Before they were even elected – and in fervent hope that they wouldn’t be – this magazine warned that an…

Oppositions must oppose

Hydrogen to the rescue

In conception, content and consequences

Rock dinosaurs wake up to woke with a religious zeal

Our politicians are crackers

Subsidised apartheid is no solution

Empower the people

Census facts unsettle the Voice fantasy

One year into the war, where does Ukraine go from here?

Ukraine will not compromise

Don’t let the killjoys ban greyhound racing

Japan’s plans for an anti-China alliance

Matthew Parris and Nigel Biggar discuss colonialism

The dangerous myth of degrowth

To listen to many environmental campaigners, you would think that Britain was a toxic wasteland. They tell us that our…

The final countdown The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved its ‘Doomsday Clock’ from 100 seconds to midnight to 90 seconds…

There’s a new default conversation for Tory MPs at any Westminster drinks party: is this 1992 or 1997? Is the…

Once upon a time, a fox with a large bushy tail and a disingenuous smile changed his name from Reynard…

I have a puzzle for the Metropolitan police – a mystery that only they can solve. Why, if the Met…

How many black cops does it take to commit a racist hate crime? The latest correct answer is ‘five’. That’s…

Does a change of chief executive at Unilever, the British-based shampoo-to-Marmite multinational, signal the demise of the fashion for corporate…

Governments and the woke elite are falling over themselves with taxpayer and shareholder money to promote the seriously dangerous proposal…

Salman Rushdie returns to India with a full-throated mix of history, magic realism and dazzling storytelling, says James Walton

The heartbroken father endlessly relives his son’s suicide, raking over every moment of Jack’s battle with depression and drug addiction

Pythagoras, Euclid and Archimedes viewed mathematics in a very different way to us, but Reviel Netz helps us glimpse the minds of antiquity’s great thinkers

Criminal syndicates, corrupt officials and faceless assassins now control the increasingly depleted rainforest, killing or enslaving all who stand in their way

In homage to St Magnus, the stonemason Beatrice Searle carries a heavy load from Orkney to Trondheim, following an ancient pilgrims’ way

Stella Levi, an Auschwitz survivor, recalls the vibrant, long-established Jewish community that existed in the Dodecanese before the Nazi deportations in 1944

When Florence Nightingale was joined in Scutari by groups of volunteer nuns, tensions among them soon imperilled the entire female nursing experiment

In 1993, Natasha Lance Rogoff was tasked with introducing the American puppets to Russia in the hope of cultivating peace, love and understanding

Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty’s thrilling mission to save the lives of 6,500 Jews and Allied soldiers in Nazi-occupied Rome doesn’t quite get the memorial it deserves

Brutality might be expected of a people who fed each other to lions – but it extended even to the elephants the Romans regarded as soulmates

Some decades ago when David Foster Wallace was proceeding to write the great confounding masterpiece of his generation Infinite Jest…

The Last of Us is widely being hailed as the best video game adaptation ever. Maybe. But it’s still a…

Sound of the Underground is a drag show involving a handful of cross-dressers who spend the opening 15 minutes telling…

A classical concert programme is like a set menu, and for this palate the most tempting orchestral offering in the…

I can’t work out if Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, which stars Brendan Fraser as a man weighing 600lb – that’s…

Folk is the Schiphol of Scottish music. Eventually, every curious traveller passes through. From arena rockers to rappers, traditional music…

In a national vote on which county’s landscape best embodies Englishness, every county would presumably vote for itself. But when…

Revd Steve Morris talks to former Damned drummer Rat Scabies about his journey from punk rock to the Holy Grail

Apparently, Melbourne will soon overtake Sydney as Australia’s largest city. I’m not saying this is a good or bad thing,…

Jeremy Butterfield (the former editor-in-chief of Collins dictionaries) has written recently about nursey rhymes, and how they teach the basics…

Seven unclued lights (all real words) are 36s minus one letter. A further 36 formed from the omitted letters will…

Restaurant and dog years are similar, and so the Wolseley, which is 20 this year, seems as if it has…

If you think the Calcutta Cup is just any old rugby match between England and Scotland, then the latest in…

When we were little we used to go on holiday to the same place in Brittany, a picturesque, quiet coastal…

About six months ago I was contacted by Big Brother Watch, the civil liberties campaign group, and asked if I…

Feeling lucky always, I assumed that chemotherapy would be the piece of cake that some had predicted for me. They…