It’s been quite the week for overblown climate hyperbole and preposterous exaggerations, so we thought we may as well join…

Bowen’s suicidal diplomatic mission

Affirmative action dressed up as higher education reform

From conceptualisation to weaponisation to monetisation

Australia beware

Intrigue in the court of Xi

How do we create integrity in a flawed welfare system?

The solution to indigenous disadvantage is being wilfully ignored

Even the luvvies say NSW wind farms don’t add up

The pandemic is largely to blame

We need more MPs like him to genuinely help remote indigenous communities

Old-school policing is back

Canada’s determination to believe the worst about its past

The increasing irrelevance of Israel’s PM

Why I had to let go of my late sister’s house

Football’s sleeping pill problem

The trouble with wild campers

War is coming home to Moscow

The latest charges against Donald Trump will do nothing to deter his many supporters within the Republican party. On the…

To think I once thought cricket dull. For more than 40 days and 40 nights, I have been gripped by…

Last summer, all the Tory party could talk about was tax. It was at the heart of the leadership contest…

I found Jean-Pierre standing at a half-open window gulping down lungfuls of stale Dutch air as our night train chuntered,…

Complaining about ‘toxic parents’ has been a viral hit on TikTok with videos on the topic racking up several billion…

I don’t always watch ‘Strongest Viking’ competitions on cable. But the other day I was channel-hopping and became mesmerised by…

Of Wolfram Eilenberger’s four intellectual heroines, Simone Weil alone really counts as a ‘visionary’, forsaking philosophy for a kind of saintly mysticism

Roger Moorhouse describes how various diplomats stationed in Europe risked their positions to issue as many forged ‘tickets to safety’ to Jews as possible

Like a weary schoolmaster toiling over his pupils’ homework, Peter Kemp dispenses praise, encouragement or reproof to modern fiction’s big-hitters

Jean entertains her young stepdaughter Leah with drawings and fairy stories – but the two grow sadly estranged in this haunting novel with its own fairy-tale similarities

Our unpreparedness was vividly illustrated by the catastrophic Canadian inferno of 2016 – originally judged a minor brushfire beyond Fort McMurray’s city limits

Racism in Britain may be less acute than in America or even France, but the false promises made to the Windrush generation have left a bitter aftermath

With their elegant entrances and blend of Art Nouveau, Romanticism and Modernism, the white-tiled stations of the Parisian underground are works of art in themselves

Sarah Hart discusses the Oulipo group, Jorge Luis Borges and Eleanor Catton among other writers who have explored the use of mathematics in their works

How, between 1911 and 1917, Owen became the dazzling poet we know and love is the story told in Jane Potter’s new edition of his selected letters

With flying narrators and women whose hair drags on the floor, there’s something of Leonora Carrington’s weird visions about Williams’s short stories

In his history of dance music in modern Britain, Ed Gillett describes police kettling at raves from the 1990s onwards and the attempt by parliament to ban repetitive beats

Albrecht Dürer was an undoubted genius – and no one was more conscious of it than the artist himself, says Philip Hoare

It’s an exciting prospect, Helen Morse in a play by the great Caryl Churchill. The artistic director of the Melbourne…

It has been quite some time since I’ve been able to bear watching UK crime drama. All right, I do…

The Royal Court’s new topical satire, Word-Play, opens with a gaffe-prone Tory prime minister giving a TV interview in which…

‘We all secretly want to be rock stars,’ the 2022 Booker Prize-winning author Shehan Karunatilaka said recently. By ‘we’ he…

The playwright Carlo Gozzi marvelled at ‘The spectacle of women turned into men, men turned into women, and both men…

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) began as a joke in 1984, a parody of the superhero culture of the time.…

If directors will insist on staging Handel oratorios as if they’re operas, it makes sense to pick Semele, which is…

In 1957, when my dear godmother, the Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava (1941-2020), was 16, she began her diary. The…

Robin Ashenden remembers the heyday of local repertory theatre – now sadly in terminal decline

The tide seems to be turning. It is looking increasingly likely that what is the daftest referendum ever dreamt up…

‘They’ is not a singular pronoun. It’s a fairly simple concept, but some people are struggling to grasp it. The…

The BBC made a very odd documentary about the renovation of Claridge’s: The Mayfair Hotel Megabuild. They filmed, agog, as…

Whenever I tell someone that I’m making a pavlova the response is the same: sheer joy. Even the most fervent…

And they said Test cricket was in its death throes! This epic, attention-grabbing, emotion-wringing Ashes series ended in the last…

The football season gets under way again on Saturday – or at least it does if your team isn’t in…

Three protagonists shaped the action at the British Championships, held at De Montfort University in Leicester last month, with sharply…

Laikipia Some are saved by Jesus and they are sober. For others, drunkenness is as natural as love-making, roasted meat…

As I slapped a rude note on a car parked outside my house, I realised that nature was taking its…

Patmos While green Rhodes and greener Corfu burn away, arid Patmos remains fireproof because rock and soil do not a…