Last Saturday afternoon Sydneysiders in particular and Australians as a whole were horrified and traumatised as a lone man prowled…

Like many conservatives, I am profoundly unhappy about the appointment of Ms Sam Mostyn as Governor-General of Australia. In fact,…

But not according to ‘equity and diversity’

Free speech must be protected

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Iran’s Kabuki Attack of the Drones misfires

Transgender conversions

The evil mantra ‘From the river to the sea’

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As Jordanian fighter jets shot down Iranian drones heading for Israel on Saturday night, there were joyful cries of Allahu…

When Israel and its allies shot down hundreds of Iranian drones and missiles, they demonstrated what an effective air defence…

Next month, Keir Starmer is expected to lead his party to victory in the local elections. The Tories are forecast…

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At the start of January, Donald Trump offered up a cheery new year message for Americans. ‘If I don’t get…

I miss kippers. My wife won’t let me eat them at home, and they have become a rarity in restaurants.…

Frescoes are always the lead story in reports of the latest finds from Pompeii, but they are only a part…

As a child I was fascinated by the exotic names of certain cities: Havana, Rio de Janeiro and Los Angeles…

Home Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, said that British fighter jets had shot down ‘a number of drones’ fired at…

Why is Britain poised to ban cigarette smoking, when the habit is already dying out anyway? Smoking is seen by…

Question time Sir: Your leading article ‘Sense prevails’ (13 April) is a valuable précis of the Cass Review into NHS…

There are two questions that need to be asked of any society: what is it that is going wrong; and…

Iwas once asked by a colleague to sponsor him on an undertaking designed, he said, to raise money for a…

I do not know Chris Packham, the BBC nature broadcaster, personally, but he wrote me a letter last month, enclosing…

The Democrats dare to hope that this week will be a study in contrasts. On their side stands President Joe…

The Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, is a loyal and well-intentioned public servant in a role that,…

Though premonitions are not things he believes in, Rushdie notes the many spooky coincidences surrounding the attack – which he describes in gripping, terrifying detail

Motherhood prompts Segtnan to research the cold case of Birgitta Sivander, a nine-year-old found murdered in a Swedish forest in 1948

A new anthropological type is emerging, says Pascal Bruckner – the shrivelled, hyperconnected being who no longer needs others or the outside world

The photographer never attempted to show anyone in a good light, making his portraits of Francis Bacon and other Soho habitués look like dress rehearsals for morgue shots

After undergoing prolonged cosmetic dentistry, 50-year-old John Patrick Higgins reluctantly acknowledges that he’ll never be the stylish man about town of his dreams

Inspired by the likes of Éric Zemmour, the extreme right is not only reviving reactionary ideas but even questioning the innocence of Captain Dreyfus himself

Vera Holme and Evelina Haverfield, lovers and fellow suffragettes, risked their lives as nursing staff in the first world war and exposed the absurdity of Edwardian homophobia

Having learnt the trade as a child in London, the polymath established a thriving printing business in Philadelphia, bringing humour and enlightenment to the American millions

Relishing the outrageous and improbable, Bradshaw treats us to stories that often rely more on twist than plot

It was a tweet by the novelist Joyce Carol Oates that warned us PBS, the American public broadcaster, had done…

Grade: B+ Most video games challenge the player’s problem-solving skills, reaction time or hand-eye co-ordination. But a handful of them…

Play-goers, beware. Director Robert Icke is back in town, and that means a turgid four-hour revival of a heavyweight classic…

The term drawing is a broad umbrella, so in an exhibition of 120 works it helps to outline some distinctions.…

In 1937, John Barbirolli took six pieces by Henry Purcell and arranged them for an orchestra of strings, horns and…

Sometimes I Think About Dying is one of those titles you want to shout back at – what? Only sometimes?…

Who do you think said the following on TV this week: ‘I love being around gay men – seeing a…

How is it that a group that sounds like the Hives are selling out the Apollo? In a world configured…

Tanner, the critic RICHARD BRATBY Michael Tanner (1935-2024), who died earlier this month, had such a vital mind and stood…

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The University of Chicago has what it calls a ‘Parrhesia Program for Public Discourse’ – aimed at teaching students to…

Linzer torte has quite the claim to fame: some assert that it’s the oldest cake in the world; others that…

Arlington is named for the 1st Earl of Arlington and his street behind the Ritz Hotel. It used to be…

‘Like being chained to a lunatic.’ That’s how a man feels in relation to his libido. And the lunatic latches…

Well it was fun while it lasted, the closest three-way race for the Premier League in history, a title challenge…

The artists and hippies are re-wilding their land, which is to say doing nothing at all to it and watching…

My husband thought it brave and manly of the BBC’s Amol Rajan to resolve publicly to change his pronunciation of…

You’d assume the reaction to the SNP’s new hate crime laws would make other authoritarian governments hesitate before introducing similar…

However hard some people try to make it a business, jump racing remains a sport and the Grand National its…

Q. For the past couple of years, many of my sons’ friends have been gamely running the London Marathon for…