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Melbourne is presently engaged in one of those uniquely Melburnian controversies where everyone has an opinion on some allegedly moral…

Time to decolonise the dunny

Let’s stop funding the ABC

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‘You cannot reform a snake. Venom is in its DNA.’

When ‘great leaders’ play the Great Game

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There appears to be a missing chapter in the story of Andy Burnham. Depending on the whims of voters in…

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Among examples used to demonstrate the law of unintended consequences is the possibly apocryphal ‘cobra effect’. British colonial administrators in…

The World Cup has never been just a football tournament. Even if we don’t realise it at the time, it…

Hans-Georg Maassen is an unlikely dissident. In his trademark three-piece suits and small glasses, he looks more like a law…

Norman Balon, who has died at the age of 99, missed the point when he defined himself as ‘London’s rudest…

All my life I have been obsessed by black and white birds. Magpies are my tormentors, my morning omens of…

Although the past few footballing weeks have been dominated by the convulsive conclusion to Arsenal’s season – and the upcoming…

Home A horrible video circulated on social media of a man on the ground in a Belfast street being stabbed…

Few critiques of British mythmaking have been more astute than that of Correlli Barnett. He argued that 18th-century statesmen were…

King’s College Cambridge has lost (according to the papers) a ‘famous’ classicist, who resigned because he slobbered wet kisses all…

Badger over Bard The Bank of England is to discontinue issuing banknotes with historic figures in favour of animals. Which…

Con’s the word Sir: In his article ‘Neo con’ (6 June) Michael Simmons claims that neoliberalism powered this country into…

There was a moment backstage, before I interviewed Kemi Badenoch for a Spectator event this week, when I felt like…

What has been remarkable about Henry Nowak’s case was not the story itself, tragic though it is, but the potency…

Every so often, a fashionable new concept is born. Witness the arrival of ‘matrescence’, which, for the uninitiated, is a…

Mark Nowak, father of the murdered Henry Nowak, spoke powerfully in public after Vickrum Digwa was convicted of the crime.…

I get the sense that the political and media class badly miss Katie Hopkins. Back when the reality TV star…

The Rt Revd Martyn Snow, the handsome and up-to-date Bishop of Leicester, has decided that it’s OK, even admirable, for…

To the London Stock Exchange (LSE) for a ‘scale-up capital’ circus in which 18 ambitious tech ventures had ten minutes…

Set in ‘one of the well-known seasonal waterside art towns of Kent’, Harrison’s novel is both a bracing vision of environmental collapse and a post-Brexit cri de coeur

An American archivist, hired to catalogue an elderly baronessa’s antiques, finds himself drawn into increasingly absurd adventures in the Italian countryside

The many legends of humans and gods taking owl form continue to give the ghostly nocturnal predator an indefinable allure

Charles Dickens is cast as a cruel, coercive controller, accusing the mother of his ten children of idleness and stupidity before discarding her for a younger woman

The passionate EU supporter seems to scold Britain for taking a contrary path while barely acknowledging the rights and freedoms the British have long taken for granted

The once popular king was forced into exile in 2014 when rumours of profligacy, illegitimate children and ‘an unbridled sexual appetite’ finally caught up with him

In August 1991, Vladimir Kryuchkov, the head of the KGB, attempted to oust President Gorbachev. But the plot’s failure was guaranteed when the army refused to fire on protestors

For three months in Twickenham in 1726, Pope and his guests John Gay and Jonathan Swift worked on their satirical masterpieces while entertaining each other with their repartee

An entirely invented memoir, supposedly relaying the wisdom of a Mexican guru, was not only a cult bestseller but was endorsed by anthropologists and even UCLA

The other day saw the opening of the Peter Corrigan Collection at RMIT which comprises his personal collection of architectural…

Steven Spielberg has said his latest film, Disclosure Day, is ‘the summation of my life in science fiction’, which began…

Bertolt Brecht’s classic, Mother Courage, is about a female war profiteer who drags a wagon of supplies through no man’s…

The first thing I did after getting home from the Barbican the other week was google ‘Aldous Harding neurodivergent’. It…

At just over two hours, Martin Scorsese’s 1991 remake of Cape Fear was 20 minutes longer than the 1962 original.…

It’s impossible to say what Rossini would have made of Glyndebourne’s production of Il turco in Italia, but you can…

From 1940, at Benton End, near Hadleigh in Suffolk, the artist Cedric Morris brought his eye to breeding irises. Eliminating…

In the artistic pecking order, illustration long languished behind what were seen as the fine arts, even though it was…

‘Chloe’, Young and Jackson’s famously elongated dining room nude is a Rorschach test for people who say they know a…

‘Codswallop’ means ‘Nonsense, rubbish, drivel’. The experts at the Oxford think they have nailed it down. They write, ‘Popularised in…

Ihad a culinary revelation this week. I like to think I’m an egalitarian when it comes to food – I…

In 1949, the 18th Earl of Derby revived the tradition of the Derby Club dinner in London, three days before…

Like many people, I’ve been bemoaning the woke capture of our security services for some time. In 2024, Sir Richard…

Dante’s Beach, Ravenna When I was still beautiful, a famous Italian TV art historian and politician chose me to be…

‘I’m Native American,’ said one half of the honeymooning couple from Plattsburgh, holding out a small gift as they left.…

It would have been my mother’s 84th birthday on 29 May. I thought about her as I clattered down the…

In the vermuterias of downtown Palma, locals talk of little other than ‘totality’. That is, the moment on 12 August,…

Q. Mary, can you rule on an aspect of private jet etiquette? I have been invited to a house party…

Cricketers Have Beer, Shock: well, who knew! This wretched incident in some joint in Chelsea involving Ben Stokes and Gus…

As seen in the Telegraph Two thoughts on the sad and controversial death of Henry Nowak. The first is about…

My husband’s task was a simple one: to buy a couple of bottles of water from the Morrisons opposite the…

Competition 3453 invited you to describe a new, infallible personal regime that promised to make one healthy, rich and irresistible.…