Various vehicular metaphors are commonly used to describe the unravelling of an incompetent government, usually involving train wrecks, car crashes,…

Two Bs or not two Bs for the seat of Higgins?

A satirical look at the previous government’s conservative leanings

Everyone behaving badly, but only one is pronounced guilty in a social justice outcome

Economic policies compared

Activists are weaponising indigenous myth-making

Lawfare conspirators ordered to come clean

Antipathy to Israel is just the starting point

Our universities have abandoned Western civilisation

Will the US central bank skew the US election?

Policy determined on the steps of the Lakemba mosque

A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Winston Churchill’s description of Soviet Russia in 1939 could also apply…

Ever since Rishi Sunak became leader of the Conservative party, he has been preparing for this week. Entering 10 Downing…

You know that feeling when you haven’t seen someone for several years and when you do, you really notice the…

It’s official. I live in the unhappiest place in Britain. Who says so? My neighbours here in Hillingdon, that’s who.…

In Europe at the end of the Noughties, the problem drug was krokodil. The semi-synthetic, necrosis-causing alternative to heroin was…

The worst thing that happened to me over the pandemic was I got ‘really into beer’. I was already into…

When Joseph Stiglitz talks, the left listens. The Nobel laureate has advised multiple Democratic presidents and the World Bank, where…

One Saturday last July, a couple of hundred people gathered in a conference centre on the bank of the Thames…

The state of our defence Sir: Your article on the etiolated state of European, including Britain’s, defence, is spot on (‘The…

Home Humza Yousaf resigned as the First Minister of Scotland and leader of the Scottish National party, posts he had…

For 50 years, I’ve avoided wearing anything resembling formal tennis kit but in a rather lame way, I’ve been seduced…

Horse trials Five Household Cavalry horses bolted in central London, with two reaching Limehouse before being calmed down. It may…

A recent analysis has concluded that ‘British public opinion has got so used to things being bad/chaotic it’s hard to imagine…

Pulling off the rhetorical trick that Brexit would undermine the Northern Ireland Good Friday Agreement, Michel Barnier, the EU negotiator,…

Iwas trying to work out which event gave me a greater sense of euphoria and contentment – the fall of…

How radically left-wing is Labour’s proposed ‘renationalisation’ of the railways? Though militant Mick Lynch of the RMT union ‘strongly welcomed…

I’ve been reading a book by the American journalist Abigail Shrier – Bad Therapy – which describes just how demented…

When Tom Lee suffers a breakdown after the birth of his first child, a doctor warns him against the only drug that proves effective, further adding to his distress

In a society obsessed with the trappings of grief, funerals were often elaborate occasions, with commemorative medals struck and strict rules applied to the period of mourning

Two Italian editors, determined to rescue the philosopher from Nazi associations, find their concern with philological truth derided by French postmodernists

Conflicting ideals of old-school socialism and modern identity politics are fought out against a background of urban desolation worthy of Dickens

Every other book now seems to be a collection of sad, wry, funny reflections by some sad, wry, funny columnist – and Joel Golby’s Four Stars is among the best

If plague, war or natural disasters don’t destroy our own, then ‘a cascading systems failure’ seems likely, on past evidence, says Paul Cooper

Eminent astronomers have explained cosmic anomalies as alien megastructures and spaceships, while the source of the celebrated Wow! signal remains anyone’s guess

In The Love Letters Between a Nobleman and his Sister, often called the ‘first English novel’, Behn successfully milked the affair for all it was worth

It’s sad to see that Sir Andrew Davis, the former head of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, has died. The man…

Agathe by Angela J. Davis follows the early phases of the Rwanda genocide 30 years ago. The subject, Agathe Uwilingiyimana,…

The American artist and critic Brad Troemel once pointed out that art galleries have all turned into a kind of…

You could very well sum up their differing approaches to American roots music from how they were dressed. Both wore…

On Saturday 12 December 1964, Harold Wilson addressed his first Labour party conference as prime minister, George Harrison was photographed…

In 2010, when his thrillingly edgy and angry Political Mother delivered modern dance a winding punch right where it hurt,…

From a nation that gave us riot police, rude waiters, baguettes and non-negotiable submarine contracts we have a new word,…

The expression ‘non-racist’ is still missing from most of the world’s major dictionaries (Oxford, Merriam-Webster, Collins, Macquarie) but perhaps this…

This week the Welsh parliament has been debating a law that would ban politicians from lying. Assuming it ends up…

Q. My husband and I (both in our eighties) recently visited a carpet shop with a view to replacing the…

Poor Gareth Southgate. Having three outstanding finishers is giving him a thumping headache ahead of the European Championship. Harry Kane,…

‘He did it years before William Donaldson did The Henry Root Letters,’ said my husband querulously, as though I had…

It’s been 30 years this month since I last touched alcohol and I still can’t face the prospect of a…

Poor old parsley sauce. As someone who writes regularly about old-fashioned food, it often feels that we are living through…

You don’t often walk into a racing yard and find the trainer engrossed with two owners –apropos of horse names…

Pushing through a crowded hospital corridor behind my father, I heard a voice calling me. Then a nurse grabbed me…