Biology. Mathematics. Economics. English. History. Physics. Geology. Australians of a certain age will remember having had these subjects drummed into…

If you thought we’d finally left clown world, think again. For months, the legal machinery of New South Wales geared…

Labor not dancing with the one who brung ’em

Albo and Chalmers’ tax changes reveal a deeper truth about progressive politics: an enduring suspicion of profit and entrepreneurial success

The politicised public service is booming

Who’s more dangerous, Iran or Isis?

The yawning gap between essence and pretence

Dancing to the pontiff’s new tune

Those who planned it are still taken seriously

Teals drift towards their own extinction event

The Viceroy would approve

I was born into a sternly Presbyterian culture. Politically, I’m more Orange than Donald Trump’s skin tone. But today I…

The Shetland Islands The SNP have had better weeks. It’s strange to think that it was only this month that…

Moscow is coming under direct drone attack, the Russian economy is creaking, patriotic bloggers are ever more apocalyptic in their…

Mocktails. Even the name sounds dodgy. Who is this apparently innocuous canned drink mocking, pray? Probably you, if you’ve shelled…

Nothing can prepare you for the death of your father because, by definition, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime event. You have these…

Unlike last year, when drought caused many curlews in the Durham dales to delay breeding, this has been a great…

Europe’s largest hub of the performing arts, which great musicians the world over once called home, is now a grim…

Sam Altman, the co-founder of OpenAI, which launched ChatGPT, is not overweight. Gay tech billionaires rarely are. Even so, as…

Geoff Capes, two-time winner of The World’s Strongest Man competition, weighing in at 27 stone, was a budgie fancier. He…

Home Sir Tony Blair, the former Labour prime minister, said in a 5,700-word essay: ‘The Labour party is playing with…

The first mention of Westminster came in a charter of 785, attributed to King Offa, granting land in ‘that terrible…

Money is a pagan god because it has value only as long as people believe it does. Refuse to believe,…

Arsenal’s triumph in finally winning the Premier League again after 22 long, often eyeball-wrenchingly tortuous years has gone down like…

Greco-Roman wrestling Sir: Rod Liddle suggests that some, perhaps many, middle-class voters on the right or centre right are deterred…

Nothing illustrates the challenge facing Reform UK better than the strained interview Danny Kruger gave to the Today programme on…

Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, stands explicitly in the tradition of Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum 135 years ago.…

I was as appalled as I dare say many of you to discover that Reform’s candidate in the forthcoming Makerfield…

What would you say if your spouse bought a luxury campervan? I know what I would say – something along…

There is something infinitely melancholy in hearing what political ambition does to perfectly nice people. I awoke on Monday to…

On Petersfield station, southbound side, there’s a huge billboard advertising a tropical holiday with a photo of a beautiful couple…

Is the flotation of Elon Musk’s SpaceX venture on the US Nasdaq exchange a beacon for the future of earthly…

Hennigan’s doomed protagonist Sean surveys the wreckage of his past life as he drinks himself into oblivion

Kate McLoughlin explores the various silences in English literature – of rapture, intimacy, failure, avoidance and inarticulable grief

No one today can unmask pomposity and self-obsession as devastatingly as Aherne did in the guise of the faux-naive Mrs Merton

The Bentham brothers’ invention is strikingly reflected in the ‘precisely engineered system of surveillance and optimisation’ at Amazon’s ‘exploitative’ fulfilment centres, says Henry Snow

The German Dadaist developed his own brand of anti-rational art, transforming the junk of everyday life into vivid collages

Banished to the Canadian Prairies, Harry Cane lives on the land alone, except for secret nightly visits from his long-term lover and brother-in-law, Paul

The King found his minister ‘very socialistic’, and was especially outraged when Churchill, on moving to the Admiralty in 1911, suggested calling a ship HMS Oliver Cromwell

Mary Beard offers an intelligent defence of the time-honoured subject amid calls to denounce it as a tool of racism, fascism or imperialism

Over more than a century the concert venue has hosted royalty and refugees, broken taboos, reinforced traditions and kept its doors open through two world wars and a global pandemic

By the time he died, aged 39, the German-Polish polymath had travelled the world, mastered ten languages, witnessed the French Revolution and campaigned tirelessly for human rights

Anyone who knows the Sixties can easily be reminded of the beauty and the authority of Sidney Poitier. The MTC…

Northern Ballet commits itself almost exclusively to dance as a storytelling medium, and its weakness historically has been to home…

The prospect of the new Paul McCartney album does not set my pulses racing, still less that of the Beatles…

It was odd, walking around Camden Town during Desertfest – the annual weekend-long celebration of doom, stoner and sludge metal…

When Rachel Reeves became Chancellor she found a lavatory in her private suite which had been used by Churchill in…

I can’t see why anyone wouldn’t enjoy Tuner. It’s a heist caper as well as a romance and while it…

I approached this exhibition like a conscientious critic, poring over the catalogue, the signage, making notes… And then, about halfway…

James Graham has said in interviews that he regards Gareth Southgate as ‘a hero for the ages’. Even if he…

Grade: A– What, more Martinu? It feels like no time since the Pavel Haas Quartet was persuading us that there…

Should we hop on a call? Let’s touch base. Let’s take this offline. Let’s circle back to your last slide…

The deeper you look at how our civilisation has evolved since the Enlightenment, the brighter the deception shines. The first…

When ‘lie’ was banned by the Speaker of the House as unparliamentary language, I wondered if it was time to…

We all did mad things during the first Covid lockdown. For some it was getting a dog or starting up…

I broke into a skip last week as I walked up the steps of Carlton House Terrace towards the Turf…

What a treat it was to escape to Cyprus for some sun and a last-minute mini-break. I left the builder…

I’ve spent the last few days composing a response to the government’s consultation on whether to introduce a statutory minimum…

Q. When I left university I set up a WhatsApp group with several male friends to cover our interest in…

‘Italians are not inventing any new words,’ the head of the Italian language academy told the Telegraph. ‘They’re not creating…

Claridge’s grew nine storeys in the last decade: it’s a metaphor. The ornamental 1897 castle on Brook Street has expanded…

Provence In the hope of renting out the main cave house during the summer, I’ve been clearing to make room…

Looking forward to the World Cup? I do hope so. You can complain and say that a gargantuan tournament without…