Beach, Ravenna Maria, the boisterous new vizsla who gives the old one, Rocco, such a hard time, was in…