And so here we are at a pivotal moment in Australian history. Australians must now make a decisive choice between…

Can the Victorian Liberals now focus on defeating Labor?

Why were the words ‘non-binding’ not included in the Voice proposal?

Jimbo begins to sink

Government hasn’t got a clue about the economics of renting

The positive message in the No vote

Soon you won’t even be able to talk about the weather

Not effective, not safe

Learn from the re-booted Conservatives in Canada

China retaliates

Vote for a new direction

Prepare for a presidential campaign

The countryside where I grew up has been destroyed by HS2

I’ll miss my favourite phone

It’s not only men who are obsessed with the Romans

Hell is a heat pump

The new age of gullibility

What really motivates the ‘new progressives’

The left-wing bias of the House of Lords bishops

The history of education reform is a graveyard of acronyms: TVEIs, GNVQs and so on. There have been many well-meaning…

Two months ago, in these pages, I predicted that Robert Fico’s Smer-SD party would win the Slovakian elections and everybody…

I was only a boy when I first began protesting against the idiocy of so much of the folk wisdom…

I’m torn between headlining this column ‘Why I’m moving to Portugal’ and ‘Why I’m leaving the UK’. Exhausted, shadowed by…

What follows may suggest that I require an ‘intervention’. Readers might even interpret this column as a cry for help.…

The world that blossoms in this haunting novel about the importance of memory is in the aesthetic vein known as ‘mono no aware’, or ‘the pathos of things’

The Rochdale lass who sang her way from music hall to the silver screen encouraged a spirit of resilience and community in the interwar years, says Simon Heffer

Ingrid Swenson spent ten years retrieving discarded shopping lists at a London Waitrose, and the result is a rare glimpse into entire, private worlds

Being the genetic copy of another human not only presents problems of individuality but offers a ‘rare form of experimental control’, says William Viney

Dissatisfied with his unfinished epic, the dying Vergil called for his scrolls to be burned, but was fortunately overruled by the Emperor Augustus

Singing sands, the dawn chorus and the crackle of the Northern Lights are among the many natural wonders explored in Caspar Henderson’s paean to the act of listening

Lawyers, teachers, architects and engineers all enjoy sex behind the scenes at a Houston gay bar in a novel focusing on relationships among black urban men

Contemplating ‘hedgehog philosophy’ with Sarah Sands, Rowan Williams, Greta Thunberg and other luminaries would test anyone’s patience after 150 pages

We seem just as captivated by magic today as our Sumerian ancestors ever were, says Suzi Feay

It’s been a long time coming, Patricia Cornelius’ My Sister Jill but she’s a playwright whose work demands to be…

Born in Tsarist Kyiv in 1898, Golda Meir grew up with what she called a ‘pogrom complex’. That perhaps explained…

If there were special awards for Most Subtlety in a Television Drama, Tuesday’s Partygate would be unlikely to win one.…

It sounds like a barking-mad student sketch but the final product is marinated in wisdom and maturity. It’s Headed Straight…

Over the past few years, the National have become the most important band in modern rock music. The strange thing…

While looking at Claudette Johnson’s splendid exhibition Presence at the Courtauld Gallery, I kept trying to pin down an elusive…

Opera North has launched a ‘Green Season’, which means (among other things) that the sets and costumes for its new…

‘Do women have to be naked to get into the Met Museum?’ More than 30 years after the Guerrilla Girls…

Calvin Po on the revival of building in the solid, sustainable, dependable material that lies readily beneath our feet

The death of actor David McCallum last week prompted me to google the theme music for The Man from U.N.C.L.E.,…

A reader has asked me about the common expression ‘virtue-signalling’. The meaning, I think, is fairly clear. It is a…

The unclued lights are PUB NAMES which include the pair 38/31 First prize  Mary Newbery, Devizes, Wiltshire Runners-up  David Burnside,…

The unclued lights (one of two words) and four others clued without their thematic definition are of a kind. Across…

I feel old, and feelings are not always wrong, This eheu fugaces mood came on me at the Conservative party…

In Competition No. 3319 you were invited to supply a description of the house of a well-known figure from the…

Back in the 1970s, a less politically correct age, there was a standby formula for television advertising known as 2Cs…

I first realised something was wrong with my hand last Thursday evening. I’d been invited by a friend to go…