In many ways the federal government’s proposal for Acma to regulate the content of social media platforms – via the…

It’s amazing! The ABC turned out to be some use after all! Taking a brief respite from its never-ending and…

Behold our leaders in politics, academia and business... and weep

Neo-indigenes to dominate a city-based Voice

Just make it up

The Economist gets its Voice story wrong

History has taught us that racial division never ends well

Supreme Court says there’s no place for race privilege

As Britain prepares to jump to the left

Just go back to Menzies

Watching the kids and police play hide and seek

What’s behind the rise of gang violence across Europe?

Jeremy Clarke’s wife on their happy years together

Jonathan Ashworth on Labour’s plans to cut unemployment

Why Putin still needs Wagner

The fast-growing racquet sport serving up a challenge to tennis

How Boris made me a threat to Mexico

The secretive life of China’s most controversial cartoonist

You can tell a lot about a president’s politics by his foreign visits. Joe Biden’s decision to skip King Charles’s…

It’s a rare occasion that sees politicians put aside their feuds and rivalries to gather together at Westminster Abbey. These…

Last week we learned that a woman in a park in Skegness was dragged into the bushes and raped by…

Back in the late 1990s, when I lived in Dallas, Texas, I became fascinated by television evangelists. They were hucksters…

Owen Matthews concludes his magnificent KGB trilogy, and there’s a thrilling debut from David McCloskey, a former CIA Middle East specialist

Depending on one’s perspective, it is either a dangerous way of thinking or one that the decadent West would do well to study, says Mark Sedgwick

The hero of many of Ford’s novels, Frank, now 74, is still trying to bond with his son Paul, who has been diagnosed with an incurable neurodegenerative condition

Restoring the painting ‘View of Scheveningen Sands’, an art conservationist uncovers a vital detail, leading her to regret the pact she once made with her husband

On 11 June 1930, William Beebe and Otis Barton descended into the Caribbean depths to glimpse a world no man had seen before

Though she photographed many society figures of the 1930s, Ker-Seymer lacked ambition and remains largely unknown – as she herself seems to have wanted

Interviewing the Continent’s refugees and poorest rural inhabitants, Ben Judah reveals a world far removed from Brussels politics or Eurovision optimism

Katherine Pangonis also traces the histories of Tyre, Antioch, Syracuse and Ravenna, once proud centres of government, trade and culture

The Atlantic Bluefin Tuna has the misfortune to taste so good that it has been hunted for millennia, and stocks are now dangerously depleted

The sinister Sergeant Bertrand arrives in a ‘provincial, mediocre’ Russian town to wreak havoc in the lives of a couple mourning the loss of their son

The nonagenarian’s critical faculties are as sharp as ever in these imaginary letters addressed to Kingsley Amis, Jonathan Miller, Doris Lessing and many others

After months of conversations with Ireland’s most notorious murderer, Mark O’Connell got both more and less than he bargained for, says Frances Wilson

It would have been interesting to hear Barrie Kosky and Kip Williams talk about the theatre on Tuesday night. In…

Idris Elba would have made a perfect James Bond. Not the James Bond that we knew and loved when he…

Nothing demonstrates the inanity of profanity like an undercooked comedy. The famous Spitting Image puppets have returned in a political…

Most artists begin an arena show with a bang: emerging from the floor, the gods, on a hoist, everything short…

I’m listening to John Cleese talking to Justin Welby in the new series of The Archbishop Interviews when the thought…

You’d have to have a heart of stone to not be moved by Name Me Lawand. It’s a documentary about…

‘Goodness Triumphant’ is the subtitle of Rossini’s La Cenerentola, and you’d better believe he delivers. It’s the sweetest thing imaginable;…

One of the annoying things about too many contemporary museums is that, having ditched old-fashioned closely typed descriptive labels and…

Louise Levene on the Japanese art form you can now watch at home

It used to be joked that Australia risked becoming the fifty-first state of America. But having enjoyed a family holiday…

We all know what ‘dictation’ means –  speaking words aloud for someone to write down. Once every office had its…

Shouldn’t we all just calm down a bit after Lord’s? Once prime ministers decide to intervene, you know things have…

In Competition No. 3306, you were invited to submit a poem about procrastination. Procrastination looms large in Out of Sheer…

As the government withers this column falls to ennui and visits Pizza Express. As David Cameron, who left the world…

I could map out my life geographically and temporally in scoops of ice cream. From the oyster delights handed over…

As I sat down to write this column, an old friend let me know he’d just been ‘debanked’. That is,…

The Farm, Laikipia Outside the nightjars were calling and a zebra brayed in the valley. The constellations were still bright…

When I received an email from the Co-op telling me they had made a mistake with my car insurance, and…

Gstaad There are lurid rumours circulating around this Alpine village that an international literature symposium has taken place, with some…