Is this the first significant crack in the dam? This week, the UK Telegraph ran a story that should be…

Ignorance is bliss to young activists

Attack yourself and you’ll soon have no one to defend yourself

So why not charge him with fraud, rather than intent to defraud?

Manhattan malfeasance

Opening our eyes to the real world

The political centre is shifting distinctly to the right

For the best of the West, head east

EU policies are a joke but at least these ones are funny

Judicial activism undermines our democracy

Trump’s enemies have trashed the rule of law

Aleading member of Israel’s wartime cabinet has threatened to resign should Benjamin Netanyahu fail to present a strategy for ending…

Marine Le Pen’s National Rally – formerly the National Front – is expected to triumph for a third time running…

Last week, I had a drink with a Catholic priest friend who works with young people in custody. Inevitably, our…

My husband and I are in New York, where everyone is talking about the approaching Trump-Biden debate. Well, I’ll be…

‘London has become a jungle, right? Anyone with anything nice risks having it taken.’ Bobby, the manager of one of…

Another day closer to the general election and I’m at my daughter’s prep school in Oxfordshire. As has come to…

Nigel Farage had given less than a day’s notice, yet hundreds stood ready to welcome him on Tuesday morning on…

For more than 30 years, I have knocked on doors and dutifully recorded voting intentions. I’m sure every party has…

Think of Majorca and what do you picture? Maybe it is elegant tapas bars in the Gothic quarter of Palma,…

Hugh Jones was 29 when he was killed in action. On Wednesday, the eve of the 80th anniversary of D-Day,…

At your service Sir: National service is a contentious issue with many people including the Armed Forces themselves (‘Identity crisis’,…

On Tuesday night I was body double/understudy for the brave, brainy, beautiful Rachel Riley, at a packed ‘support Israel’ evening.…

Home Nigel Farage took over leadership of the Reform party from Richard Tice and is standing for parliament in Clacton.…

Has Humpty-Trumpty had a great fall, or a great bounce? That will depend on what the Great American Public thinks…

If Britain had not left the European Union, we would be going to the polls this week as well as…

‘Tony Blair walks on water.’ Decades ago this statement led a Times photographer and me to the front door of…

Last Thursday evening a companionable London dinner party was just wrapping up when our hostess returned to the table brandishing…

I watched Tuesday night’s leaders’ election debate with fellow guests at a party to launch Conservative Revolution, a book to…

There was a very excitable young man on Sky News last week, talking about the Sky/YouGov MRP poll which suggested…

The City is having a busier year than pessimistic observers – including me – might have expected. The biggest deal…

Violet Moller focuses on three 16th-century‘heroes of science’, John Dee, Nicolaus Copernicus and Tycho Brahe, and their great libraries and observatories

Mark Bostridge’s obsession with Victor Hugo’s beautiful daughter almost rivals her own infatuation with Albert Pinson, the naval officer she pursued around the world

Shocked to find that his Cheyenne forebears had been imprisoned in Florida, Orange was inspired to write a story of displacement and abuse spanning generations

Rose Boyt describes posing naked over many nights – supplied with purple hearts by Freud to keep her awake – and her shock on finally seeing the result

As we continue to fill the depths with plastic and radioactive waste, our coastlines are increasingly battered by tsunamis and erosion

First welcomed, then vilified, by Lenin, Russian artists such as Malevich, Tatlin, Kandinsky and Chagall would find their only real supporters in the West

Having abandoned her marriage and her career as a lawyer, Debré re-emerges as a lesbian, a writer, and a seducer equal to Casanova

An obscure 18th-century Presbyterian minister’s insights into statistics are still valued today in making strategic economic decisions and forecasts

When Wallis’s jewellery collection disappeared from under the bed one night in Surrey in 1946, was this a misfortune, or carelessness, or planned fraud?

Churchill detested Stalin, but Britain and the US needed his help against an even worse enemy. Giles Milton reveals the true nature of the Big Three’s dysfunctional relationship

A garrulous nonagenarian and his patient carer make a long train trip to Sarajevo, hoping to solve a decades-old murder mystery

Sunset Boulevard is one of the weirdest entertainment phenomena in the history of the world because it starts as a…

Because you don’t – I hope – use TikTok you will never have heard of the Wilking sisters. But back…

Every Hamlet is a failure. It always feels that way because playgoers tend to compare what they’re seeing with a…

Fast times on Mount Olympus. Jupiter has been shagging around again and now his wife Juno has bailed on their…

For a television talent show, Afghan Star had unusually high stakes. When it first hit Afghanistan’s screens in 2005, four…

Work – in the sense of toil – is about the last thing a 19th-century painter wished to be associated…

Richard Linklater’s Hit Man is a minor Linklater but a minor Linklater is still an event. Also, after all those…

As long ago as the 1960s, the poet Edward James was worried that traditional crafts were dying out. Having frittered…

Encomium or insult, tribute or travesty; the line between portrait and caricature can be a very fine one. Readers who…

This is an appeal to Speccie readers to join a modest campaign to ban the use of ‘begs the question’.…

There was a wonderful old boy called John – Sir John – Wordie, who was a quintessential member of the…

Q. I am on a long, jam-packed and much disrupted train journey to Scotland. In the carriage someone is working…

It happened six years ago on a flight back from the United States. ‘Sir, I’m pleased to say you’ve been…

On Saturday morning, when I was helping Caroline prepare for a lunch party, I got an urgent request for help…

‘Bear with me,’ said my husband on the phone and then let out a loud roar. It was intended to…

Laikipia, Kenya This month, in broad daylight on our Kenyan farm, a lioness mauled one of my bull calves. Before…

A few days after having Sunday lunch at the hotel where Michael Collins ate his last meal, we found ourselves…

One of my exes is trying to get me arrested. I discovered this when I received an email from the…