At six minutes past eight on the evening of Monday 3 March, the camera panned unexpectedly off the face of…

What an eccentric case the Race Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane mounted against the federal government’s proposal to amend section 18C…

During my illustrious career as Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs I had a visit from my counterpart in the…

Here’s a piece of news you may have missed. The EU has shelved its trade talks with India. At the…

Downtown Melbourne embraces skinny buildings more than three decades since they littered Manhattan

In the interests of a more civilised world, let the Commonwealth leaders trump democratic values

The first ever footy-playing Australian of the Year is ashamed to be an Australian

The upcoming senate election in Western Australia shows Paul Keating was right: the upper house is unrepresentative swill

Pax Americana died six years ago. We're now seeing what has taken its place

In Estonia, what's happening in Ukraine looks painfully familiar

Yes. But there are novelists working on that…

The Transport Secretary and former miner admits High Speed 2 won't be through parliament by the next general election

Beauty and pleasure have made way for moralising

Plus: Being Shakespeare (and Mary, and Judas, and Pontius Pilate)

I didn’t know. I still don’t

The Twenty20 World Cup and a tale of sporting double standards

The inspirational power of a unique city

For the first time in many years, the eyes of the world are on Crimea. As Russian troops violated Ukrainian…

Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said Russia was to blame for ‘violating the sovereignty and territorial integrity of another…

Plus: Russia’s military muscle, and how many British homes have rats

What it’s like when your show closes, and the truth about me and Ukip

A refreshingly classical approach to apology

Long Labor Sir: The insightfully worded editorial ‘The Sins of Craig Thomson’ (22 February) has historical echoes. The original ‘Blind…

Plus: Are the middle classes turning against immigration? And what Prince Charles loses by not hunting

We don't know what we're doing. So let's stop doing it

The mayor has a plan to take into care all children who are brought up with a bleak and nihilistic worldview. Does he include mine?

We're letting a living metropolis become a bank

Plus: The frenzy over AO.com, and business’s bad rap on stage

A review of A Spy Among Friends, by Ben Macintyre. The double agent's victims, unlike his family, were not the sort of people one bumped into at White's

A review of The Snowden Files, by Luke Harding. Did GCHQ break in and insert the clichés?

A review of The Madness of July, by James Naughtie. The broadcaster's clever first thriller leaves you in no doubt of his preferred reading

A review of Lawrence of Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East, by Scott Anderson. Increasing the cast list of T.E. Lawrence's story doesn't add to the interest

A review of God's Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England, by Jessie Childs. To see the power of 16th-century aristocrats, look at the ones being tracked as enemies of the state

A review of Countrymen, by Bo Lidegaard. Only one per cent of Danish Jews perished in the Holocaust. How they were saved is a story of courage and principle

A review of Bark, by Lorrie Moore and All the Rage, by A.L. Kennedy. Two terrific new collections

A review of Arctic Summer, by Damon Galgut. Portraying the novelist as a fusty, virginal defeatist doesn't make for thrilling fiction

Sensitive and ballsy, shy and flamboyant – this is a pop star, proud of being hard to pin down

Earworms are bad enough. But this meme might ruin your pop-listening life for ever

The BM's new blockbuster ranges as far and wide as the famously peripatetic marauders

ENO’s new production of the Handel opera is a musical feast. Plus: two brilliant evenings with Opera North

A freak factory in Soho Theatre's The One and a genial lecture by Simon Callow in Being Shakespeare

The Grand Budapest Hotel is the latest Wes Anderson film and it is beautiful to look at, scrumptious, luscious, such…

Where others see weaknesses, I see strengths. (But it's also giving me déjà vu...)

Radio 3 finds hope as well as horror in Rwanda 20 years on

BBC4’s Arena documentary shows just how biting – and tricky to make – the classic satirical series was

My first ever fight with Deborah Ross, and a few other fights to be going on with

'Are you in pain, Mr Clarke?' 'Absolute agony'

But it's no good. I'm from a family of Ukip-voting nimbys

This ghastly event seems to be the only one of New York's many national parades in which gay advocacy groups have any interest

We have, thank God, a realist in the saddle

Now and then an event enters the annual bridge calendar and becomes an instant ‘must play’. TGRs Auction Pairs is…

On Saturday 8 March the 132nd Varsity match between the teams of Oxford and Cambridge will see Oxford seeking to…

White to play. This position is from Robbins-Smith, Varsity Match 1972. The black king has been drawn out into the…

In Competition 2837 you were invited to submit a poem on the horrors of a reunion dinner. In days gone…

The unclued lights (and 4 Down + N) are of a kind and along with the suggestion given by the…

When preceded by GREAT, each unclued light yields a phrase listed in Brewer 19th edition.   First prize Mrs T.…

Why I can’t support the Shepherd’s Bush fair admissions campaign

This young golfer plays in the right way. Watch out for him

Plus: The rules on using 'sibling', and Instagram etiquette

An old haunt of Guardian journalists, now with a Telegraph editor in the kitchen

Who is McBess, and why can’t he draw eyes or count syllables?