My favourite books to give at Christmas

As Christmas approaches and we wrack our brains to find something that suits everyone, there is no present quite like a book. Whether it’s an...

yesterday 10

Her Majesty The Queen

What happened to the Oxford interview?

This week, there’s a strange absence in Oxford. For years, in December, you’d suddenly see a strange invasion of the streets of the university...

yesterday 9

Harry Mount

Taking potshots / Why does Trump care about Europe's 'civilisational erasure'?

In Ukraine, as elsewhere in Europe, Donald Trump’s new national security strategy is being met with a mixture of incredulity and incomprehension. ‘...

yesterday 8

Jacob Heilbrunn

South Africa / The story of the Battle of Blood River

Johannesburg, the wealthiest city in Africa and home to more than 12,000 millionaires is about to become a ghost town. Just over a week before...

yesterday 8

Geoff Hill

How Russia’s National Guard may stymie the latest Ukraine plan

One of the crucial obstacles to a Ukraine peace deal appears to be Vladimir Putin’s demand for the remaining fifth of Donetsk region not in Russian...

yesterday 8

Mark Galeotti

Pablo Escobar's hippos are saving Colombia's wetlands

In Colombia’s enormous Magdalena River basin, an ecological anomaly has triggered an extraordinary debate among ecologists. Ought some invasive...

yesterday 9

Ben Goldsmith

The agony of the village Christmas drinks party

Sometime in mid-October, my husband and I begin our annual deliberation: should we host a village Christmas drinks party? The conversation...

yesterday 7

Arabella Byrne

The care system isn’t built for Afghan teenagers

The sentencing this week of Jan Jahanzeb and Israr Niazal for the rape of a 15-year-old girl in Leamington Spa has reignited the immigration...

yesterday 8

Rosie Lewis

The strange world of ‘2D exclusive’ Japanese women

For those trying to understand Japan’s plummeting birthrate – which some fear could eventually lead to Japanese people ceasing to exist –...

yesterday 7

Philip Patrick

Primal Scream's Nazi Star of David stunt is unforgivable

It’s hard, in 2025, to call out anti-Semitism. You’ll find yourself besieged by digital armies of apologists for bigotry. ‘It’s just criticism of...

yesterday 40

Brendan O’Neill

Dayton Agreement / The long, awful shadow of the siege of Sarajevo

They call them the roses of Sarajevo: scars ripping through the concrete and painted red, marking where an artillery round claimed a life during...

yesterday 20

Niko Vorobyov

The horror of the Bondi beach shooting

The attack at Bondi beach during a Hanukkah celebration, killing nine, has sent a fresh wave of horror through the Jewish diaspora. What might once...

yesterday 10

Jonathan Sacerdoti

The Bondi beach shooting was a pogrom

This is not a time to mince words. Moral clarity is our sole duty on this dark day. What happened in Bondi in Sydney was an act of fascist...

yesterday 20

Brendan O’Neill

Sunday shows round-up: terror in Australia

As Trevor Phillips began his Sky News show this morning, news broke of a mass shooting at Bondi beach in Sydney, where over a thousand people had...

yesterday 5

Joe Bedell-Brill

Australia must be purged of its festering anti-Semitism

It breaks my heart to write this piece. Today, the resurgence of anti-Semitism that has percolated and festered in Australia for the last two years...

yesterday 4

Terry Barnes

Why did Robin Ince have to leave The Infinite Monkey Cage?

It was with mild pleasure that I read of the decision of Robin Ince to end his association with the Radio 4 programme, The Infinite Monkey Cage. I...

yesterday 3

Rod Liddle

A woman of substance | 18 January 2018

Steven Spielberg’s The Post, which dramatizes the Washington Post’s publication of the Pentagon Papers in 1971, doesn’t exactly push at the...

yesterday 4

Deborah Ross

All the rage | 11 January 2018

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri does, indeed, feature three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri. They have been placed at the roadside on...

yesterday 4

Deborah Ross

Father of the nation

Franklin D. Roosevelt isn’t as popular as he once was. When Barack Obama won the 2008 election, he let it be known that he was reading a book about...

