They stabbed it with their steely knives, but they just can’t kill the beast,’ sang the Eagles in ‘Hotel California’.…

In his call to arms at the black-tie dinner in Sydney Town Hall celebrating the Lowy Institute’s tenth anniversary, Rupert…

When the Sri Lankans launched a determined effort to rid their country of Tamil Tiger terrorism they made a big…

‘Terrifying.’ ‘Scary.’ The ABC’s Annabel Crabb is worried about the rise of digital media and the slow yet steady decline…

Paul McCartney has released a new album. But it is any good?

Far from being agitated, restless and frustrated, the 65-year-old heir to the throne is ready for prime time

Youngsters are staying away from drink, drugs, sex — you would too, if education and housing cost so much

They learn from an early age that without the perfect CV — and a clean Facebook — they don't stand a chance

Let's face it — we only challenge religions that won't hurt us, and governments that won't arrest us

You are just pedalling, you plastic-hatted ninnies, not saving the bloody planet

Why does the media hide the fact that she's for educational choice — as are so many developing nations?

As the Communist Party starts its plenum, what's at stake is not economics, but political power

The Sphinx, the pyramids and churches are being ransacked by looters and Islamists

The discovery of 1,400 paintings in a Munich flat is only a fraction of a much bigger picture

Don’t delay — this is the year to visit the National Arboretum. Thanks to the long hours of sunlight we…

As we wear poppies, let's remember we're still a nation that seeks to shape the world — not be shaped by it

Home Three Police Federation representatives accused of giving misleading accounts of a meeting with Andrew Mitchell over the Plebgate scandal…

Plus: Here's what to get Prince Charles for his 65th birthday

The festival goes nicely with the Spectator's addiction debate. Next: Epicurean week

Plus: Tesco's face-recognition cameras; maximum minimum wages

Pilfering politicians Sir: On first reading the article ‘Put the expenses “scandal” in perspective’ (2 November) I was in sleeping-dog-disturbing…

The current strategy to save the Union actually breaks the ties that bind us - along with the constitution

Plus: Meeting a young Young Fogey; my edgy fashion shoot; the Telegraph's birthday page is mine, all mine

It was three hours long but Boy wasn't bored, and I was completely immersed and utterly entranced

I won't be lectured by lazy sods who don't like what they see but want somebody else to do the work

Plus: Righteous Co-op Bank would have been safer if it had embraced oil, tobacco and drugs

Stephen Walsh's Mussorgsky and His Circle takes a look at the passionate, patriotic musicians of 19th century Russia

Alexander McCall Smith's 'What Auden Can Do For You' is endearing — I only disagree with one thing

Our Ancient and Modern columnist has written a book with something to relish on every page

I recommend Brother Kemal, Cross and Burn, Dead Woman Walking, Others of My Kind

Goffredo Fofi's Portrait of the Writer argues that a photo reveals much about an author. I'm not sure

But her book Peas and Queues gives good advice to youngsters about phone and plane etiquette

Bevis Hillier's The Virgin's Baby explores the infamous Russell trial — and a society that believed sperm could be passed through bathwater

What should be by your toilet next year? Contenders from Mitchell Symons, Stephen Poole, Graeme Garden and more

Roger Bristow's biography of Terry Frost makes us examine the artist's exuberant work with fresh eyes

Meic Stephens's wonderful biography on Rhys Davies may change the way the English regard Welsh writers

What it does have is some of the country's best houses, as Bailey and Pevsner point out in The Buildings of England

As a detective novel, Charles Palisser's Rustication is an exercise in pure form

I feel more strongly about this than ever, after reading Blanche Girouard's Portobello Voices

One Summer: America 1927 is entertaining — but needs editing

In 1863, the pioneering travel agent Thomas Cook took a group of British tourists on the first package holiday to…

Of all the sights of Australia’s long phase of cricket dominance, none was quite so characteristic as Ricky Ponting emerging…

A new production of Twelve Angry Men opens in the West End. What's your favourite trial drama?

The latest revival of Berg's opera at the ROH is buoyed by a strong musical performance

The V&A's once-in-a-lifetime exhibition is a sublime survey of Chinese treasures

There are similarities between ancient Chinese art and Rothko — I got hooked on both at the same time

David Storey's 'Home' is full of mothballed bile-mongers mourning for something we never knew

Seduced and Abandoned is both a satire on film-making and a love letter to film-making and a joy. A documentary…

Hofesh Shechter's show had a dangling figure in the first night, none in the second. Which is better?

Plus: David Cameron's brother in courtroom TV; special effects just hide a lack of confidence

'I’m not posting this on the internet. Why should I let you lazy, spoiled TV Babies read it for nothing?'

Are we part of the problem in Camus's The Outsider? A dramatisation of the book brings the message home

A documentary on YouTube pays homage to this terrifying sport that has the passenger's head inches from the ground

The men of Wall Street might call him a loser, but they’re fat and ugly and don't know the true value of things

Now I've nothing to write about in my Christmas cards to relatives in drought-ridden, bushfired Australia

Also, to the toothless person who was jogging on the tarmac — you can reclaim your dentures now

If young people want to join the media, they must figure out how to make online sites more profitable

Laid-back, relaxed Foinavon was given 100-1 odds of winning the 1967 race. Then disaster struck

Bridge is a great leveller: at some point, it makes fools of us all. As a result, it’s probably best…

Magnus Carlsen’s world title challenge to Vishy Anand commences on Saturday 9 November and continues to the end of this month.…

White to play. This position is from Karpov v. Korchnoi, Merano 1981. White’s next destroyed the black position. What did…

In Competition 2822 you were invited to submit an extract from a scene from a contemporary soap opera (television or…

The unclued lights, across and down respectively, are of a kind, all verifiable in Chambers.   Across   4 Single…

The unclued lights are CONDUCTORS (SARGENT is an anagram of the title STRANGE).   First prize Roderick Rhodes, Goldsborough, North…

Why is local politics so much dirtier than national politics? Is it because the players are fighting over relatively trivial…

Just give me £500,000 and a roomful of software coders

Plus: Gifts in the post that never arrive; speakerphone therapy

The Speaker was in trouble. I do not refer to Michael Martin or John Bercow, the two worst Speakers in…

I saw an advertisement for Active Gold Collagen, and I realised I didn’t know what collagen means. My husband just…