Self-annihilation through sheer stupidity is what qualifies an individual to be honoured at the annual satirical Darwin Awards. Started as…

Better to have Voiced than to have never Voiced at all

Europe’s shameful capitulation to Islamist anti-Semitism

Or a week of thinking up excuses

Albanese got what he deserved

Axis of Woke a disconcerting media winner in the Voice debacle

Crunch time looms for the indebted

Aboriginal assimilation and its malcontents

Anti-Semitism at the ABC

Climbing up donkey tracks

More race-based division to come

When two planes flew into the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001, the world stood in solidarity with the…

Next year, Exeter University will offer an MA in Magic and Occult Science: the first of its kind in a…

Pony rides were once a staple of every village, church and primary-school fête. A brusque, horsey mother would swing you…

During my time in No. 10 as one of Dominic Cummings’s ‘weirdos and misfits’, my team would often speak with…

Side hustles David Solomon, chief executive of Goldman Sachs, said he would stop DJing in clubs, following criticism from the…

For years the government has appeared to be setting itself up for failure with its promises to crack down on…

When the cabinet gathered on Tuesday morning, the meeting started as a sombre affair. Just days before, the Conservatives had…

Things you do not hear very often, number one: a pro-Palestinian protestor denouncing Hamas for the barbarity of its incursion…

  Taipei   I arrive here shortly after Taiwan National Day, which is 10 October. The day might seem strangely…

What has Rishi Sunak’s government achieved in its first year? The highlights include a renegotiated Brexit policy and setting more…

Ever since the atrocities in Israel more than two weeks ago, I have had one main thought. Yes, Israel has…

After crossing the vast steppe, Sasha Dvanov reaches an isolated town where the communist ideal appears to have been achieved. But at what cost?

A compulsion to paint en plein air would remain with the great Impressionist for life, as well as a questing need to find new ways to express what he saw and felt

A chieftain’s daughter flees an arranged marriage with the Roman governor of Britain, enlisting the help of slave and risking both their lives

Just as you can enter a black hole without leaving it, you can exit a white hole without entering it – but first you must understand what black holes really are

Philippa Gregory investigates the lives of English women over 900 years – in sickness, health, business, war, prayer and prostitution

Through a mix of charm, diplomacy and coercion, Sardar Patel, Nehru’s uncompromising deputy, ensured that 565 princely states vanished from the map of India in 1947

Back in London after an absence of 20 years, she’s no longer a literary outsider – but she’s still an acute observer, relishing the foibles of everyone she meets

It was clear for decades in France that unrest was steadily building before public anger finally exploded in the spring of 1789, says Ruth Scurr

John le Carré was one of the more extraordinary popular writers of the last half-century (and more) and part of…

Joseph Haydn, it’s generally agreed, invented the string quartet. And having done so, he re-invented it: again and again. Take…

Tis the season of horror, as it’s Halloween, which we celebrate in this house by turning off all the lights…

If you’re not remotely interested in football or celebrity, I recommend Netflix’s four-part documentary series Beckham. Yes, I know it’s…

In 2012, Jeff Lynne released Mr Blue Sky: The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra. Except it wasn’t. It was…

Architects are often snobby about – and no doubt jealous of – the designer Thomas Heatherwick, who isn’t an actual…

Sir John Lavery has always had a place in Irish affections. His depiction of his wife, Hazel, as the mythical…

A recent Sunday Feature on Radio 3 contained some of the best insults I have ever heard. Contributors to the…

The first play by the pioneering feminist Caryl Churchill has been revived at the Jermyn Street Theatre. Owners, originally staged…

Bryan Appleyard on photographic manipulation, past and present

Elections are always hard fought. But for most New Zealanders to be so desperate to throw out Jacinda Ardern’s original…

The weather bureau tells us that we are now officially in an ‘El Niño event’ and, as a result we…

‘We’re in the living room with a roaring fire, there’s not a sound for miles, it’s wonderful,’ said the builder…

The cohorts of Hamas have invaded my neighbourhood. I was walking my dog, Maxi, in the afterglow of a shower…

The Peninsula is a new hotel at Hyde Park Corner. It is part of the trend for absurd expense: rooms…

In the days when Spitting Image was funny it featured a song called ‘I’ve Never Met A Nice South African’.…

I did not plan to cook a loaf cake when I embarked on concocting a traditional honey cake recipe. The…

You almost certainly haven’t heard of the Trusted News Initiative (TNI), although you probably should have. It’s a BBC-led consortium…