The news that Iran was behind at least two of the recent antisemitic attacks in Australia is horrifying, but not…

The Samuel Griffith Society’s sacred mission

Jimbo’s ‘Lazy Susan’ roundtable

Cheap debt has destroyed affordable housing

It’s on the decline (thank God!)

The kids want a bigger slice of the Boomer pie

Is it legal and what would it achieve?

Go west, young bikie

Iran’s terror diplomacy is no joke

The cowardly undergraduate politics of Labor

Remove terrorist regime

Something unusual is happening in Denmark – and other countries across Europe, including Britain, ought to pay attention. This spring,…

A recent photograph on a BBC website startled me. It was of hundreds of books thrown out of a former…

Pope Leo XIV has announced, though not in the form of a bull, that he will be sharing the Apostolic…

The foster care system in this country is collapsing. There are roughly 80,000 children who’ve been removed from violent or…

‘I heard you want your country back. Ha, shut the fuck up!’ So yelped rap-punk duo Bob Vylan on stage…

With a new history of slavery and the slave trade in the Islamic world just published, I am under strict…

As Sigmund Freud pointed out way back in 1905, everyone feels a bit schizo about Mum. On the one hand,…

As a foster carer and an adopter, I know what neglect looks like. I’ve looked after children who didn’t know…

‘The problems of financing our deficits have seriously hampered progress in achieving our goals,’ wrote Labour’s chancellor Denis Healey in…

For teenage girls on TikTok, the makeup routine is an almost sacred ritual. Manicured fingertips dart around at virtuosic speed,…

Home Nigel Farage, launching Reform’s policies on illegal migrants, said: ‘The only way we’ll stop the boats is by detaining…

One of the pleasures of spending the summer in France is that I can turn aside from our national problems…

In 1979, XTC sang: ‘We’re only making plans for Nigel/ We only want what’s best for him.’ The song is…

Since, in the absence of border posts, people in the ancient world could come and go at will, refugees and…

By George There is a popular movement to fly St George’s flags from lampposts. The St George Cross was used…

Moore problems Sir: Many years ago a colleague warned me that I was so impossibly uncool that one day I…

In 1620, in the Staffordshire market town of Bilston, a teenage boy decided he didn’t much fancy going to school.…

As a snapshot of our country, you’ll be pressed to find anything quite so resonant as the one which depicts…

At the end of Sky News’s coverage of last year’s Notting Hill Carnival, its correspondent recited the usual list of…

If there is a hallmark of Keir Starmer’s leadership, it is a willingness to bash the left. For five years,…

The theme of my holiday reading has been the insidious ways in which the vanities and fetishes of rulers harm…

Prewar, they thought their future was secure, but death duties and heavy taxation brought a huge change in circumstance – to which some have valiantly responded. Pen portraits of peers and historical perspective bring this tale of diminishment to vivid life

You can easily draw a line from John Cage to Sonic Youth – but Elizabeth Aker’s book does not really tell you how

A debut novel with echoes of Kafka, Flaubert and the office sitcom, this is a tale of one man’s days on the treadmill of life that is both poignant and disconcerting

If a river can be considered a living thing, why not stones and rocks? They bear witness to thousands of years of history and have spoken to us long before the formation of language itself. We just need to learn to listen

Everyone who has ever lived came out of a woman’s body – a fact even more extraordinary when narrow hips and large skulls mean the human form is hardly precision engineered for such a feat

Slow travel is in vogue and with it the renaissance of the railways. And what better way to journey by night across borders in the company of strangers?

The Barchester Chronicles it isn’t, but this short and lively account of one of history’s footnotes reminds us that the culture wars existed long before TikTok and Twitter

The 16th-century playwright led a violent, tempestuous and clandestine short life but alone among his contemporaries he speaks to us in a familiar way

Visitors to the Victoria and Albert Museum’s new storehouse in Stratford’s Olympic Park are being enthralled by an atmospherically lit…

The theatre impresario Michael White rang me one day in 1964, and said he was presenting a play at the…

During lockdown, a friend and I moved into a flat that had a difficult relationship with the TV aerial. Ineptitude…

This isn’t going to be a piece celebrating the rich cultural tapestry of London’s Afro-Caribbean community, sombrely expressing the importance…

Chekhov with an English accent. That’s how Andrew Keatley’s play, The Gathered Leaves, begins. The setting is a country house…

The Roses is a remake of The War of the Roses (1989), the diabolically funny black bitter comedy that was…

Regarding Frederick Delius, how do we stand? In the 1930s, Sir Henry Wood believed that Proms audiences much preferred Delius…

Destiny was the first work commissioned under Anne-Louise Sarks’ directorship of the Melbourne Theatre Company and it’s appropriate that it…

I like a picnic weighted with history and class terror, which means Fortnum & Mason on Piccadilly, which is historical…

Somebody dies and his friends say ‘he passed’. Passed what? He didn’t pass. He failed. He took the most basic…

Charlie, my 17-year-old son, was hopeful about QPR’s chances this season. True, we managed to avoid relegation only by the…

Q. A good friend often cycles over when I invite him for drinks. The trouble is he insists on turning…

They used to be places that reeked of testosterone, sweat and male egos, their floors sticky with lager spilled by…

‘That’s a boy cow,’ said a woman in the train to a little girl, adding in an aside to an…

It has been quite some year for jockey-churning, the latest example being the mid-season decision by owner-breeder Imad Al Sagar…

‘Do you want the good news or the bad news about the Germans?’ I asked, and then I offered a…

For Competition 3414 you were invited to provide an extract from a well-known literary work rewritten to include appropriate product…

The vote to cut HECs debt just went through parliament. Clever politics targeting the youth vote yet all I remember…

A Speccie reader (Noel) wants to know if the media is using ‘decimated’ correctly, when a commenter calls on Hamas…