And there you have it. After decades of dreaming of and planning a full-fronted assault on the key drivers of…

It is with a tone of despair, but some optimism, that I have been cogitating on the result of the…

The nation pays a high price

The technocrats lied to the bush. Now we are paying the price

Intellectuals ignore the fertile ground they spring from

And a jump to the right

Thoughts on the 40th anniversary of our ‘banana republic’

Labour’s election disaster makes clear Britain’s direction of travel

Menzies’ message to Taylor

Tolerating antisemitism to win elections

Ireturned from a recent holiday to Morocco with three mementos: a bright red pair of swimming trunks (teenager-sized; the largest…

It is an old adage of leadership contests that ‘If you shoot for the King, you’d better not miss’ –…

Donald Trump flew to Beijing this week, and when he sits down with China’s President Xi Jinping on Thursday morning…

Some of the highest-paid sportsmen in history, the golfers of the LIV league, had bad news recently. Saudi Arabia said…

When Juliet said of Romeo that ‘a rose by any other name would smell as sweet’, she spoke a common…

Despite a career of nearly half a century in public life, Enoch Powell is generally remembered for one utterance only:…

Red Wales Labour lost power in the Welsh Assembly for the first time since it was set up in 1999.…

Rumour has it that Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, is selling his agreeable little yacht Koru because it will…

Since Victorian times, sandwich-board men proclaiming doom have been part of our urban street life, particularly in London. I’ve felt…

Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, made a speech without a jacket or tie in an attempt to save…

Amid the rubble of this government lies a tattered standard – the regimental colours of the current Labour party. The…

Tales from the City Sir: Simon Jenkins’s article on Liverpool Street Station (‘Horror storeys’, 9 May) is inaccurate, and an…

I have spent the past week marvelling at the behaviour of our commentating class. They seem to have whipped themselves…

The loudest man in politics knows when to keep his silence. Nigel Farage held his tongue on Monday as Keir…

People laugh at Sir Keir Starmer for failing to acknowledge that he has almost no hope of survival. This is…

Hold the front page: I’ve found a very good contemporary novel to occupy my time. Such things have become vanishingly…

The 50th birthday of New York private-equity giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts – founded with $120,000 by the cousins George Roberts…

‘Grab that crab, Clarissa!/ Eat that meat, Jennifer!’ It was with these words – the start of their self-sung theme…

The BBC’s tracking-down of Kardo Ranya as a people-smuggling mastermind is a triumph of investigative journalism. But anyone who thinks…

After the accession of James I, the life of the ‘ultimate Renaissance man’ depended entirely on his discovery of a mythical ‘city of gold’

Summoned home to his dying grandmother in Harris, a gay young man is treated with both violence and tenderness by his father, a Calvinist precentor with a guilty secret

Part of the disinformation strategy of the IRD, a secretive postwar subsection of the Foreign Office, was to counter the blizzard of propaganda issuing from Moscow and Beijing

Harbouring her grief helps keep her adored husband Paul Auster alive, says the bestselling novelist and essayist

Paul Fischer celebrates the ‘era of the new Hollywood blockbuster’, exemplified in the films of Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola

Thomas Laqueur helps us appreciate the historic bond between humans and dogs and the subtle messages conveyed in their portrayal in art

Set in 1980s Derry, O’Reilly’s novel vividly captures the rifts and festering resentments within a close-knit community during the Troubles

Kathryn Paige Harden’s research suggests some genetic connection – but this is not scientific determinism, and ‘real moral choices can’t be understood biologically’

His early directives at the Admiralty and his handling of the Norway campaign exasperated his war cabinet colleagues and might even have ended his political career

There’s something very odd about the fuss that’s been made about David Szalay who won the Booker a few months…

If Olivia Dean is the girl next door, Rosalia is the girl next planet. Their shows in successive weeks at…

Children of the Blitz began with the surprising news – to me anyway – that while 800,000 British children in…

It takes some gumption to name a podcast History’s Greatest Dishes and proceed to offer episodes on pizza, blancmange, balti,…

Please Please Me is a play about Brian Epstein whose brief and troubled life remains relatively unknown. Tom Wright’s linear…

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo were popular regulars at Washington’s Kennedy Center until Trump’s demented blast against decadent queerness.…

Steven Soderbergh’s The Christophers is a deliciously sly, twisty, darkly comedic take on the art world starring Ian McKellen who…

Elsewhere in British music in 1960: William Walton was writing his Symphony No 2, Benjamin Britten his opera on Midsummer…

There’s a photo of Paul Hindemith with the pianist Artur Schnabel on hands and knees, surrounded by model railway track.…

Commercial success has a way of corroding critical regard. The more popular a playwright becomes, the more the critical establishment…

At Chartwell, Sir Winston Churchill’s home of 42 years, now owned by the National Trust, lies his painting studio. Reached…

There are statistics and damn statistics, and the truth may lie somewhere between the two. The Economist recently touted that…

When Donald Trump says he is ready for military action he often says he (or, rather the US military) is…

‘It’s just a hot dog bun with icing!’ the iced-bun detractors will shriek. I’m a lady with a lot of…

You meet an eclectic bunch of people in the horse-racing business. Yet it was at prep school 55 years ago…

As all but the most tribal fruitcases would agree, Arsenal’s Declan Rice is an island of decency in the rather…

Q. I was lunching at a writers’ club in Lexington Street. It is a small but agreeable space. At one…

As the eco-tourism season got under way, the confused-looking French people began to arrive. They come to see ‘la nature’,…

Kyrgyzstan Forget the detailed itinerary – a 12-day trip that included the vertiginous 2,446-metre Kotorma pass on horseback – the…

Erev is an Israeli restaurant in Notting Hill, though Israeli restaurants do not call themselves Israeli nowadays. They have rebranded…

Comp. 3449 invited you to psychoanalyse, in the manner of Freud/Jung etc, a 2026 phenomenon. In a small but accomplished…

At the time of writing, I haven’t seen the King’s Speech, but it’s a safe bet it will include a…