‘Do no harm’ is the supposed motto of our medical profession, although you wouldn’t have known it if you landed…

‘Australia has become a … how you say … shit-show, no?’ This was my first interaction upon arriving in Slovakia…

Bungling, bumbling, bonkers Bowen

Clowning around overseas with Bowen and Wong

Allan’s Treaty Bill will entrench racial division

Australia’s looming economic disaster

Here’s what’s truly shocking

How the Muslim Brotherhood’s agenda has infiltrated the West

The gathering storm of the over-educated

Elephant in the climate room

You’re destroying Australia

Finally, some good news from Oxford. The university has recently been through a gloomy patch. It slipped from the top…

Nicolas Sarkozy, former president of the French Republic, has been convicted and sentenced to five years for a ‘criminal conspiracy…

How to react to Nigel Farage’s suggestion that immigrants are killing and eating swans? You can react like LBC’s Iain…

Kemi Badenoch is in ebullient form. She promises the Conservative party conference, which begins this weekend in Manchester, will be…

Like every Tory Boy, I had a Margaret Thatcher poster. I put it up when I was 15 and had…

Like our former ambassador to the United States, Lord Mandelson, I was once vetted by the security services. My brush…

The European Union, guardian and champion of democracy, rightly takes a dim view when ruling parties ban their opponents, refuse…

Colossal, a $10 billion biotech firm with a knack of grabbing headlines, has announced it is on the way to…

Summer is icumen to its end, but my peach tree yielded a fine crop this year, though most of it…

Moscow mule Sir: While visiting Russia, James Delingpole learned from the patriarchate’s press officer that under communism the Russian Church…

There was a time when the serious business of concert-giving closed down for the summer. Artists were expected to take…

Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, addressed delegates at the Labour party conference in Liverpool who had been issued…

Questions of identity permeate our politics. What is it to be English, to be British? The Prime Minister sought to…

Park life Locals were angered by the closing off of 1,500 acres of Windsor Great Park to create a secure…

University term has started, and even more students are being taught in even larger classes. But to what end? Education…

A friend runs a small factory employing 60 skilled workers. He exports industrial components worldwide, competing with Europe for quality…

It amuses me that the two main parties most averse to the idea of honours, monarchy, chivalry etc are led…

The Labour conference in Liverpool was a curiously upbeat affair. Much of the good spirit came from schadenfreude at the…

It is almost a century since Ronald Knox wrote his ‘Ten Commandments’ for detective fiction. Most of them still hold…

For years, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) has wrapped itself in a guise of medical expertise, advising…

The choice of ‘tiny boiling Qatar’ as a venue in 2022 – where thousands of construction workers lost their lives – typifies Fifa’s cynical favour-auctioning, says Simon Kuper

Booze, coke, models, parties… Mark Ronson’s vivid account of DJing in the 1990s is a celebration of a lost world

When Kracauer’s protagonist is finally conscripted in the first world war, he starves himself to ‘general physical debility’ and is sent to ‘peel potatoes against the foe’

Lyse Doucet describes how the Intercontinental, the journalists’ refuge for decades, is increasingly targeted by the Taliban as they gain control in Afghanistan

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas has spawned a host of deathcamp dramas that trivialise the Jewish tragedy, says Tanya Gold

If you’ve longed to see every penguin species in the world, think about the company you’ll be keeping, warns Jamie Lafferty

Far from being an ancient trait, the ‘irksome novelty’ dates from 1939, according to Graham Robb – whose idiosyncratic history of Britain corrects many erroneous beliefs

What are we to make of dramatic classics and classics of music and dance? That very distinguished actor Bille Brown…

Clarkston is an American-backed production featuring a Netflix star, Joe Locke. He plays a young graduate with a terminal illness,…

So, the Turner Prize: where do we start? It’s Britain’s most prestigious art award, one that used to mean something…

By now, viewers of TV thrillers are no strangers to a baffling prologue – but this week brought a particularly…

Ivan Day pulls out an old Habsburg cookbook from his library. The 300-year-old volume is so thick it’s almost a…

‘Goodness Triumphant’ is the alternative title of Rossini’s La Cenerentola, and you’d better believe he meant it. Possibly my reaction…

Is Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest as good as everyone is saying? That it has a run time of nearly three…

Lady Gaga’s show was to begin at 7.30  prompt, we were told. No opening act. And at 7.30 something did…

The tendency of Australian politics to shadow British politics is never more conspicuous than when both countries are led by…

Writing in the Daily Telegraph James Morrow has coined the expression ‘pulling an Albo’, meaning ‘looking busy while doing nothing’.…

As readers will be aware, and without sounding too immodest, this column is absolutely committed to diversity. In an earlier…

I was in Australia last week, having been invited to give the annual oration by the Robert Menzies Institute, and…

For Comp 3419 you were invited to write a poem to mark National Vodka Day (4 October) or another spurious…

The path to electoral success at the next election is straightforward. Just follow what I call the Channel 5 strategy.…

Time to think about my diet. A test kit arrives from the NHS screening team who want to inspect a…

Cradle of Mankind Paleoanthropologists tried to kill me a few days ago. Luckily I was saved by Max Mutkin, a…

Q. My printer is broken, so I asked my neighbour to print off a letter for me. It was from…

There are a handful of elements that make me nervous about tackling particular classic recipes. First, if it’s a dish…

The solar panel fitter was eating his fried breakfast when the talkative vegans came into the kitchen. They surveyed his…