It’s the latest mad leftist doctrine, as insisted on by the well-meaning and ever-so progressive elites, and it runs something…

Wives, daughters and the woke

Putting us on the road back to serfdom

A census of the zeitgeist

Iran’s tentacles threaten the free world

Pro-Palestinian protests - who pays for the police?

Who exactly has benefited from the billions in indigenous welfare?

Or is Labor policy complicit with Hamas?

Don’t mention the pandemic

How Hayden exposed the fake republicans

A raw slice of classic leftist lunacy

What is the point of the Covid Inquiry? It should be to establish which parts of the government’s pandemic response…

After three weeks of airstrikes, Israel has begun its ground invasion of the Gaza Strip. The goal, in the words…

John Cleese enjoys tough questions. He’s currently touring America with An Evening with the Late John Cleese, and a substantial…

Israel has made the first, rather tentative, moves of its ground operation against Hamas – but there’s nothing tentative about…

There’s a online blacklist of men you should avoid dating and I’m on it. I discovered this over the summer…

Something strange is happening with teenagers’ mental health. In Britain, the US, Australia and beyond, the same trend can be…

For once, Nick Clegg had a point. At the start of this week’s Artificial Intelligence summit at Bletchley Park, our…

Call for common justice Sir: Rod Liddle’s piece on the true desires of Palestinians was rare in its acceptance of…

This year, in its annual Supreme Court moot trial of a famous ancient figure, the charity Classics for All charged…

This could have been the week that Keir Starmer buckled under pressure from his party and called for a ceasefire…

  Daugavpils   You can tell quite a bit about a place by the number of national flags on display.…

From abroad I’ve returned to a country where, in language to which the word ‘shrill’ hardly does justice, fellow British…

A friend of mine was recently doing business with the Qataris. Nothing strange there: a lot of people have in…

Much misfortune the woebegone couldn’t have seen coming: a raging fire in the house next door that spreads to yours.…

For as long as we have been human, powerful chemicals in plants have provided us with stimulants, analgesics – and the means of murder

Authors reviewed include Jinny Blom on design, Jenny Joseph on scented plants, Maury C. Flannery on herbaria and Francis Pryor on his Fenland haven

Despite the digitisation of everything, many of us still choose to jot down thoughts and sketches on paper, and would be bereft without a notebook to hand

Conrad’s classic is updated in this sinister tale of the US government’s involvement in a morally suspect virtual reality programme

In his latest volume of biography, Clinton Heylin spares us no details about Dylan’s misogyny and cranky obsessions during his almighty midlife crisis

Provided it wasn’t actually poisonous, a beefed-up burgundy in the 1970s was often preferred to a weedy pure vintage pinot noir, says Rebecca Gibb

Wrenched from their parents and familiar surroundings, the young refugees found safety in Britain, but were tolerated rather than cherished, says Andrea Hammel

If Jon Fosse’s novels are experimental, they are experiments in exhausting banality, says Philip Hensher

Recommendations from Andrew Motion, Jonathan Sumption, A.N. Wilson, Andrea Wulf, Peter Frankopan, Clare Mulley and many others. To be continued next week

You know the year is starting to come to an end when a new production of A Christmas Carol is…

‘Only with women’ is a phrase used by more cynical TV types for a show that takes something that’s been…

‘You cannot begin by calling me France’s most famous living artist!’ Thus Sophie Calle objected to the first line of…

You won’t see two more contrasting shows this year than Corinne Bailey Rae performing her album Black Rainbows and Brian…

The name of Ditchling used to be synonymous with Eric Gill, but since he was outed as an abuser of…

The documentary Beyond Utopia follows various families as they attempt to flee North Korea. It is eye-opening and outstanding. In…

There’s something mesmerising about watching a good mimic. And Aimée Kelly, who plays fetish photographer Irina Sturges in Soho Theatre’s…

Lyonesse by Penelope Skinner takes a while to get going. The central character, Elaine, is a washed-up British actress (Kristin…

Rupert Christiansen on the cult of Callas

Now that the referendum is behind us, we must start doing something about Australia’s burgeoning ICE problem. You wouldn’t know…

They say that in war truth is the first casualty – and the language of truth is certainly being butchered…

In most children’s stories, the good characters live happily ever after. Works suitable for older readers tend to greater realism.…

Once or twice, when on a crowded overnight flight, I have taken a sneaky stroll through the different cabins for…

I was disappointed to learn that Rishi Sunak has reconsidered his opposition to a bill banning conversion therapy. Not because…

With families chatting in the seats around me, a young girl knitting across the aisle, I gripped the arm rests.…

It’s week eight of the installation of a cheap Ikea kitchen in my flat, and an Albanian builder is slumped…