Somebody needs to send Andrew Bragg, Tim Wilson, Dave Sharma and their bed-wetting cohort application forms to join the Teals.…

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Blowing up drug boats is the easy part

Renewables disaster looms as ideology crashes into reality

The damage could be even worse than the dotcom crash

Marx, Lennon and Davos share the same dream

Next Tuesday will mark the 50th anniversary of the occasion on which governor-general Sir John Kerr legitimately employed a power,…

Not Kean on exporting emissions

Lefties projecting their very worst traits

Vote strategically

Mash’s older brother was the same age as Anthony Williams when he slaughtered a stranger in a brutal and random…

China’s naked weaponisation of rare earths brings to mind Mao Zedong’s ‘four pests’ campaign, the old tyrant’s fanatical effort to…

Washington, D.C. When John Swinney, the SNP leader, and Peter Mandelson visited Donald Trump in the Oval Office a few…

Like Zohran Mamdani in New York, Zack Polanski offers the thrill of cost-free rebellion. Mamdani leapt to prominence at the…

On a grey autumn morning, the apples in the National Fruit Collection look vivid. They pile up in pyramids of…

There is an adage, attributed to author Robert Heinlein, that every generation thinks it invented sex. This often means finding…

The police initially treated last weekend’s stabbings on a train near Huntingdon as a possible terror attack, before confirming it…

For the first time in decades, King Charles has a new pet dog, a lagotto Romagnolo called Snuff. Queen Camilla…

Minimum requirement Sir: Some of Charles Moore’s observations about the minimum wage are pertinent (Notes, 1 November). However, what many…

Austere environment Who introduced the word ‘austerity’ into the political lexicon? While chiefly associated with attacks on the Conservatives, and…

The most extraordinary thing about Andrew Mountbatten Windsor is that he seems to have no sense of shame. That word…

Home The King ‘initiated a formal process to remove the Style, Titles and Honours of Prince Andrew’, who is now…

Nearly a year after my final Radio 4 shift, my new interview podcast has launched, and the weeks are more…

The New York senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan was that rare figure in politics – a progressive who followed the facts.…

Call me hard-hearted, but I doubt even a magic mushroom-induced tantric visualisation of a harmonious universe could transport me into…

You may remember that in February the BBC found itself in a spot of bother regarding a film about the…

With three weeks until the Budget, the main political parties have been setting out their economic thinking. Each faces the…

Critics see Rachel Reeves as betraying her election manifesto tax promises; but she may well be trying ‘The Lady’s Not…

On a long flight there’s an instant, and perhaps you’ve noticed it, when a very slight alteration in the pitch…

I learnt not to intervene on a late summer’s afternoon nine years ago. My son was still a baby and…

There is an unhappy history of left-wing Britons getting involved in US elections. Back in 2004, the Guardian organised a letter-writing campaign,…

The trad wife, happy to defer to her husband in all matters, is today’s ideal – a far cry from the female snipers and fighter pilots of the Leninist era

Luca Cesari describes pizza’s journey from the poor man’s staple of 18th-century Naples to today’s global favourite, worth billions

George Owers evokes the seismic cultural divisions between the parties – with different coffee houses attended, wines drunk, doctors consulted and fashions preferred

Letters between Golding and Faber’s Charles Monteith reveal just how much the author owed to his editor – not least in the choice of book titles

Sucked further into the quicksand of 1960s espionage, Gabriel Dax is sent to Guatemala, and then on to West Berlin, where he uncovers a plot to assassinate President Kennedy

Delightful oddities include: foreign equivalents of ‘Joe Bloggs’; alternatives to the word ‘Hello’; and El Greco’s offer to repaint the Sistine Chapel

Recommendations include: Melbourne Hall Garden, by Jodie Jones; The English Landscape Garden, by Tim Richardson; and Diary of a Keen Gardener, by Mary Keen

The French writer Sylvain Tesson feels anxiety lift, bitterness vanish and travel transform into prayer in the course of a ski journey across the Alps, spread over four winters

Judging by his autobiography, it’s no wonder the actor was in such demand to play devils, killers, bullies, werewolves and ruthless kings

Popular choices include: Look Closer, by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst; Clown Town, by Mick Herron; The Finest Hotel in Kabul, by Lyse Doucet

It’s strange the way comedy lives. A legion of the young continue to listen to Pete and Dud or watch…

Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty has been turned into a stage show directed by Michael Grandage. We’re in the…

The winter nights may be drawing in and everyone is down with stinking colds as the civilised world inexorably disintegrates,…

I once came up with a brilliant idea for a children’s Sunday-evening TV series. It would follow the adventures of…

Grade: B+ The 20th century, eh? What a lark that was. Vladimir Dukelsky studied in Kiev under Glière and looked…

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein stars Oscar Isaac (Baron Victor Frankenstein) and Jacob Elordi (‘the creature’) and retells the basics of…

In the early 1970s my father moved offices and I was plucked out of my cosy prep school in Surrey…

The Two Roberts, Robert MacBryde (1913-66) and Robert Colquhoun (1914-62), are figures of a lost British bohemia. Both born in…

The room is dark, the lighting deliberately low. At its centre stands a solitary object: a yellow and green earthenware…

If you lived in the 1760s and were affluent enough – and curious enough – science could be a family…

As this great metropolis falls apart, I’m hearing Australians are getting too cynical. But that’s not it at all. As…

I’m sure I can’t be the only person irritated by the word ‘wellness’. It is the most fashionable of all…

That Panzer’s Delicatessen in St John’s Wood is called Panzer’s – for the instrument of Blitzkrieg – is mad, until…

‘Gosh he seems full of himself’ was how my friend’s wife reacted when she came in to see Henry Pollock…

Q. An extremely old friend is a successful purveyor of high-end goods. Last time we saw him he invited us…

‘What fresh hell can this be?’ Dorothy Parker would ask if the doorbell rang. Now fresh hell has been freshly…

It was Frank Johnson who as The Spectator’s editor asked me to mix my then day job as the BBC’s…

I’m writing this from Washington, D.C., where I’ve spent the best part of a week talking to politicos and thinktankers…

Dante’s Beach, Ravenna I was in the Land Rover Defender with Rita, my youngest daughter (16), parked up near Dante’s…

As I was showing a couple from Lincolnshire to their room, I smelt a rat. I don’t mean metaphorically, about…