Britain has become an irresistible target in recent times for sneering condemnation of its historical period of Empire, even in…

For the first time I can remember, I disagree with Greg Sheridan. He was writing in the Australian the other…

A letter of warning, my boy

The journey from liberal democracy to bureaucratic tyranny - and iatrocide?

The solutions to indigenous disadvantage require new thinking

Wong is unfit to lead our diplomatic service

Labor trashes its own jewel

Media fawning wasn’t enough to save her

Boosters boosting profits

Labor has abandoned the disciplines of history

Liz Truss vs the OBR

The PM’s predecessors are haunting his government

The rise of the nursery spy app

Liz Truss breaks her silence

Lee Anderson on poverty, immigration and the death penalty

The team recovering Ukraine’s dead soldiers

Labour’s pointless war on private schools

In defence of amateur sleuths

This week’s earthquake in Turkey and northern Syria is a reminder that in spite of civilisation’s advance and human ingenuity,…

Home Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, rearranged the deck chairs. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy was broken…

‘There have been so many accomplishments under this administration, it can be difficult to list them in a distilled way.’…

How are you coping during this cost- of-living crisis? Have you made your way to the food bank yet? I…

Fifty years ago I was hitchhiking down the Eastern Seaboard towards Miami overnight. It was midwinter, icy and way, way…

After publishing 17 books, I’m no stranger to the publicity campaign. In my no-name days, my publicist would purr that…

Last week 100,000 civil servants from 124 government departments went on strike. This fact prompts a number of questions, not…

The Cultural Revolution may have been officially forgotten, but it will always haunt Xinran and her generation

Sam Miller challenges the ‘myth of sedentarism’, arguing that mankind is naturally nomadic and that an itinerant life is anyway good for us

Characters ruminate, doors are shut and relationships falter as one person’s thoughts grate on another’s in these subtle, tightly-knit stories

Leaving poetry aside, his memoir covers insanity, debt, drugs, narcissism, religious mania and, more generally, the lengths we go to not to be bored

The Mesta region of Bulgaria, where the river meets the forests of the western Rhodope range, remains remarkably intact and rich in wild harvests

There are many vagaries about measurements, says Claire Cock-Starkey: the length of the foot has often changed, but British shoe sizes hark back to the reign of Edward II

A mixed-race family living in an island paradise off the coast of Maine are made painfully aware that their days are numbered

Shinichi Suzuki certainly believed that learning music is like learning a language, and to be ‘fluent’ in an instrument merely depends on starting early enough

David Graeber imagines the 17th-century buccaneer establishing an enlightened kingdom in the Indian Ocean where all goods were held in common

The third act of Morrison’s family saga focuses on Gill, the once loving and generous sister he was so close to but was unable to save

The other week this column blithely announced that the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra would be performing live that mighty and mightily…

Opera North has begun 2023 with a couple of big revivals, and it’s always rewarding to call in on these…

Civilisation has never nurtured more than a handful of front-rank choreographers within any one generation, with the undesirable result that…

Radio works its strongest magic, I always think, when you listen to it in the dark. The most reliable example…

Why aren’t Metric stars? In their native Canada, several of their albums have gone platinum, but the rest of the…

A romcom with an irritating title, Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons, has opened at the HP Theatre starring Jenna Coleman…

Women Talking, which has received Oscar nominations for best picture and adapted screenplay, is one of those films that, on…

Nick Hornby’s 2014 novel Funny Girl was both a heartfelt defence and a convincing example of what popular entertainment can…

‘Donatello is the real hero of Florentine sculpture’, so Antony Gormley has proclaimed (hugely though he admires Michelangelo). It’s hard…

Matthew Wilson on the female medieval poet who rescued the flower’s reputation

The return of the Mardi Gras Parade to Oxford Street after a two-year absence will be welcomed by the majority…

Lake Superior State University in the US publishes a list of ‘banished words’– terms that have been so misused or…

The nine individual unclued lights form three sets of three, each set related to a theme word in a different…

In Competition No. 3285, you were invited to supply an extract from the libretto of a musical based on the…

Mind your language: Knocked up

There is one advantage to a stay in hospital followed by confinement to barracks: time to read and to think.…

Some readers will recall the furore five years ago about the Presidents Club charity dinner at the Dorchester. The Financial…

I recently heard a tip from an older colleague on managing a department. ‘Everyone is primarily interested in one of…

Driving through the road widening works at junction ten, I noticed a horse being ridden down a muddy passageway that…