A report by the Peter Doherty Institute suggests that good old Aussie garlic is good for warding off the coronavirus.…

The scam of recycling

Liberal moderates need a few home truths

Is the Vatican waking up to Xi Jinping?

Democracy is being let down by our elected officials

Red Ted’s big green plan for world domination

Labor is depowering our economy

Beware the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

The perils of abandoning the separation of powers

Here’s what happens when the Left divides a country by race

Disastrous consequences are still with us

The Tories are trying on Labour’s clothes

Navel-gazing in the civil service

Dr Jean Twenge on why teenagers are so unhappy

The crackdown on China’s stand-up comics

The highs and lows of being a meth addict

Don’t cancel Beatrix Potter

When did the Irish lose their sense of humour?

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Exciting news arrives. The Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, has let it be known that he wants more northerners nominated for…

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As I have noted before, there is always another circle. I thought that last week’s scandal (originally entitled ‘Suellagate’ or…

Whether you’re more afraid of the forces of order or the forces of chaos is generally a matter of disposition.…

Harry Pearson’s tour of village games over the centuries even includes a Georgian football match where an Englishman’s severed head was used as the ball

The fates of members of a Jewish family depend on accidental meetings, the boarding of a ship or the ring of a phone in this complex fable woven from 20th-century history

Their jostling energy and distinct personalities bring joy not only to their owners but increasingly to children in therapy and lonely pensioners in care homes

A dramatic rejuvenation drug is being distributed to a wealthy elite, enabling them to tower over the other inhabitants of the mysterious lake city of Othrys

Florian Illies describes the charged atmosphere of Europe in the early 1930s, as people grew increasingly desperate to celebrate their last chance of freedom

Sunder Katwala, of Indian-Irish heritage, analyses the whiteness of the Remain vote, seeing Britain’s pro-European movement as a case of cosmopolitanism without diversity

Anne L. Murphy provides a vivid picture of clients, clerks and couriers, pay and perks, cases of fraud and incompetence and the underappreciated threat of fire and violence

Adapted from interviews with a trainer from Iowa, Scanlan’s novel is a disturbing portrait of violence and squalor behind the scenes at racing stables

Academic jargon, back-scratching and literary scandals were all ripe for treatment in the long-running N.B. by J.C. column – now available in a glorious miscellany

Determined sceptics will always find reasons to cast doubt on Shakespeare’s authorship, but who cares in the end, Emma Smith wonders

It’s good to report that the latest revival of The Rocky Horror Show with Jason Donovan as Frank-N-Furter is true…

Can we know an artist by their house, asks Laura Freeman

Mrs Doubtfire is a social comedy about divorce. We meet Miranda, a talentless, bitter mother, who tires of her caring…

Reviewing the Prado’s joint exhibition of Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana in the Art Newspaper three years ago, Brian Allen…

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anything worse than Mötley Crüe in Sheffield. Nothing more tuneless, empty, vapid and dismaying.…

In advance, The Gallows Pole: This Valley Will Rise was touted as a radical departure for director Shane Meadows. After…

Zoe Strimpel talks to the anti-Putin Russian artists who have been cancelled since
the invasion of Ukraine

Imagine waking from a 50-year coma to find that the TV in your recovery room was permanently tuned to a…

Recently I came across the expression ‘weaponised words’– the idea that words with a standard, accepted meaning can be changed…

It had been billed as the most controversial debate of the year, with even Rishi Sunak intervening to say that…

Michael Adams took first place at the Chessable English Championship in Kenilworth last weekend, winning the tournament with 6/7. In…

Burgundy or Bordeaux? We were discussing that unending question during dinner over the weekend. I think that there is only…

Suella Braverman was completely wrong to ask her civil servants to investigate the possibility of arranging a one-on-one speed awareness…

Everybody in racing is looking for an edge. With 7-4 the field, the punter is looking for a 2-1. The…

‘Have you got your passport? Your phone? Your wallet?’ The builder boyfriend patted his pockets and told me not to…