Every pandemic has a silver lining. This week, we were spared the spectacle of Davos Man (and Woman) jetting into…

If Australia had not been blessed with its small black community, we would have had to invent them. And we…

The PM should reinstate the policies Turnbull tore up

The mining tycoon’s hydrogen hype doesn’t add up

Activists are trampling the rights of biological women and girls

Biden is backing climate catastrophists leaving Australia isolated

The persecution of lockdown sceptics hurts everyone

The tyrants of tolerance attack the right of Christians to freedom of religion

Humanities courses are entrenching division in society

The free world needs him

Doc Martens are one of those quintessentially British things that, like the royal family and lorries queuing on the M20,…

A few of the hip young things sitting along the Lisbon quayside turned their heads my way as my walking…

Why wealth taxes don’t work

Anne Longfield, the Children’s Commissioner, on why schools must reopen

Why we need a museum of British premiership

Will Britain’s orchestras survive the Brexit exodus?

The sex abuse scandal rocking the French elite

Closing the borders worked Down Under. Could it work here?

The vaccine wars are turning nasty

The Black Lives Matter website (different from the new Black Liberation Movement) mostly presents an image of an organisation of…

Home Supplies of the Pfizer vaccine (made in Belgium) were feared to be at risk from a declaration by the…

New normal Why have so many people started saying ‘normalcy’ rather than ‘normality’? — Normalcy has been traced back to…

Canterbury tales Sir: Having opened my copy of The Spectator upon arrival in the post, I read your article ‘Welby’s…

I start the week with someone throwing faeces at me. I thought people were supposed to clap for doctors these…

Who would have thought, this time last year, that the British government would be planning to detain British nationals at…

The online fashion retailer Boohoo is buying Debenhams without its stores and staff, confirming the demise of the high street.…

A seemingly obscure battle in an ecclesiastical court could threaten the security of every historic monument in the care of…

As events recede, they change. When Donald Trump’s unhinged endgame culminated in a popular assault on the Capitol, most Americans…

A common sight across Britain these past ten months has been those rainbow flags fluttering in urban and village streets:…

I was in the kitchen preparing the family’s dinner when the inauguration of Joe Biden was on TV, so I…

This is a crucial year for the UK’s two most important relationships. The Anglo-American alliance, our strongest diplomatic and security…

It is remarkable how quickly the cause of transgenderism has moved from being a strange object at the back of…

Francis Spufford was already admired as a non-fiction writer when he published his prize-winning first novel, On Golden Hill, in…

In the summer of 2012, a man was walking near Jabal Shashabo, a Syrian rebel enclave, when he spotted a…

Can you remember when you heard about 9/11? Chances are you’ll be flooded instantly with memories — not only where…

As a child, I loved the Ladybird ‘People at Work’ series. I had the ones on the fireman, the policeman,…

Like this author, I was happily snowbound at a beloved grandparent’s house during the big freeze that began on Boxing…

It seems to have become a virtual orthodoxy of the academic and publishing worlds that history and fiction now have…

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an ambitious, passionate, determined woman – not the sad-eyed invalid of legend, says Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

The aftermath of Australia Day seems like an appropriate time to watch On the Beach, for a belated first time,…

Earlier this month, the opera world sadly absorbed the news of the death of Elijah Moshinsky. Born in Shanghai in…

With the arts world still largely in hibernation, the launch of a big podcast is as close as we get…

Southwark Playhouse is beating the latest lockdown with a zingy new musical about social media. The performers, Francesca Forristal and…

DeLorean: Back from the Future was one of those documentaries — for me at least — that takes a story…

Galleries are awash with gimmicky paintings that look like they’ve been designed by algorithm. Dean Kissick on the rise of zombie figuration

Just before the outbreak of the second world war a discovery was made in a riverside field at Sutton Hoo…

Grade: A What a miracle the KLF were: an elaborate practical joke at the expense of the music industry, seemingly…

I’m still waiting for the Royal Opera to step up. Nearly a year into the Covid crisis and what do…

Has any speech by an American politician ever received more attention in the Australian media than Joe Biden’s inauguration speech?…

Every other day some minor celebrity complains of being ‘trolled’ on social media. The answer is to get off social…

‘I began my escape from the communist Czechoslovakia 42 years ago, on Sunday, September 1, 1968. According to Wikipedia, I…

Gstaad Martha Gellhorn was a long-legged blonde American writer and journalist who became Papa Hemingway’s third and penultimate wife. She…

As an ambitious journalist making my way in Fleet Street, I dreamed of becoming a Mid-Atlantic Man. Tom Wolfe came…

Ten unclued lights comprise a septet with a common theme.   Across 1 Running article perhaps subject to trial? (7)…

Suzanne Moore, the Telegraphcolumnist, found it ‘deeply annoying’ when perhaps five years ago she noticed people putting ‘Kind regards’ at…

Q. There is a Tube stop next door to my place of work but I now walk in each day.…

In March last year, the world made an interesting discovery. We found that a high proportion of knowledge-work could be…

When bridge moved from actual tables to virtual tables last March, it quickly became clear that cheating was ruining the…

Unclued lights were games played in I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue: SOUND CHARADES, SWANEE KAZOO, CHEDDAR GORGE, PICK UP…

In Competition No. 3183 you were invited to submit a short story entitled ‘My Year of Living [insert adverb of…

Kokkoris–Kavalek, Athens 1968. Kavalek’s next move initiated a beautiful forced mating sequence. What did he play? Answers should be emailed…

‘Anything you want?’ says Catriona on her way out of the house to go to the shop. I’m standing at…

An everlasting lightbulb brighter than the Dog Star was installed in the street lamp outside my house one morning as…

When Napoleon III proclaimed himself Emperor of France in 1852, he unwittingly kickstarted quality wine production in Chile and Argentina.…