The news that a ‘kangaroo court’ has decided to charge Donald Trump with a pile of spurious charges from many…

It was really very satisfying to see that the publishers of Enid Blyton’s books have censored the text of The…

Inequality of citizenship is too big a risk to take

Labor and the Libs’ shameful treatment of Moira Deeming

Jack’s beanstalk grows and grows

Were Australians misled by our health authorities?

The woke experiment has been a disaster for the Libs

A legal fig leaf for the Left

On the very real threat of TikTok

The Voice can never ‘close the gap’

Numbers never lie. Only politicians.

His practical radicalism brought permanent change

Can Justin Welby and Pope Francis keep their flocks?

The madness of the Low Traffic Neighbourhood measures

The Russian rebel’s chief of staff on standing up to Putin

In Ukraine, patriotism has become profitable

The surprising beauty of Mass in a burnt-out church

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Major mistake Sir: Douglas Murray (‘Our poor deluded MPs’, 1 April) contends that John Major is widely regarded as ‘one…

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It is with great sadness that I must report the departure of the world’s only female head of state who…

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I don’t know what your plans are for Easter. Mine generally include a nice walk in the English countryside. There…

BBC News reported Britain’s imminent accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership behind two stories about racism…

A young stage illusionist is recruited by the British secret service to extract a list of double agents concealed in a Russian magician’s stage prop

A deranged anarchist plans to commit the crime of a century – with Polari, coded messages and a faulty typewriter contributing to the mayhem

Jonathan Kennedy explores the (mainly) devastating effects of bacteria in the past – and now, as they proliferate and our resistance diminishes

There are vignettes of many Cambridge contemporaries – including the mysterious John Sackur, the inspiration for the invisible man in Donkeys’ Years

He dismisses the philosophy of religion as sixth-formish point-scoring. But are his own ruminations any more profound?

Edward VII’s reign is generally seen as a bright interlude between Victorian primness and the Great War – but there was considerable unrest on many fronts

After the Amboyna massacre of 1623, the newly-fledged East India Company conceded the spice trade to the Dutch – to focus instead on the riches of India

A counterfactual history of modern America serves as a backdrop to the life of the enigmatic ‘X’ – a woman of multiple personae and impenetrable disguises

Twentieth-century Spain was a violent, corrupt and volatile country – but that hardly made it an anomaly within Europe, says Sarah Watling

We think of television – even in this age of a thousand streamers – as something we pig out on…

By now a genuinely radical way to turn a Victorian novel into a TV drama would be to take that…

Berlusconi: A New Musical, an excellent title, has opened at a new venue in south London, Southwark Playhouse Elephant. The…

Godland is a film to see on the big screen: not just for its awesome, immersive cinematography, but because it…

Despite its widespread rating as one of his masterpieces, Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella is chock full of knots, gaps and stumbling…

Walking on Hampstead Heath the December before Covid, I got caught up in a festive party of bichon frises dressed,…

Stuart Jeffries meets the prisonerartists of HMP Grendon

Australia’s greatest footy rivalries used to be strictly intra-code affairs – obvious examples being league’s State of Origin, union’s Bledisloe,…

Our esteemed editor has drawn my attention to the word ‘ecocide’. It was employed by the Greens Party’s treasury spokesman…

Of all London districts, there is no more charming name than Mayfair. It makes one think of pretty shepherdesses, giggling…

If I ran the British government, to promote more heterodox thinking I would employ a small cadre of French people…

A dark cloud has descended over Queens Park Rangers, my beloved football club. On 22 October last year, when we…

Mrs Oakley not being a turfista, she rarely joins me on a racecourse expedition. But before we had a dog…

‘What’s Bill W. got to do with it?’ said one of the committee members to the others as they discussed…

New York Is it poor little ol’ me imagining things, or are Americans becoming stupider by the minute? I’ve been…