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Sam Altman, Dark Lord of Chatbots (or the CEO of OpenAI as he is more conventionally known), has released another…

Last Friday I was on my 15th-floor balcony with an early afternoon coffee, watching dogs play among the banana trees…

One of my favourite scenes in Kill Bill, Quentin Tarantino’s black comedy martial arts film, is the meeting of Beatrix…

There are two accounts of the negative effects for humanity of the explosion of generative AI: one minatory, one trivial.…

Clement Attlee, in the words of Winston Churchill, was a modest man with much to be modest about. Labour’s postwar…

I am a priest in the high church tradition of the Church of England. The technical term is Anglo-Catholicism, but…

Dixmont, Yonne It has been a terrible year for the Le Pen family. Jean-Marie died in the first week of…

It wasn’t until I received a notification from the Monzo app that I realised I’d spent nearly £10 on two…

The Ukrainians of Alabama are not the kind of lobbyists whose visits strike fear into pro-Trump politicians in Washington. They…

An industry poll by the British Film Institute in 2000 to find Britain’s best television programme put Fawlty Towers first…

Home For many, ‘Terrible Tuesday’ began ‘Awful April’ with increased bills for water, energy, council tax (to an average in…

When I told a Westminster political editor that my novel NUNC! was about the prophet Simeon and the Nunc Dimittis,…

Open arms Sir: The latest magazine (29 March) has two references to American military capabilities, from Rod Liddle and Francis…

A Today programme presenter used the term imperium (cf. ‘emperor’) with reference to Donald Trump’s desire to annex Greenland. To…

The City’s self-styled ‘cheerleader in chief’, Lord Mayor Alastair King, on a recent visit to Beijing and Shanghai found leading…

My late parents perpetually promoted their marriage as the best in the history of the universe. Because this cult of…

In Westminster, politics is often a zero-sum game. There is a winner and a loser. But this week, two politicians…

It seems the US State Department sees an impediment to free speech as an impediment to free trade with Britain.…

I heard the self-important whine of a police siren so pulled back the curtains a little to see what was…

Some readers may have noticed that it takes rather a long time to get anything done in Britain these days.…

You almost have to admire the nerve, the gall, the sheer chutzpah. Here we have a book about the mental…

A fast and compelling account of what happened when the retired general came to London in the late 1990s for an operation, by a lawyer closely involved in the case

Was Leonardo really vegetarian, agnostic and a fashion icon? In this searingly brilliant new ‘anti-biography’ we learn there isn’t much we can say about him with any certainty at all

Skewering journalistic pretension to authority is the main business of a novel that contrives to be both viciously accurate and weirdly off the mark

A collection of speeches and articles reminds us that ‘the most dangerous man in Britain’ was thoughtful, kind, entertaining and one of the most appealing politicians of the postwar period – writes a Conservative MP

The Moroccan-born American writer’s fifth novel is set in a US where algorithmic policing has halved gun deaths and despite the loss of liberty the majority are happy with the bargain

At her house in Westminster, Lady Pamela Berry, deb and it girl and then wife of Daily Telegraph proprietor Lord Hartwell, gathered parliamentarians, writers, aristocrats and wits

Her background was one of privilege and she married one of the most famous men of our time but the Japanese artist suffered her fair share of grief and misfortune

It’s a weird connection but they say Donald Trump is devoted to his presidential predecessor Andrew Jackson who was popular…

Amanda Abbington’s new show is heavily indebted to Noël Coward’s Hay Fever.Coward’s early play follows the tribulations of the superficial…

Interviewing for MI6 sounds to have been even scarier a century ago than it must be today. Candidates would enter…

Any evening devoted to the multifaceted genius of George Balanchine is something to be grateful for, manna in the wilderness…

Tribe with Bruce Parry ran for three fondly remembered series in the mid-2000s. Now, upgraded to Tribe with Bruce Parry,…

Mr Burton is a biopic of Richard Burton’s early years and an origins story, if you like. It stars Harry…

Midway through their thoroughly entertaining show at Wembley Arena, the Darkness played a song from a decade ago called ‘Barbarian’,…

You feel so close to Victor Hugo in this exhibition. It’s as if you are at his elbow while he…

It’s Arvo Part’s 90th birthday year, which is good news if you like your minimalism glum, low and very, very…

In April 2015, a fire raged through Clandon Park, destroying much of the 18th-century Palladian mansion’s prized interiors. Contrary to…

It’s hard to imagine climate fanatics smashing roof-loads of solar panels, gluing themselves to wind turbines or scrawling offensive semi-literate…

Are you a ‘pejorist’? I wouldn’t blame you if you were. I am currently reading Melanie Phillips’ brilliant book The…

Hypochondriacs are never happy because we know that eventually all of us are vindicated. As Spike Milligan said on his…

I was having a drink in the Bishops’ Bar in the House of Lords last month when I was introduced…

Q. When hosting a dinner party, should one circulate the biographies/Wikipedia entries of your guests beforehand so that everyone arrives…

I’ve always thought working in hospitality is like getting a free MBA – but one rooted in the real world…

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been troubled by two verbal peculiarities in a week. The Duchess corrected a…

The Italians have a phrase: ‘brutti ma buoni’. It means ‘ugly but beautiful’, and it’s the name they give to…

Laikipia, Kenya I am grateful to David, a reader of this column, who kindly sent me a packet of old…

The moment I stepped out of the Covent Garden sunshine and into the regal offices of the Lady magazine, it…