Forgiveness is now officially on the Covid menu. The left-leaning Atlantic magazine in the US has called for a ‘pandemic…

The ABC is simply playing catch-up

Or, ‘How I avoid any responsibility for lockdowns and mandates’

And it’s free!

‘Diversity’ may be in for a nasty shock

Graphene oxide? Nanobots?

Xi’s very public purge

Sunak will appeal to the Right and downplay Johnson’s Green agenda

It is only in the ‘racist’ West that genuine multi-culturalism thrives

Remembering the moment rock was transformed

The self-interest of our ruling class damages our democracy

Twitter today, WeChat tomorrow?

Ukraine is becoming a test ground for other countries’ weapons

I’ll miss hating the Qatar World Cup

Can Rishi Sunak navigate the migrant crisis?

Inside Germany’s extreme monarchist movement

How a silly little bit of satire got me sacked

Former justice secretary Robert Buckland on the asylum crisis

  Rio de Janeiro   When I first began writing about politics in 2005, my Brazilian husband, David Miranda, was…

Home Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, spoke in the Commons of an ‘invasion on our southern coast’ by migrants in…

Olaf Scholz will be in Beijing this weekend, making the first visit of a western leader to China since the…

Immigration is now at the top of the political agenda in a way that it hasn’t been since the vote…

It was a difficult one for the BBC, but they got through it. The problem was this: how to do…

I know a man who plans to burn an effigy of Elon Musk on his bonfire on 5 November. Musk…

It is sometimes said, correctly, that conservatism is more an attitude than an ideology. And for me there have always…

Greta Thunberg said, in a newspaper interview, that Cop27 is a ‘scam’ for ‘greenwashing, lying and cheating’. Then she said…

Fleeing the revolution and forced to scrape a living as taxi drivers and seamstresses, the exiles were generally a melancholy crowd, united by mutual loathing

Greil Marcus chooses seven celebrated songs, ranging from the 1960s to the present, to explore the diverse sources of Dylan’s inspiration

Both progressive and traditionalist Catholics mistook its message from the start, leading to 60 years of needless disruption in the Church, says George Weigel

Edward Brooke-Hitching’s freakish gallery includes giant Olmec heads, cans of excrement, nightmarish prison scenes and a woman’s face sprouting luxuriant hair

The screen idol emerges from this posthumous memoir as painfully insecure and a long-time alcoholic – but also modest, generous and a devoted family man

Restless anxiety fills these latest short stories, revolving around class, violence against women and general destabilisation

Alison Weir’s study of five Plantagenet queens is dominated by Isabella, the wife of Edward II, whose vengefulness led to the Hundred Years’ War

Raynor Winn fears the Cape Wrath Trail may prove too much for her husband, suffering with CBD – but the indomitable couple continue to thrive on adversity

While poverty and racial prejudice disturbingly persist, Jimi Famurewa prefers to celebrate the vigour of the black community’s churches, markets, clubs and restaurants

Nick Hornby yokes the two in an enjoyable jeu d’esprit – but, apart from troubled childhoods and prodigious energy, the thing they really share is Hornby’s admiration

Queasy nostalgia gives way to mounting anger in a satirical novel about post-war Britain, seen through the eyes of a Birmingham family

Infant twin girls, in the first year of their lives, muse on everything from the futility of existence to the purpose of memory

Our regular reviewers choose the books they have most enjoyed reading in 2022

Whatever you think of the question of the Voice it was fascinating to hear Noel Pearson, that most formidable and…

Living is a remake of one of the great existential masterpieces of the 20th century, Kurosawa’s Ikiru (1952), which didn’t…

Tanjil Rashid talks to Kazuo Ishiguro about his long and underexplored love affair with film

‘Poor old Mornington Crescent, I feel sorry for it with this highly made-up neighbour blocking the view it had enjoyed,’…

Elizabeth the First is a ten-part American podcast series that isn’t about Elizabeth I at all. The assumption of its…

King Hamlin is a shock-horror drama about gang crime in London. Hamlin, aged 17, has left school without learning any…

Sunday’s SAS Rogue Heroes – about the founding of perhaps Britain’s most famous regiment – began with a revealing variation…

Do you remember Osvaldo Golijov? Two decades ago he was classical music’s Next Big Thing: a credible postmodernist with a…

The first time I saw Franz Ferdinand was at the sadly lost Astoria, just after the release of their first…

That alcohol-related death rates rose during the pandemic might be the least surprising announcement ever made by the Australian Bureau…

During the height of the Aids epidemic a body was established called the ‘Aids Council of NSW’. I’m sure in…

Chessington World of Adventures sits in a bowl near the A3. I went in the 1970s when it was a…

Among people of a conservative disposition, it’s long been accepted that the Equality Act needs to be repealed. This legislation,…

When the burly honchos of the Rugby League World Cup gushed about taking the game to new heights, no one…

After commuting to Marseille for nine days of radiotherapy, I spent the week alone in the cave, in bed, in…

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