The year 2024 will go down in the history books as the year in which Donald Trump triumphed over the…

The spirit of Christmas came to me last week in a very real but unexpected way. I had given myself…

Labor plays hide and seek with the debt and deficit

Labor regulations are driving businesses broke or offshore

Australians must recognise the ‘enemy within’

Jim Chalmers is Australia’s answer to Kamala Harris

2025 will be a good year in the US, Canada and Australia

Lessons were learned but the heroes must be recognised

Labor has drifted a long way from its working-class roots

Brad Battin has his work cut out to make Melbourne marvellous again

Both Trump and Hegseth have them in their sights

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The world appears to be turning on its axis – and moving hard to the right. The New World is tilting hardest.…

Two things come to mind when I think about visitors books. The first is the memory of leaving the home…

For a politician known for his ability to shock, Donald Trump managed to outdo himself with his baseless claim during…

When I was a teenager, my closest friend, Henry, would vanish into the Shropshire Hills over the hunting season’s weekends.…

Professor Jordan Peterson is a Canadian psychologist, author and commentator whose latest book, We Who Wrestle with God, is about…

Before he agrees to be interviewed, He Jiankui has one request: that he is introduced as a ‘gene editing pioneer’.…

New year predictions are always rash, but it feels as though one aspect of the story of 2025 can already…

Home Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, said that the party now had more members than the Conservatives. On…

I was in Sweden a few weeks ago, where my music was presented in Stockholm in the most recent International…

Free thinking Sir: Your leading article (‘Article of faith’, 14 December) appears to have forgotten the connection between rationalism and…

The Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, and his chosen Attorney-General, Baron Hermer, both professional lawyers, seem to take the view…

Lying in bed pissed on Boxing Day night, I was visited by the ghost of Christmas Future, dressed in a…

On Christmas Day, 12 million people watched the will-they-won’t-they couple Smithy and Nessa finally marry after 17 years in the…

At the beginning of the spring term of my second year at university, a French boy called Xavier looked up…

Headed for ‘the worst of all worlds’ is not where any of us would wish to find ourselves at the…

Of the collection’s 14 mesmerising tales, two in particular stand out: a hallucination of nuclear apocalypse and a requiem for Japan’s war dead

University students immersed in drug-and-group-sex and online gaming reveal the dark side of Buenos Aires

Quite possibly. But racism remains all too real today – even though half the British population deny it exists

A group of idealistic activists is betrayed by a charismatic newcomer who dazzles with skill and charm – and gets away with murder. Repeatedly

The moment Sonny heard the voice of the girl he employed as a cleaner, both their fortunes changed – and two years later the couple would be greeted by 5,000 screaming fans in New York

Sir Bernard Mandeville certainly revelled in mischief-making; but his one simple idea – that human beings are animals – seems unremarkable today

Rachel Cooke’s spry anthology includes fiction, poetry, memoir, speeches, obituaries, letters and even comics – The Four Marys from Bunty

The brilliant physicist’s warning to her contemporaries not to carry respect for great men to the point of idolatry fell on deaf ears

There are a thousand ways of celebrating the Christmas holiday that are culture specific but have a universal appeal. You…

Sir Antonio Pappano began 2024 as music director of the Royal Opera and ended as chief conductor of the London…

Towards the end of the British Museum’s Silk Roads show, there is a selection of treasures found in England. Among…

Grade: A+ In a desperate wish to avoid the appellation of a derided genre, this young man from Asheville, North…

The Last Days of Liz Truss? is a one-woman show about the brief interregnum between Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak.…

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale? Most subsidised theatres hanker for…

If your heart sinks at the prospect of a thriller series starring Keira Knightley as a highly trained undercover agent…

We Live in Time is a rom-com (of sorts), starring Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield. They have terrific chemistry and…

The Enlightenment is back. Despite the best efforts of the past decade of handwringing about cultural imperialism and wailing over…

Like many Speccie readers I was shocked by the public expressions of anti-Semitism which blighted the closing months of 2024.…

The verb ‘to unsee’ turns up as a snappy, or trendy, way of saying that something is unforgettable—in a bad…

Hallelujah, he’s back. What we needed to take racing’s attention off the miseries of inadequate prize money, shrinking attendances and…

‘We don’t have an appointment for you!’ yelled the woman sitting behind the reception hatch. My 87-year-old father stared back…

It’s probably haram to quote Cecil Rhodes these days, but he was bang on when he said: ‘Remember that you…

You would have to be living a very sheltered life not to have noticed that the Premier League this season…

I see this column as an essay on cultural polarisation: artisanal butter can only take you so far into wisdom.…

Q. A kind villager gave us a jolly circular tin of sweets for Christmas. We are both overweight and would…

One of the biggest regrets of my life was saying yes when Jo Johnson asked if I wanted to be…