Dear Sir, I am currently attending a conference in a major Australian city. Upon landing here I was welcomed to…

How indecision and timidity cripple conservatism

And will do so with Australia’s approval

Rough roads ahead thanks to Labor

Turning wealth into poverty

Prepare for the worst

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Hollywood elites have taken over the workers’ party

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Stop all the mollycoddling

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I suppose there must be someone somewhere in this nation of ours who was surprised by the news that our…

A test has been developed in Iceland to assess a citizen’s sensitivity and potential for anti-social behaviour. Will the looming referendum make it compulsory?

We have already met versions of Self’s mother in his fiction, but here we have a detailed portrait – of her rages, frustrations, fantasies, panic attacks and – not least – extramarital affairs

Peaceful co-operation is essential for human survival, and our present ‘feast of feverish discord and hatred’ is bound to be replaced by one of ‘calm and community’, says Hanno Saur

The legend of heroic resistance during the 872-day blockade helped many survivors bear the guilt of having robbed, betrayed, murdered and even eaten their fellow citizens

With the family business in Murano under threat, the daughter of a Venetian glassmaker learns to craft perfect coloured beads, soon much sought after by high society

Did her many miscarriages so unhinge the beautiful actress that she ended up a sex-crazed harridan, screaming obscenities at those she loved?

Stationed in Paris from 1926 to 1940, the wealthy, debonair ‘Biffy’ Dunderdale, often seen as a model for James Bond, was also a supremely effective intelligence officer

Amy Jeffs likens the shattered world of medieval Christianity to the dispersed relics of the many saints whose memory Henry VIII hoped to obliterate

Much derided as a philistine wasteland, the borough has an extremely distinguished history and could serve as a microcosm of Britain itself, says Will Noble

Long before Columbus crossed the ocean in 1492, the Phoenicians had discovered the Azores, and by the year 1000 Norse men and women were eking out an existence in Greenland

Describing himself as the ‘savage from Peru’, Paul Gauguin avoided French society when he could, returning to Polynesia in 1895, where he spent his final years on the island of Hiva Oa

It’s one of those weird paradoxes of history that we think of the Elizabethan era as the zenith of our…

As the Proms season enters the home straight, it’s moved up a gear, with a string of high profile European…

The Real Thing at the Old Vic is a puzzling beast. And well worth seeing. Director Max Webster sets the…

A few years ago, my nephew informed me that he and his friend were planning to come up to London…

‘It had nothing to endow it with the title of studio at all,’ was Edward James’s first impression of Leonora…

Firebrand is a period drama about Henry VIII’s sixth and final wife, Catherine Parr. It is sumptuously photographed – it’s…

Grade: B Readers of a certain age (mine, roughly) may have fond memories of 1993’s Sam & Max Hit the…

Kaos is a new Netflix gods-and-monsters black-comedy blockbuster that will scorch your screen and fry your brain like a thunderbolt…

On 14 March 2020 I was at Leeds Grand Theatre for the première of Northern Ballet’s Geisha. The curtains swung…

To paraphrase Sarah Palin, once the convention cheer squad has disappeared and the Styrofoam columns have been removed all you…

Speccie reader Alan has asked me to explain ‘toxic masculinity’ adding ‘why is there never any mention of toxic femininity?’.…

My neighbour had a surgical procedure and keeps telling me about it. Every time she starts, I shout ‘No! Please…

Freddie Flintoff recently called the Maidan ‘the home of cricket’. For supporters of Ukraine’s independence, the Maidan saw continual demonstrations…

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Q. A friend, who I love dearly and who comes to stay a lot, has always been unforthcoming with gifts.…

Readers concerned that the seemingly imperious march of Bazball across the cricket firmament has blotted out the more, er, traditional…

Standing in the biscuit aisle of my local supermarket, I’m overwhelmed by possibilities. This isn’t unusual for me, but normally…

There is a new dilemma for racehorse trainers. ‘What do I do?’ some of them are now worrying. ‘Do I…

Free speech advocates like me need to stop talking about the meagre gains we made under the last government because…

Porthminster Kitchen sits above Warren’s Bakery on St Ives Harbour, like a paradigm of the British class system in food.…