It remains to be seen whether the actions taken by the Morrison government in the last two weeks will have…

What with all the monumental stuff-ups by the public authorities in the campaign against coronavirus, it is not surprising that…

There are just not enough deaths to justify the draconian reaction to the coronavirus

The trans agenda is not for me. And I’m trans.

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The Black Swan to Australia’s rescue

The heroes of yesteryear have been supplanted by woke snowflakes

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I arrived on Novolazarevskaya base on the northern coast of Antarctica in a Russian plane, flown by an ex-USSR air…

Is there nothing people won’t panic-buy during this crisis? Having stripped shelves of food and toilet roll, shoppers are now…

Covid-19 and the fog of data

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Home Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, contracted the coronavirus disease Covid-19, as did Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary. The Prince…

It must be infuriating for those who see the Prime Minister as a prisoner of a rigid elitist mindset that…

People power Boris Johnson said that the reaction to the coronavirus crisis showed ‘There really is such a thing as…

Corona mysteries Sir: John Lee highlights the issue of dying of seasonal flu vs dying of coronavirus when assessing attributable…

‘How are you bearing up?’ ‘Is everyone terrified?’ ‘What’s the mood?’ These are the questions concerned family and friends are…

The failures of Britain’s pandemic planning have been brutally exposed in the past few weeks. The scandalous lack of protective…

First impressions matter in politics. Once the public have made their mind up about a politician, they rarely change it.…

Welcome, then, to a country in which the police send drones to humiliate people taking a walk and dried pasta…

‘I am a columnist for the Daily Telegraph,’ I began a text message to an NHS executive last week. Due…

Comically, Chinese Communist party officials have speculated that Covid-19 was planted by the US army. Yet a respectable conspiracy theorist…

The suspension of the residential property market is disheartening for those who were hoping to buy a first flat or…

A psychiatrist once told me that it takes one’s subconscious about three weeks to catch up with a significant life…

‘Shut up — don’t you know there’s a war on?’ Strong hints of that attitude have emerged in recent weeks,…

Conservative estimates place the number of those in America with more than one spouse as up to 100,000, but the…

Lamorna Ash came to the fishing port of Newlyn in south-west Cornwall to write a memoir. This is not unusual.…

On a winter’s night an artist of moderately exalted reputation and in lateish middle age journeys across London, away from…

From the kitchen of her apartment on the Quai de la Tournelle in Paris, the journalist and broadcaster Agnès Poirier…

How can you recover the teenage girl you were? Not just recall the memories and recount the events — this…

Maggie O’Farrell is much possessed by death. Her first novel, After You’d Gone (2000), chronicled the inner life of a…

Don Galvin and Mimi Blayney married in December 1944. It was a shotgun wedding. They had been high school sweethearts.…

Micah Mortimer, the strikingly unproactive protagonist of Anne Tyler’s 23rd novel, is a man of such unswerving routine that his…

Wordsworth’s reputation has been too long in decline, says Tom Williams. In the space of a decade he transformed English poetry, and his earlier works remain astonishing

The beautiful Greek island of Hydra became home to a bohemian community of expats in the 1960s, including the Canadian…

To begin not at the beginning but at the end of the beginning. Or rather, to begin at another beginning,…

‘How much of our village do we burn to contain this?’. That was the chilling headline of an article in…

As Joseph Haydn was getting out of bed on the morning of 10 May 1809, a cannonball landed in his…

There had been some question about whether Taylor Swift’s Netflix special would actually appear. Last year it seemed that the…

With theatres shut, radio must lighten the darkness. The Guilty Feminist is a wildly popular podcast performed by Deborah Frances-White…

Some years ago I was invited to the British Grand Prix at Silverstone courtesy of a watch manufacturer. As freebies…

This film contains flying children, time travel and a sand monster that lives under a beach — yet the most…

Six months ago I published a book about travelling to look at works of art. One such journey involved a…

Holed up in her sixth-floor London flat, Laura Freeman finds solace in the art of the hermit

In Competition No. 3142 you were invited to supply a review on TripAdvisor that has been spiced up with a…

Spring sense, caressing sunshine: last week, London enjoyed village cricket weather. Even in normal circumstances, the season would not have…

My husband has special ‘throwing socks’. They are a rolled-up pair of woolly hiking socks. He does not hike. He…

Next time there is a highly deserved round of public applause for NHS workers, do add one additional clap for…

Asked, after his Imperial Aura’s impressive win in the Northern Trust Novices’ Handicap Chase at the Cheltenham Festival, if he…

I’m finding it harder than I thought to concentrate while playing bridge online. And not just because my two children…

Unclued lights are anagrams of ten of a kind. Elsewhere, ignore an accent. Across 9 A model cure fixed skin…

Q. Mary, what percentage of cleaners’ normal wages should we pay them when they can’t come in for the foreseeable…

One of the paradoxes of the coronavirus crisis is that the need for public scrutiny of government policy has never…

The spaniel curled up in her basket with one of my shoes, one of his socks and a packet of…

A variation from the game above. Although White is a pawn down, he can rustle up decisive counterplay with one…

With my signed and dated laissez-passer in my pocket, I trotted down to the village to see if I could…

Look at it this way: we’re all doing Desert Island Discs nowadays, and unless you’ve got the bug, it’s a…

The novels are A Modern Utopia (anagram of AORTAE IMPOUND 17/5), The Time Machine (HEATHEN/MIMETIC 22/27), Tono-Bungay (BATON/YOUNG 29/31) and…

Would you slice a book in two? I learned of this peculiar practice in January, and I can’t fault its…