DD or not DD, that is the question for Hamlet in the Lodge, Malcolm Turnbull. Six months in, the Turnbull…

After this year’s shambles, I thought I would get in early and nominate Alice Kunek as Australian of the Year…

Boris Brexit? The British vote on exit from the EU, commonly known as Brexit, may become Boris Johnson’s entry to…

As his latest writing demonstrates, things should have turned out very differently for the former PM

Tales of childhood misery and misfortune are the entry price of joining the Aboriginal debate, apparently

Oil the cause of BHP-Billiton’s troubled waters

Dare to question today’s elitist ideologies at your peril

After the disappointment of Barack Obama, the country is turning mean

The markets have certainly been behaving as though it is

The Brexit camp want to risk decades of real peace and prosperity to attain a future full of implausibly rational statesmen

Right now, it’s ‘my’

The history of human-goose relationships shows how confused we are about our fellow animals

In some places, it’s the Ottolenghis that have to be kept behind the counter. In others, it’s the true crime

We, unlike the Hungarians, are in danger of forgetting this ideology’s extraordinary death toll

The last time I stayed in Courchevel it was in a tatty roadside chalet a long way down the mountain.…

Theresa May’s Investigatory Powers Bill makes pitifully little effort to define when heavy surveillance powers may or may not be used

Home An official analysis by the Cabinet Office said that if Britain left the EU it would lead to a…

Tucker Carlson’s diary: The aesthetic merits of British colonialism; Mumbai’s building boom; the ends of empires

Also in our Barometer column: the boroughs with the most CCTV cameras, and Britain’s retail and steel industries

Why doesn’t our Prime Minister try the art of persuasion, instead of issuing threats?

From ‘Henry James’, The Spectator, 4 March 1916: Englishmen are not likely ever to forget the generous thought which inspired…

Plus Farage's achievement, the reality of John Bell, and a teenager on dating

After the opening skirmishes the ‘inners’ are winning on the economy and the ‘outers’ on immigration

Also in The Spectator’s Notes: the significance of 23 June; why ‘leave’ can’t have a plan; The Simpsons and President Trump

If it’s Islam, you can count on the BBC and the Guardian not to mention it

All reports edit. Virtual-reality reporting may make that harder to remember

They have never really been on the same side, the two types of Tories. They have merely rubbed along

Plus: Central bankers can’t go on like this; and why Barclays should stay in Africa

Aleppo’s magnificent history as an ancient Silk Road metropolis makes Philip Mansel’s final bleak chapter, ‘Death of a City’, especially tragic reading

This big, colourful novel, written by a film critic and set in Fifties bohemian London, is as addictive as a TV box set

But that's partly because we still don't have good answers to the questions he raised

Timothy J. Jorgensen’s Strange Glow contains some really quite interesting facts about this strange transmission of energy that can both kill and cure

The decade of internecine carnage that followed the 1917 October revolution was one of the bitterest and — until Jonathan D. Smele’s latest book — most neglected periods of Russian history

The Schlesingers were wealthy, public-spirited and highly cultivated British patriots. But London society still casually snubbed his grandparents, says Ian Buruma

Sharing companies may appear to make everyone a winner. But, as Tom Slee argues, they distort the market and disregard dull but important regulations

The stricken heroine of The Stopped Heart, numb with grief, retires to a quiet country cottage — only to find it full of menace and unquiet spirits

William Shatner boldly goes into the details of his 50-year friendship with Leonard Nimoy — and his profound sadness over their final estrangement

Was this dynamic and highly principled editor too good to make for an interesting biography? Not on this evidence

The former governor of the Bank of England warns that the present danger is not that the euro might collapse but that it might continue

This ‘documentary’ of the lives and careers of Marcus Clarke, Adam Lindsay Gordon and Henry Kendall presents a detailed account,…

Religion is appealing to dramatists: witness Hand to God, a surprise hit on Broadway that has now transferred to the Vaudeville Theatre. But will theatre ever take religion seriously?

None of Botticelli's imitators come close to matching his ease and divine grace. But the Renaissance master is at his best at the Courtauld, illustrating Dante, loosed from loveliness

But Elena Langer's new sequel, Figaro Gets a Divorce, can't quite shed the baggage

Yet sometimes the singers struggle to be heard over the brazen glow of Puccini's orchestrations

The sets are nice though. Plus: a horrifying but riveting new play about the Yorkshire grooming scandals at the Trafalgar Studios

Is there any meaning to this series of mostly delicious vignettes? And if so, what is it? And does it matter, when George Clooney delivers such great thigh work?

Plus: an ambitious new show from the Mark Bruce Company at Wilton's Music Hall that takes on Homer's Odyssey

Plus: The Wrong Mans on BBC2 is a good reminder of how repellant stag parties are

In Newshour Extra we learnt about Khomeini’s grandson, the effect of sanctions on Iran and a groundbreaking campaign in Michigan that’s reduced the state’s suicide rate to zero

If you haven’t yet seen Verdi’s Luisa Millar at the Sydney Opera House you’re already too late; no worry, there…

Brussels is the bad guy in all this: undemocratic, incompetent Brussels

The vitriolic reviewers on Tripadvisor got it wrong — or did they...?

Darcy trod on a screw, which may have put paid to my Grand National delusions

If the New Day succeeds it will be a sign of the irreversible decline of newpapers

With the mighty A.P. McCoy out of the way, nice Richard Johnson will get the success he deserves

So many tournaments — so little space. Last week saw two of the very best London has to offer: Terry…

On Saturday 5 March the 134th Varsity Match between the teams from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge takes place…

Black to play. This position is from Scibior-Chiu, Varsity Match 2013. Black now powered through into the white position. What…

In Competition No. 2937 you were invited to submit extracts from the diaries of the famous that their writers did…

The unclued lights (one of two words, and one of three) when preceded by the same word (which has to…

The unclued lights are some of the Wombles of Wimbledon COMMON, paired at 25/21, 31/16 and 35/10. First prize Belinda…

Disagreeing about so many things is one of the reasons we got along so well

Plus the suddenly sensitivity of Aussie cricketers, and British golf’s Donald Trump problem

Plus: is it OK to advertise for a Jewish boyfriend; and how to leave a book launch

…even if, when I visited, the attached gallery was open only for him

Leaps in the dark from death to Brexit