Bushfire notebook
If a wombat, a dog and a tiger snake can be friends during a bushfire, why can't politicians?
The battle of the bushmen
Already evicted, tortured and deprived of water, the bushmen face devastating new restrictions
Passion player
The actress on her father's South Bank dream, politicians' paltry pay, and her vodka cure
Arthur Laffer: how cuts succeeded where stimulus failed
High government spending increases unemployment and slows economic recovery
The morality gap
Why is it that some nations are moving forward on gay and women's rights, while others are moving backwards?
Notes on … Skiing in Austria
I have spent a week of every winter of my life with my family in Zürs, a small village in…
Neither saint nor sage
The writer was consistently inconsistent in his political views — and was no fun at all, says Robert Colls in English Rebel
Exposing the art mafia
Is the art world run by a mafia? Philip Hook alphabetises the auction world in Breakfast at Sotheby's
Sheer genius
The composer was a complex genius, shows John Eliot Gardiner in Music in the Castle of Heaven
In Papa’s footsteps
The second tome of the Sandra Spanier edition is out — though Papa didn't want his correspondence published
Ashes to ashes
Bombing in Europe was never a winning strategy, says Richard Overy in The Bombing War
Bertie Wooster in the commentary box
Henry Blofeld's sunny biography, Squeezing the Orange, contains the shadow of what he might have been
‘I shall surely sing’
Morrissey's tender autobiography is a good accompaniment to the music of The Smiths
Clash of the Titans
Gladstone vs Disraeli, Victoria vs Albert — Simon Heffer shows where his sympathies lie in High Minds
The courage of her convictions
I Am Malala tells of the 16-year-old's astonishing courage, and what she's up against
‘The last wild man of modern art’
The 'last wild man of modern art' says he makes his mistakes work for him
Flight of the imagination
A retrospective at the Grand Palais shows the artist's refusal to rest on the wing
In defence of developers
London's Bedford Square and Regents Park show beautiful city planning is possible
Entertaining romp
The ENB's Le Corsaire makes you feel like you've plunged into the illustrations of dance history book
