Seasoned air travellers are familiar with the sight of a swarm of masked and gloved cleaners waiting to rush on…

In Canberra a parliamentary committee is considering whether to recommend a huge transfer of power from the elected executive government…

Labor is entirely to blame for the Voice fiasco but the Libs will have to clean up the mess

Hooked on P.J. O’Rourke

Chalmers must have his eyes on the Lodge rather than on our economic future

First comes the ‘Voice’, then the ‘Invoice’

14 October is a pivotal moment for Western civilisation

The next variant?

Tell the Minoans the science is settled

Woke cancel culture threatens some of our greatest works of art

Labor’s plans to enshrine a new, elite upper class

Who broke Britain?

Having a pet is worse for the planet than flying

The death of Françafrique

The pandemic has hit our children even harder than we thought

Gina Miller on Brexit, farmers and her ambitious plans for Epsom

Confessions of a Lego addict

Last month India managed to land a spacecraft on the moon for a third of the price of refurbishing Hammersmith…

To understand the political journey of Sir Keir Starmer, look to Liz Kendall. This week the Blairite and one-time leadership…

We must all hurry down to the Temperate House at Kew Gardens next month to enjoy Queer Nature After Hours,…

If any readers are having those September, back-to-work blues perhaps I might offer them a sure-fire palliative? Just go online…

The Texas Supreme Court just upheld a state law banning so-called gender-affirming care for minors, to explosive consternation from predictable…

An Institute for Fiscal Studies paper, published at the end of last month, makes grim reading. Through the prism of…

A 2023 book about a 1987 film set in 1969, in which multiple characters mourn the end of an era, told through interviews, memorabilia and testimonials from besotted fans

How it all began: Di Taverner, Service legend David Cartwright and the rest of the Slow Horses make themselves known to the reader in an origin story disguised as a follow-up

In 1927, A.J. Liebling sailed from America to study medieval literature at the Sorbonne. Instead, he taught himself how to eat French food

Such was the emotion Anne Boleyn inspired in Henry VIII. But before long that scalding love had turned to a brutalising hatred of his second wife, culminating in her bloody beheading

As a one-nation Tory, Rory Stewart was not a good fit in the party’s new incarnation. We discover how his desire to make the world a better place was always going to work against him

Set in the near future, the novel examines what is necessary to make us human – while showcasing the base behaviour of those lucky enough to be born with the right genes

Four days after she last saw her, Natasha Walter’s mother Ruth took her own life. The loss throws Natasha into a desperate search for meaning by examining Ruth’s peace-activist past and beyond

Many thousands of women acted as messengers, radio operators and double agents behind enemy lines in both world wars. Here, these resilient and resolute pioneers are retrieved from the mists of history

Lucy Hughes-Hallett admires the brave and wayward Duchess of Newcastle, whose idiosyncratic writings astonished 17th-century English society

The Australian Book Review poetry prize is upon us again and it’s worth mentioning that the ABR editor Peter Rose,…

‘My daughter’s moving to Saffron Walden, away from all this,’ said the railway man at Stratford station, gesturing at the…

Macbeth at the Globe wants to put us at our ease and make us feel comfortable with the play’s arcane…

Grade: A– The point of a sudden, abrupt change in the time signature and instrumentation of a song is to…

Bad Behaviour is a decidedly solemn new Australian drama series with plenty to be solemn about. It was billed in…

Quite when the concept of coolness became a thing is uncertain, even to etymologists. As early as 1884, an academic…

The fun starts early in Beckett’s Endgame. Within minutes of opening his mouth, blind bully Hamm decides to starve his…

We used to call it a ‘meat and two veg’ programme, back in my concert planning days: the reliable set…

Past Lives is an exquisite film made with great precision and care about what could have been, even if what…

Adam Sweeting talks to Graham Nash about Joni Mitchell, the Hollies and the birth of Crosby, Stills and Nash in the Laurel Canyon idyll of the 1960s

Presumably, you don’t get to become head of football’s governing body in a football-mad country like Spain without putting in…

Here’s a brand new Australian political expression I’ve just coined: ‘cane toad politics’. I expect it to take its place…

The Romans wrote the history, or at least the myths. But long before Romulus murdered Remus, the Mediterranean – the…

Among devotees of the full English breakfast, few things polarise more than the inclusion of baked beans. Some people are…

At the age of 59 I thought it was time to get my body thoroughly examined. So last week I…

Racing at Cartmel probably began in the 15th century when Brother John wagered a mug of ale with Brother Cain…

‘We’re renegades now. We’re outlaws. Bandits.’ This was my assessment as the builder boyfriend pulled up outside the house in…