With the acquiescence of a handful of well-intentioned but misguided crossbench MPs, Victorian Labor Premier Daniel Andrews has won his…

In this dull, dispiriting time we have to get our humour where we can find it, no matter in how…

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Home-working shows how many government jobs can be moved out of London

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This week was built up by the Prime Minister to be the moment that would mark the return of economic…

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The British Museum’s aim is to use its collection ‘for the benefit and education of humanity’. If that manifests itself…

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Teachers were told to exclude children who made ‘inappropriate’ jokes about Covid when they returned to school this week. These…

The first cabinet meeting of the new term and Boris Johnson’s summer holiday were both dominated by one concern: how…

I sympathised with Leave voters who yearned to ‘take back control’ of British borders. After all, if being a country…

It was a luminous late August sunset, and we were in France, dining outdoors with some friends who have a…

In 2012, the editors of Vice ran an article aimed at would-be contributors to their self-avowedly edgy magazine headed ‘Never…

Staying with Peregrine Eliot (later 10th Earl of St Germans) at Port Eliot in Cornwall, Lucian Freud remembered that the…

Parents are always terrified of bad family history repeating itself. Prince Albert dreaded his son Bertie turning into a roué…

In Money for Nothing, Thomas Levenson brings us into the story of the South Sea Bubble by writing about the…

Britain’s two most famous legendary figures, King Arthur and Robin Hood, remain enduringly and endearingly elusive, and thus ever-fascinating: Arthur…

Like Ottessa Moshfegh’s first novel Eileen (2015), Death in Her Hands plays with the conventions of noir. Vesta Gul, a…

Graham Greene was constantly searching for peace of mind along with escapist thrills, says Nicholas Shakespeare

When the Irish comedian Dylan Moran was interviewed on ABC radio last year as a precursor to his (now presumably…

No longer confined to the digital space, the Australian Chamber Orchestra is returning to the platform in City Recital Hall…

In the cabinet war rooms in Whitehall in London, there is a chart which registers Atlantic convoys en route from…

Why does the state fund theatres and not gardening and bingo, asks Lloyd Evans

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It sometimes rains in Cookham. It rained all day when I visited the Stanley Spencer Gallery to see the exhibition…

The roots of the Southbank Centre’s current crisis stretch back to before the pandemic, says Oliver Basciano

The Royal Albert Hall, as Douglas Adams never wrote, is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely,…

Few things better capture the crazed cognitive dissonance of our age than this: that while we cower behind masks for…

Peter Scammell There is no doubt that the corona virus pandemic is changing the way we live and think about…

A major pandemic has been sweeping through the bridge world since the game went online — and it’s called cheating.…

In France I own a dented old Mercedes and in England a dented old Mitsubishi Carina. The Mercedes is parked…

We all have weeks when every win bet finishes second and every each-way comes home in fourth. You begin to…

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In Competition No. 3164 you were invited to submit a poem in which each line comes from a different well-known…

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A few nights ago on Twitter, I quipped that I was planning to launch a trade union for remote workers.…

Q. Some friends persist on displaying our email addresses in large address lists when sending out round robins to all…

I spent Monday afternoon with The Wake Up Call, a new book by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge that lambasts…

I suspect, though this may be romanticising, that if a French lorry driver with hitherto suppressed culinary tastes won France’s…

A teenager in North Carolina has been revealed as the creator of a fifth or even a half of the…