Could this be a turning point in Australia’s fortunes? In the space of two weeks we have seen two superb…

The Managerial Class Recently I spoke at the Sydney Institute on the subject of George Orwell’s justly famous essay ‘Politics…

Government hasn’t got a clue about the economics of renting

Tony Abbott’s burning passion

NAB loses the plot

Free speech is dead in Australia

A net positive for the Tories at next year’s election

Victorians have been through hell

Preventing more flights is conceptually crazy

A conference to stop the radical destruction of our country

Far from being a good bloke, our Prime Minister is a hard-left radical

What’s to stop us leaving the ECHR?

The new Energy Secretary on net zero and her bond with the PM

Was a Guardian Blind Date the answer?

Should Ukraine hold a general election next year?

The Aboriginal politician leading the charge against Australia’s disastrous referendum

It’s not the cost that matters, but how it’s framed

The Conservatives gather in Manchester this weekend for what may well be their last hurrah as a governing party. Bookmakers…

A long tradition in the Liddle household on a Saturday morning is to read aloud sections from the Guardian Weekend…

‘If aliens attacked Earth, do you think we would be safer under Joe Biden or Donald Trump?’ That’s a question…

Adulthood was once determined by age, but now we’ve extended childhood far beyond the teenage years. If the government gets its…

Long-time readers may recall that I take a special interest in the art of corruption. And this week America has…

The UK seems on the brink of a ‘psychedelic renaissance’ – but, stripped of shamanic ritual and sanitised for medicinal purposes, will psilocybin retain its power?

The demonisation of the state of Israel is basically an anti-Semitic mutation ‘evolving out of reach’, argues Jake Wallis Simons, the editor of the Jewish Chronicle

When Allied forces landed at Salerno on 9 September, they expected an easy run to Rome. But the intelligence proved dangerously faulty, as James Holland explains

The second volume of Knausgaard’s trilogy serves as a prequel to the first, tracing the origins of Norway’s ominous new celestial body

More than 100 interviews with surviving detainees and former prison workers reveal how profoundly shocking President Assad’s regime continues to be

For decades, undereducated girls were thwarted before they even started in the workplace, living in the slipstream of men and drip-fed with a sense of their own uselessness

The neuroscientist Camilla Nord places considerable emphasis on scanning technology, but has disappointingly little to suggest in the way of effective new treatments

Jane Glover follows the rapturous Wolfgang around Venice, Bologna, Florence and Naples on three journeys that would change the young composer’s life

The world would never be quite the same again after we first glimpsed the casino of Royale-les-Eaux at three in the morning, says Philip Hensher

It’s interesting to see that Mel Gibson, no less, is in the blood and violence TV streamer The Continental which…

Aaron S. Watkin, an affable bearded Canadian, is the new artistic director of English National Ballet. He arrives from Dresden,…

What would you say is the most successful comic-book series in history? If you’re thinking Tintin you’re not even close.…

Ken Loach has said The Old Oak will be his last film – he’s 87; the golf course probably beckons.…

The first episode of George Osborne and Ed Balls’s new podcast, Political Currency, opened with an old clip of the…

In David Alden’s production of Peter Grimes, the mob assembles before the music has even started – silhouetted at the…

Claudia Massie on the spectacular new galleries that showcase the best of Scottish art for the first time

The word humble comes from the Latin humilis, or humus, meaning literally, soil or ground, a priest recently revealed in…

Every so often I like to share with you new words being added to dictionaries. Dictionary.com has just added 566…

Origin City is a good name for this restaurant, whether it knows it or not. It is at West Smithfield,…

There is, as the saying goes, more than one way to skin a cat. The same could be said –…

At last the Ryder Cup is here – well, in Rome – and with it Europe’s biennial chance to stick…

Trying to work in my garden shed at this time of year is tricky. I will be crouched over my…

Queueing behind a young woman in the supermarket I became fascinated by the items she had placed on the conveyor…