Last week’s Canberra Midwinter Ball at which our politicians let their hair down as they wined and dined the night…

Can the party change direction or not?

Real productivity begins with ditching net zero

ABS Media should stop scolding finance journos

Sanity has gone up in smoke

All the news unfit to print

The decline of Westminster democracies

The real reason people are not having sex

Xi forgets who really won the war

The serious decline of Australia under Albanese

It seems that people would rather fight for a death cult than a democracy. At most, 15,000 foreigners have fought…

Chris Hargreaves used to be a wellness coach with a promising future in reality television. In 2023, he starred in…

Naturally, the start of the new school year is often stressful for pupils. Perhaps those anxious children returning to their…

It’s a very serious and rancorous time in Britain. Social strife is simmering. The asylum system is at breaking point.…

I worked for nearly a decade at the British Council in East Asia. Every day, under the guise of teaching…

On a table in Robert Jenrick’s parliamentary office lies the first part of Ronald Hutton’s biography of Oliver Cromwell, a…

I wasn’t supposed to understand Potato language. It was my parents’ speech device employed when wishing to discuss certain apparently…

Flagged up The Finnish air force announced that it is to remove the swastika from its flag (which was designed…

It’s that time of year when the local librairie-papeterie in your French holiday village is full of signs for la…

Home Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, told the Commons that new applications for refugee family reunion visas would be suspended.…

Britain’s energy policy is a mess. We have the highest energy prices in the developed world, which is damaging competitiveness,…

While Greek and Roman thinkers were influential in developing ideas such as citizenship, justice and equality, the notion of universal…

Waning interest Sir: Michael Simmons correctly points out that the Treasury’s large-scale issuance of inflation-linked debt is adding heavily to…

True, one of the earliest school shooters, Brenda Spencer, who shot up a playground in San Diego in 1979, was…

‘We’re going to get all our oil and gas out of the North Sea’ was certainly a winning line for…

Tens of thousands of people turned out on the streets last week to protest against mass immigration. The protestors were…

Isaac Levido, the Tory election strategist who helped secure Boris Johnson’s landslide victory in 2019 and saved the Tories from…

I used to volunteer at a wildlife sanctuary, counting sheep and goats on an agreeable patch of chalk downland in…

For a Justice of the High Court of Australia – even a retired one – publication in any genre is…

The Parisian public belongs to ‘all classes and creeds’, yet the sounds, smells and street furniture remain unmistakably French, says Andrew Hussey

Due to the chronic overuse of antibiotics, the proliferation of certain impervious strains now represents one of the world’s most urgent health threats

The implication of a senior government figure in murky dealings during the Troubles presents new problems for Jackson Lamb and his Slow Horses

The proud, skilled crafts it once described, such as thatching and coppicing, were part of life’s necessities – unlike the ‘handmade’ candles, chutneys and chocolates we now associate with it

With his marriage to Joan Didion in difficulties, John Gregory Dunne decamps to Nevada in the early 1970s to capture the dying days of Vegas sleaze

A postgraduate student of ‘Analytic Magick’ must rescue the soul of her thesis supervisor from campus hell or risk being stuck in academic limbo on Earth

When oversharing – and even inventing – stories of personal trauma is considered ‘validating’ and laudable we are in real trouble, says Darren McGarvey, speaking from experience

Tom McTague shows how the two most consequential decisions for Britain over the past 80 years have been entering the European Union in 1973 and leaving it in 2020

Isn’t it weird the way our newspapers seem suddenly to have discovered the obituary. David Stratton, loved and revered for…

John Gilhooly is sick of talking about the Arts Council of England. ‘Please tell me you’re not going to ask…

Asolo exhibition opened at Oxford’s Ashmolean in October 1980 that appeared to mark the belated arrival of a major new…

What set this apart, I would suggest, is its deep and unremitting unpleasantness The Cut stars Orlando Bloom as a…

Interview is a blind-date play. Only it’s not a blind date but a showbiz interview for a journal called the…

Another week, another show striving desperately to become the new Traitors. So it is that The Inheritance brings a group…

Nowadays, when the default setting for live music is ruthlessly choreographed efficiency, there is a queasy kind of thrill in…

Summer’s lease hath all too short a date, but there’s still time for one last opera festival. Vache Baroque popped…

Further evidence that global warming is good for mammals emerged in South Australia last week, when marine biologists confirmed that…

‘Said Hanrahan’ is a phrase from a bush ballad, usually uttered to identify a prophet of doom, gloom and utter…

‘Do you know how many people Hallmark cards employs?’ asked my husband. I didn’t, and nor would he, had he…

YouTube has now overtaken ITV to become Britain’s second most watched media service, beaten only narrowly by the BBC. Hardly…

Q. I have accepted an invitation to a five-day house party in Scotland. I know it is a breach of…

Autumn: surely one of the most beautiful words in the language. All the other seasons are expressive, almost even onomatopoeic,…

For Competition 3415 you were invited to submit a lost poem by a well-known poet which makes us see him…

I’m feeling quite smug at the moment. Every year I vow to get in shape in the summer, which means…

As sure as eggs is eggs, what was once comfort food will be reinvented as fine dining. Lancashire hotpots will…

Kenya It used to be that the black sheep from prominent British families were sent out to Kenya and told…

‘Please do NOT wash up!’ reads the makeshift sign I have fixed above the kitchen sink. It instructs our B&B…

Provence The canicule broke yesterday, heralding the end of high summer. Wild figs and mulberries litter the path, filling the…