It has been a while since this magazine felt any great desire to praise the Coalition for fresh new policy…

The Albanese government seems to have abandoned its plan to increase the size of the parliament and give us the…

Conservatives who won’t conserve

Morality versus economics

Imagine paying for a public broadcaster that works against you

Over half our economy is now driven by government

What reparations are owed to the victims of enforced marriages?

Why leftists cannot govern

Monitoring how Labor manages our energy supplies

When responsibility for war crimes runs downhill

An ossified duopoly dooms Australia to decay, waste and impoverishment

Contrary to popular conception, I’m not a great baker. I was hired by Bake Off for my judging experience, not…

Donald Trump’s latest clash with the Catholic Church stunned even the most hardened veterans of culture-war Twitter. According to the…

Last month, a new account called London Price Drop appeared on X. It has already gained more than 14,000 followers…

The 17.48 from Paddington does not, on first sight, seem exceptional. Over-hard seats, over-bright lights and a scrum at the…

Midway through James Joyce’s Ulysses, the character J.J. O’Molloytips his hat to ‘Our watchful friend, the Skibbereen Eagle’, a playful…

A fuel protestor stood on top of a tractor waving a tricolor. In Ireland, everything is about nationhood and the…

‘I fucking hate Marmite,’ said Andy McLeod, a young ad man who at some point in the mid-1990s was tasked…

Last week our cookery writer Olivia Potts scooped the world by revealing that AB World Foods was to cease production…

Elizabeth II was never particularly enthusiastic about birthdays. They were a good excuse for a parade or an honours list,…

When Britons go to the polls next month, the results will likely reveal just how un-United the Kingdom has become.…

Home Lord Robertson of Port Ellen, the former secretary general of Nato, said: ‘We are under attack. We are not…

Hero worship Peter Magyar, the new PM of Hungary, has the unique distinction among world leaders of bearing the name…

Apollo, Artemis and Orion have not been named at random. The first two are brother and sister, and all three…

Same old Sir: In Michael Simmons’s otherwise excellent yet alarming essay on ‘Benefits treats’ (11 April), one sentence spoiled the…

When John Healey was asked, on stage at the London Defence Conference, whether the armed forces were ‘ready’ for war,…

It was a matter of some disappointment to me that Kanye West was barred entry to this country as a…

On Tuesday, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport approved the sale of my employers, the Telegraph Group, to Axel…

The bombing of the Revolutionary government in Iran is drawing comparisons with the war in Iraq. But the comparisons are…

Can there be any thinking person who has passed a lorry filled with live animals peering out through the slats…

When war is in the air, young men traditionally sign up – and they traditionally sign up, disproportionately, from the…

What with headlines focused on the Strait of Hormuz and scare stories about out-of-control AI, forecasts of a storm in…

Relegated to a servants’ hall soon after it was finished, the double portrait ‘Pink and Blue’ may have been caught up in a swirl of rumours about its subjects’ mother

DeepMind’s brilliant co-founder Demis Hassabis hopes to ‘create a machine that can occupy a position in the cosmos once ascribed to an all-powerful divinity’

Of particular note was the lawyer Harriet Zetterberg, who compiled the case against Hans Frank, and Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, the first concentration camp survivor to testify

Gustav Mahler looks back on the pleasures and pains of the past from the windblown deck of SS Amerika on his final journey across the Atlantic

When Pravda Vostoka misprinted Joseph Stalin’s military rank on 25 October 1944, most of the print run was destroyed and the editorial team was shot

Stein coined the phrase to describe the disillusioned writers and artists she mentored – but it is the woman herself who proves most elusive

Gordon McCullan explores the representation in art and literature over the centuries of a much maligned bird

Patrick Radden Keefe investigates the mystery of Zac Brettler’s fall from the balcony of a luxury riverside apartment into the Thames one November night in 2019

It’s cheering to hear very promising reports of Barrie Kosky’s production of Siegfried at Covent Garden suggesting that the Melbourne-born…

You’re never too old to dance we are told nowadays. This encouraging injunction has been taken up by everyone from…

The dark side of the Moon, a broken loo and a floating jar of Nutella: such was Artemis II. When…

When following up a successful sitcom, should a writer head off into new territory or not? That was the question…

Do Belle and Sebastian have the most polite audience in pop? Normally when a pop singer leaves the stage to…

Glenrothan is Brian Cox’s directorial debut and I wish there were a nicer way of putting it but, Brian: please,…

Anyone for a spot of acoustic science? Apparently the distinctive colour of a musical note is concentrated almost wholly in…

I feared this summing-up of Tracey Emin’s career might be self-congratulatory – biennale here, damehood there. But it’s Emin at…

Copenhagen by Michael Frayn is a problem play. It debuted at the National in 1998 and ran for two years…

It occurs to me only now that I might have spent far too much time in France. Indeed, so familiar…

‘Hypocorism’ is another strange and wonderful word (hip-OCK-ah-riz-um.) The Oxford’s definition is: ‘pet name’. But there is a bit more…

St Arnaud is a tiny speck on the map of Australia. The western Victorian town is surrounded by farmland and…

It’s easy to be sceptical about top sportsmen turning to psychologists for help. A bit precious, no? After all, what’s…

There are few things more delicious than falling down a rabbit hole. No, don’t worry, I’m not serving up a…

Brasserie Angelica is the – is the word signature? – restaurant inside the Newman, Fitzrovia, a new hotel that has…

Having trained the runner-up in the Grand National twice – and once in the Topham Chase for good measure –…

Q. I went to a party last weekend and my father asked me to go and introduce myself if I…

The plumber was shouting hysterically at me down the phone because I had asked him to install a heated towel…

The unclued lights are linked to the title, two using the same thematic content. Across 11    Search volunteer army among…

Automation is about to take over the world, apparently. But the fightback has begun. On a cold, blowy day a…

I was leaving the CNN presidential election night party at dawn in 2016, having celebrated Donald Trump’s victory, when Paul…

For Competition 3445 you were invited to provide a sonnet to a previously overlooked body part.In a stellar week –…