In exciting news this week, the Prime Minister announced that a retired coal miner from Cessnock who now runs a…

I have been much taken by recent opinion pieces in the media that people are drifting away from the established…

Australia is lurching towards full-blown socialism

Our Liberals need to grasp the truth

Another woke referendum bites the dust

The Federal Court’s gift to eco-saboteurs

B1 is a man on emission

On Charlie Hebdo, Voltaire & Douglas Murray

How the West’s useful idiots have embraced Islam’s ancient hatreds

Be very sceptical about government spending on immigration

Everything the Albanese government does now is affected by one consideration: the election must be held before they are exposed…

North Korea has a problem with Alan Titchmarsh’s crotch. Last week a 2010 episode of Garden Secrets was aired on…

When the last Tory government fell, the famous question after election night was: ‘Were you up for Portillo?’ Were you…

It doesn’t matter how loyal a candidate is. Once elected, all MPs (to a greater or lesser extent) conclude they…

Jerusalem The idea of a Saudi-Israel rapprochement would have been unthinkable not so long ago, and yet, shortly before the…

Now that everyone insists that the oppressed must be lifted up – or platformed, if you’re that way inclined: why…

Many of us remember at least one morning in our childhoods when fate threw us some unexpected twist and we…

Stockholm There were 149 bomb attacks in Sweden last year. Though warring gangs are for the most part responsible, ordinary…

Israel has a new train line: 25 minutes from Ben Gurion airport to Jerusalem. The Christian pilgrims would love it…

One parent in our class WhatsApp chat raised a pressing concern: her daughter was coming home every day with a…

For those of us lucky enough to have been regular contributors to Punch magazine, April is a slightly crueller month…

Screen tests Sir: As somebody whose teaching career coincided with the digital revolution, I must take issue with Sophie Winkleman’s…

What a song and dance about the end of life! Historians assure us that, among human beings, there is a…

It’s my birthday this week and the end of my seventh decade (mathematicians will note that this does not make…

Home The Hate Crime and Public Order Act came into effect in Scotland, making it a crime to communicate or…

It was bound to happen sooner or later: a guest on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow presented an artefact which derived…

Ballot points Michael Gove hinted that the general election could be on 14 or 21 November.     Have we had a…

‘It would have been ideal not to have so  much poo in the water,’ said Oxford captain Leonard Jenkins after…

With Labour 20 points ahead in the national polls, a lot of Tories have already written off next month’s mayoral…

Reading only slightly between the lines of US foreign policy on Israel/Gaza, I detect that its most urgent aim is…

The district of Pendle in Lancashire has a long history of dissenters, nonconformists, witches and murderers. Perhaps because it is…

There are only a few rules to column-writing. One of the strictest is never to waste time bouncing off the…

Dorian Lynskey lays out the many ways in which we have imagined the world ending – through pandemic, nuclear holocaust, climate change, asteroid impact or, most unnervingly, AI

Executed as one of the leaders of the Easter Rising, he was absent from Dublin at the time of the doomed insurrection – and actually tried to prevent it

A teenage victim of bullying is gradually drawn into a world of online extremism in this entirely relatable story of the adolescent yearning for acceptance

The concluding volume of the Danny Ryan trilogy sees the gangster hero involved in a bitter feud over the purchase of a crumbling property on the Las Vegas Strip

Until the age of 66, Sante lived as a deeply divided man. In this story of self-realisation, she describes how transitioning finally ‘lifted the veil’ over her existence

For decades, competitive advantage depended on finding loopholes in the sport’s rule book – and no one knew that better than the British entrepreneur Bernie Ecclestone

After adopting two baby rats as pets, Joe Shute slowly overcomes his aversion and learns to appreciate the intelligence of creatures that are really quite like us

‘A part of me died at school’, Charles Spencer writes in his shockingly stark account of sadism and sexual abuse at Maidwell Hall, Northamptonshire, in the 1970s

It figures that Australians should write great plays about sport because we are exceptionally – some people would say excessively…

If you’ve heard good reports about MJ the Musical, believe them all and multiply everything by a hundred. As a…

The time that elapsed between the fall of the Paris Commune and the opening of the first proper impressionist exhibition…

Sensible prog-rock bands try to ensure no one ever realises they play prog. What happens when you are deemed a…

Here’s a fun thought experiment: instead of entrusting the future of American democracy to one of two old men, what…

This is the second exhibition of mid-century New York street photography at the MK Gallery in Milton Keynes. The first,…

Scoop is a dramatised account of the events leading up to the BBC’s 2019 Newsnight interview with Prince Andrew. The…

Carmen and Frankenstein are without a doubt two of the most over-worked tropes in our culture, the myths of the…

After conquering the world with Peaky Blinders (and before that by co-creating Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?), Steven Knight…

Given that New Zealand has now entered into a recession, in spite of record migration levels and population growth, many…

Raymond from Nedlands, WA, asks for the meaning of ‘identity politics’. Searching through various sources, I can provide a one-word…

Paper Moon is the Italian restaurant inside the Old War Office on Whitehall, now a hotel called Raffles London at…

My husband is obsessed with pretzels. The joy that a slightly warm, soft baked pretzel brings him is disproportionate. And,…

Among my generation of Oxford graduates – late fifties, early sixties – there is currently a great deal of talk…

It’s freezing cold and everywhere is flooded, so it must be the start of the county cricket season. Surrey, last…

Easter always zips by if you’re a bridge player and enter the EBU’s Easter Festival. There are four events to…

At the Centre for Rare Diseases, the car park was full and lots of people were milling about. I pulled…

The Financial Times seeks applicants for the Sir Samuel Brittan fellowship. Announcing this, the paper refers to him as Sir…

Nairobi Some of our medical practitioners in Kenya advertise their services on street corners. ‘Bad omens, lost lovers, broken marriage,…

Q. My son-in-law is running the Paris marathon to raise money for cystic fibrosis research and has sent out a…

The sun was setting on the first day of spring and I felt unusually happy as I fed the donkey.…