Only three Labor leaders since the second world war have won government from opposition; Gough Whitlam, Bob Hawke and Kevin…

Nine years of Coalition failure

Hated by the Left , Orban thrives

Why did so many public health experts fall for obviously flawed predictions?

Taxpayers will be left to pick up the pieces

Politics not economics

If you can’t understand half this article, nor can we

The idiocy of gender justice in disasters

No room in the broad church for conservatives

No need for Labor-Greens-Voices alliance

When did they get so expensive?

The politics of prosecution

Conflict has always had its limits

The decline of male friendship

I was sitting alone at a small table in the Wolseley, Piccadilly, waiting for my supper and feeling a sense…

The fate of Lukashenko depends on Ukraine

It’s the progressives vs the populists, Macron vs Orban

Holyrood is one of the most opaque regimes in the democratic world

Can Imran Khan cling on to power in Pakistan?

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Whatever advantages money may have brought Rishi Sunak as he rose to become Chancellor of the Exchequer, his wealth has…

Historians in Russia have a long and craven record, now going back centuries, of being economical with the truth about…

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The lie’s the thing Sir: Your leading article (‘Partygate’s hangover’, 2 April) maintains that if the Prime Minister receives a…

I see that on the issue of gay conversion therapy, the Prime Minister has been floating around all over the…

I have remarked here before about our era’s tendency to accept election results if your side wins but to reject…

I think it’s time we stopped scaring the children. I think they’ve had enough. They’re at breaking point now, every…

David Canzini has made quite an impression since he joined No. 10 as the Prime Minister’s deputy chief of staff…

Now that events in Ukraine are restoring a sense of proportion about the difference between aggressive autocracies and free countries,…

Enough of stagflation forecasts, each more frightening than the last. Enough – for now – of energy policy sermons, as…

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In 2010, Mark Kennedy, a tattooed social justice warrior, was exposed as an undercover police officer. In this guise he…

There was a time when you could read a book to keep up to date about a subject. Well, that’s…

‘Whenever you see a character in a novel, let alone a biography or history book, reduced and neatened into three…

Norman Scott’s long-anticipated memoir reveals the British Establishment at its worst, says Roger Lewis

When the Restoration of the Stuart monarchy, in the person of that ‘lovely black boy’ Charles II, was announced in…

If you have ever thought that there cannot be anything new to say or to learn about the Queen, you…

‘Who is AOC?’ the back cover of this book asks. ‘A wack job!’ says Donald Trump. ‘She needs to run…

Like yesterday, there’s the memory of William Weaver, the great translator from the Italian of Umberto Eco’s The Name of…

Compartment No. 6 is set aboard a long train journey across Russia, a country we don’t hear much of these…

Utopia, Limited (1893) is a rare bird, and one that every Gilbert and Sullivan completist simply has to bag. The…

In 2014, an exhibition of watercolours by the renowned avian artist, John James Audubon, opened in New York. The reviews,…

One wouldn’t want to be on the wrong side of Tamara Rojo. The most fearsome figure on the British dance…

The NT has rejigged Hamlet for 8- to 12-year-old children. It’s a decent attempt to cover the highlights at a…

Stormzy occupies a curious place in British pop culture right now. He’s the darling of liberals for all his good…

Don’t read James Joyce’s Ulysses, says John Phipps. Listen to it

Art That Made Us is an ambitious new series, firmly in the ‘history of something in a load of different…

April is the cruellest month for anybody who despairs at the state of contemporary humour. Where are the Ealing comedies…

The expression ‘to walk back’ has exploded over the news recently. We have been told by the news media that…

I’m not sure what to think about the BBC’s announcement that it wants a quarter of its staff to be…

It’s a game for the ages all right, City againstLiverpool on Sunday as the Premier League moves to its most…

White to play. Duda-Anton Guijarro, Charity Cup, March 2022. Black’s last move, 21…Qe7-b4 was an unforced error. Which move did…

The unclued lights and eight clued without thematic definition are of a kind, expressly confirmed in a section of Chambers.…

In Competition No. 3243, you were invited to submit a poem about the recent discovery of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance.…

A light was on in the caravan site office so I went over to try and buy a gas canister.…

Sergey Karjakin won’t be playing much chess for a while. Last month, the Russian grandmaster’s Twittering jingoism in support of…

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My friend Emily, who once got an owl stuck to her hand, was bringing her son for a day with…

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One hundred or so years ago, a down-in-the-dumps Joseph Roth wrote to Stefan Zweig: ‘The barbarians have taken over.’ Later…

The unclued lights are phrases which include the numbers from 1 to 7, with 1 featured twice. First prize John…

Delayed, on Southern Rail Home From the Hill is a 1987 documentary by Molly Dineen about Hilary Hook, an elderly…