The ABC, through its glamour couple Sarah Ferguson and Tony Jones, did Tony Abbott two huge favours this past month.…

Who won the wooden spoon for obtuseness among the swarm of the ABC’s apologists for putting Zaky Mallah on Q&A?…

When you’re told by a Harley Street specialist that you’re not, as you had feared, about to cark it, you…

How the AWU’s fingers are in the Super pie

Straight white male victims of identity politics are speaking out about their fear of speaking out

There’s nothing wrong with rendering terrorists stateless

On the first anniversary of the Isis ‘caliphate’, the real winners are Iran

Mark Scott sang a very different tune to Rudd and Gillard

The only predictable aspect to this Ashes tour is Australia’s grumpy attitude

The cash machine queues are calm – for now. But where does it go from here?

The worst possible response to these horrible killings would be to abandon the country to the Islamists

The economist entrusted with reviving the North is a Goldman Sachs B-teamer who spouts airline-lounge nonsense

Few would have expected it before the start of the summer, but we have an Ashes worth looking forward to

Nato’s Exercise Noble Jump was an impressive sight – and a deeply ominous one

The people in your postbag as a newspaper columnist could not be more different from those who comment online

Drizzle, dressed salads and the failure to pack a spare gazebo – most of these are problems that can be solved

Not since the discovery of North Sea oil has the country had such an incredible opportunity

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Plus: the Woodstock vibe at Sweden’s annual political festival; and what Britain gets right about immigration

Plus: How many runways big airports need; and what Nicky Morgan probably doesn’t mean by ‘coasting’

The EU is pursuing just the sort of policy that took ancient Athens into deep trouble

From ‘Bogy-Mongering’, The Spectator, 3 July 1915: Of late there have been all sorts of dark hints and rumours as to…

Response to Michael Easson Sir: I have been afforded an opportunity to respond to the review of my book “The…

No prime minister will ever have better circumstances for changing the meaning of membership

Plus: Golden Dawn, the IMF, and ‘erotic capital’

The unpalatable truth is that they believe what they are doing is theologically right — and a sizeable proportion of the Islamic world would concur

I hear Chris Riddell’s lovely. I just hope he doesn’t engage in the same politically correct proselytising as his predecessors

Plus: Carolyn Fairbairn, new director-general of the CBI; and how long will Mark Carne last as head of Network Rail?

The Power Broker, Robert Caro’s classic biography of Robert Moses is a monument to a bureaucratic monster — and a style of life-writing that has almost died out

In The Boy Who Played with Fusion, Tom Clynes tells the extraordinary story of Taylor Wilson, the science genius who built a working nuclear fusion reactor aged 14

In One for the Money, Clinton Heylin reveals how musicians are constantly stealing songs from each other — and then suing for ownership

In Picturing the Apocalypse, Anthony and Natasha O’Hear examine the magnificent art that the Book of Revelation has inspired over the centuries

Francis Pike’s magnificent Hirohito’s War argues that misguided American policy in 1941 continues to reshape the Pacific theatre today

Benjamin Markovits’s novel You Don’t Have to Live Like This shows how a scheme to reclaim decayed Detroit unravels in kidnappings and vigilantism

Mosley’s autobiography ranges through Formula One, the Nazis, Labour politics, and an S&M orgy — to accusing a former Archbishop of Canterbury of ‘living off immoral earnings’

Brave Victorian eccentrics risked their lives and fortunes pioneering a reliable storm-warning system, as Peter Moore reveals in his gripping The Weather Experiment

The wonderfully funny, acute Renata Adler is almost as good an essayist as a novelist, as her collected non-fiction After the Tall Timber reveals

Kerry Handley’s riotously entertaining and perceptive Thrown makes something marvellous from the triumphs and disasters of fighters Sean Huffman and Erik Koch

On the eve of his 75th birthday, it's time to celebrate the musical contribution Ringo Starr made to the Fab Four

Plus: Paco Pena throws some jazz into the flamenco mix at Sadler's Wells

People found it hard to classify his wooden cases filled with bric-a-brac, but their influence - and charm - has lasted

Despite a few disappointments (notably Kanye West), James Delingpole's trip to Glastonbury is transformed by an encounter with The Who

The booers have ensured we focus on one scene, when in fact we should be talking about how lazy and ugly the rest of the production was

Plus: a 40-year-old play that will appeal to anyone whose parents spent the 1960s feuding and the 1970s decoupling

Asif Kapadia's new documentary is painful to watch but, like Senna, also gripping. And he doesn't shy away from pointing the finger of blame

And should we be more optimistic about the Arab Spring? The War that Changed the World, a new series on BBC World Service, offered the long-view on today's upheavals

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They’re just recovering in Adelaide from the sold-out success of the Cabaret Festival which was directed by the wonderful, endlessly…

I offended Prince Charles, danced in the bosom of the Queen of Denmark, and propositioned Selina Scott (she was having none of it)

When I’m feeling forward, I can take praise all day; when I’m feeling reticent I recoil in horror

I’m about to pay the best part of a million quid for two up two down I’ll have to pour myself into

On a sunny weekday, Brighton beats Paris hands down

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Last week, world champion Magnus Carlsen suffered a devastating defeat in the first round of the Stavanger super tournament when…

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In Competition No. 2904 you were invited to take as your first line ‘There’s a breathless hush on the centre…

The unclued lights (two of three words and two of two words) can be preceded by the same word and…

The unclued lights include at least four Os (IV Os), and other clued solutions contain two or three. OROONOKO at…

There is pleasure in the self-denial, but all the joy has gone

For years after people receive this year-long influx of funds, they earn more, own more, work more and are happier

Plus: My 40th birthday is coming up and I realise I’ve got too many friends

One might think that everything had been there for ever, which in a way it has

This piece of business jargon has deep devotional roots