This week sees the 30th anniversary of the election of one of Australia’s greatest governments, the Howard government. If Australia…

Are they now the weakest link?

Why a bullying China wants its Darwin port

Remembering the last worthwhile government this country had

It’s certainly up there

Where judges give themselves the power to rule

The tariff decision proves the wisdom of the US Supreme Court

Informing on and denouncing your fellow citizens is now Australian law

Adelaide’s toxic talkfest is back from the dead

Radical insurgents will never leave us alone

Importing Islamist radicalism from Cairo to Lakemba

No TV show better encapsulates the nexus between money and power than Industry. The HBO drama sees investment bankers screwing,…

The Epstein files lift the curtain on how power is exercised and influence traded by our financial elite. It is…

The crowded market place emerging on Britain’s right is bewildering. Nigel Farage and Reform UK appeared to have successfully colonised…

Catherine and Heathcliff. These are surely roles that every attractive British actor should aspire to. Why mope between auditions for…

My family name has become a byword for scandal. My father Robert went from press baron to tabloid monster within…

Peros Banhos on the Chagos archipelago looks like your basic tropical island paradise: turquoise waters and golden sands, waves lapping…

The Russians are on the warpath – and Europe is Vladimir Putin’s next target. That was Sir Keir Starmer’s alarming…

For more than 60 years, scientists have been on the stealthiest stakeout in history. Using state-of-the-art listening devices, they’ve tapped…

Iloved my moustache. Unfortunately, my fondness for it seemed inversely proportionate to its popularity among my peers. After much unsolicited…

When self-styled ‘Money Saving Expert’ Martin Lewis gate-crashed Kemi Badenoch’s Good Morning Britain interview to reprimand the Conservative leader over…

Never one for introspection, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has still managed to provoke some searching questions about the institution he once served.…

Home Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested on his 66th birthday on suspicion of misconduct in public office, and released under investigation.…

Defence agreement Sir: If (a big ‘if’, I know) our politicians really would like to address the parlous state of…

Some Labour MPs are demanding that Colonel Alistair Carns, a former Royal Marine who served in the military for 24…

Out of line Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor may be removed from the line of succession. When was the last time this happened?…

The interesting thing about political pendulums is that they always over-swing. In the campaign for this week’s Gorton and Denton…

‘The Special Relationship only exists when the Americans want something,’ a former Downing Street aide observed after Donald Trump rejected…

The death of Quentin Deranque is strangely under-reported here. He was a 23-year-old beaten up in Lyon on 12 February…

Sometimes things work out much better than one could have imagined, as if God, looking down, had decided that for…

This is a two-parter, albeit linked. If you’re interested in the duplicitousness of British journalists, then keep reading. If you’re…

There are elements of economic life, such as the impact of President Donald Trump’s ever-changing tariffs, that are far beyond…

The challenges faced by the minor Welsh earl with tenuous claims to the English throne shattered his health, weakened his grip on affairs and eventually lost him the trust of his subjects

When the great Left Bank establishment was requisitioned by the Abwehr in 1940, the staff continued to serve the new guests with their habitual courtesy – and even welcomed them back postwar

Nigel Biggar argues eloquently for countering ‘cancel culture’ with classical liberalism – but a far more fanatical anti-woke ideology is gathering pace

While the past can never provide ‘how to’ guides for the future, Odd Arne Westad makes some interesting comparisons between the balance of power pre-1914 and the present

In the early 16th century, on the orders of the Doge, Jews were herded en masse to the foundry district of Venice, which became a model for segregated Jewish quarters throughout Europe

Steeped in the seascape of Margate, Emin is above all a Romantic, for whom dreams are a vivid source of inspiration and art is a kind of salvation

Rather than feeling angry or afraid, or viewing their bodies as a source of pain, women should embrace the benefits of the sexual revolution and ‘grab life by the ovaries’, says Zoe Strimpel

Nothing signalled the personalities of the warring sisters-in-law more clearly than the contrasting fashion sense of Wallis Simpson and Queen Elizabeth

A group of young fiction enthusiasts and intellectuals channel their energies into devouring novels – and marvel at how enlightened it makes them feel

Ray Lawler’s Summer of the Seventeenth Doll is the most celebrated of all Australian plays; and this story of the…

A pilgrimage to Cardiff Central, sorry, Caerdydd Canolog (according to the signage in the station, which also had my return…

Whither the protest song in 2026? In January 1970, John Lennon wrote and recorded ‘Instant Karma!’ in a single day…

Shadowlands, by William Nicholson, is a solid and unsurprising account of the brief marriage between C.S. Lewis (known as Clive),…

EPiC: Elvis Presley In Concert is a concert documentary that grew out of the 65 boxes of unseen Las Vegas…

I lasted all of five minutes with Netflix’s tasting menu-length Being Gordon Ramsay. This surprised me, because I’ve long had…

Some people like art to have a message. So here’s one, delivered by Katsushika Hokusai near the end of Dai…

Van’s genius, without Thought or Lecture, Is hugely turn’d to Architecture. Jonathan Swift’s dismissive jest has never been forgotten. It…

Now that Mr Albanese seems finally to have woken up to the problem of Australian antisemitism, nobody should be surprised…

Speccie reader Reona writes to ask where the expression ‘peppercorn rent’ comes from. Well, there once was a time when…

Competition 3438 was inspired by the 1986 film Clockwise, in which John Cleese is constantly impeded in his attempt to…

Q. I have just got off a nine-hour overnight flight from Miami to Heathrow. I was in premium economy in…

This St David’s Day weekend, I devote this column to a celebration of the world’s most under-appreciated ethnic group. Under-appreciated,…

‘It’s lunchtime and it’s raining. Both things can be true at the same time,’ said my husband, putting on the…

‘Earth has not anything to show more fair.’ I have always believed that the notion of a Dry January must…

‘Do you know who I am?’ said the voice belonging to the lady who used to be my mother, crossly,…

Dante’s Beach, Ravenna I rang up my old best friend, Luke-John, for a chat a few days ago and to…

If the newspaper reports are correct and Margaret Hodge is about to be named as the next chair of Ofcom,…