yesterday 1

Tim Stanley

Inside the intellectual dark web

In January, Channel 4’s Cathy Newman interviewed the Canadian academic Jordan Peterson. The channel broadcast a short version of the interview on...

yesterday 0

Douglas Murray

Stiller instinct

Brad’s Status is a midlife crisis film starring Ben Stiller as a nearly 50-year-old man whose status anxiety is through the roof, poor thing. My...

yesterday 1

Deborah Ross

Bad feminist

Molly’s Game marks the directorial debut of Hollywood’s most celebrated screenwriter, Aaron Sorkin, and is based on his adaptation of the memoir by...

yesterday 1

Deborah Ross

Donald Trump and the art of the conspiracy theory

ABC television star Roseanne Barr is in full retreat. Today, she tweeted, “I apologize to Valerie Jarrett and to all Americans. I am truly sorry...

yesterday 0

Jacob Heilbrunn

A tough act to follow

Gary Oldman has joined a long list of actors who have portrayed Winston Churchill — no fewer than 35 of them in movies and 28 on television. He is...

yesterday 1

Andrew Roberts

Disney is considerably more repulsive than Roseanne

Oh my God! Someone said something you don’t like! Cancel his (or her) show! Pronounce anathema upon him (or her). Topple the statues, chisel...

yesterday 0

Roger Kimball

Sympathy for the devil: Doesn’t Harvey Weinstein deserve pity, too?

As I watched Harvey Weinstein hand himself into the police last week, the scalp the #MeToo movement most desperately craved, it was hard not to feel...

yesterday 0

David Boyle

Ben Shapiro, the child prodigy gone right

Liberty University, Jerry Falwell’s Evangelical Christian finishing school, gathers three times a week for “convocation”, a worship service with...

yesterday 0

Matt Mcdonald

Roseanne isn’t abhorrent — she’s just mad

‘I’m bipolar and have ADHD and multiple personality disorder,’ Roseanne Barr once said. ‘But they’re now all in remission due to the...

yesterday 0

Dominic Green

First Reformed is Taxi Driver for the age of Trump

‘That was some weird shit,’ George W. Bush is said to have muttered after Donald Trump’s desolate inauguration speech of January 2017. ‘I couldn’t...

yesterday 0

Dominic Green

Fast or feast

‘Tell me what you eat and I shall tell you what you are.’ The best known adage in food literature, penned by the French politician and gastronome...

yesterday 1

Rose Prince

None of my Harvard students thinks Brexit is a good idea

Across the street at the Museum of Fine Arts, there is an extraordinary collection of Georgian furniture and paintings from Boston just before the...

yesterday 0

Radek Sikorski

USC should fire its president – and every bureaucrat who could have stopped George Tyndall’s campaign of abuse

Possess the wrong firearm after dark just one block west of Vermont Avenue, and the Los Angeles Police Department will have you pinned to the...

yesterday 0

Tiana Lowe

How I became Peter Fallow

It was Clay Felker, the editor of New York magazine, who introduced me to Tom Wolfe. This was at the beginning of the Seventies, the magazine that...

yesterday 0

Anthony Haden-Guest

What does Ronan Farrow want next?

Ronan Farrow is currently the most wonderful wunderkind in the United States, at least on the Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor. Former news chat show...

yesterday 0

Chase Madar

Decline and fall / What happened to the Oxford interview?

This week, there’s a strange absence in Oxford. For years, in December, you’d suddenly see a strange invasion of the streets of the university...

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Harry Mount

How candid is King Charles being about his cancer treatment?

The news that King Charles’s cancer treatment will be moving into a new phase as of next year is undeniably welcome, both for him on a personal...

previous day 10

Alexander Larman

How terror triumphed at the Christmas market

Mulled wine and Heckler & Koch assault rifles don’t belong together, except in Christmas films like Die Hard. Festive visitors to Christmas markets...

previous day 8

Druin Burch

In a crowded field, who is the most insufferable MP?

The Palace of Westminster, already beset by crumbling finials, has developed a damp problem. Nothing to do with bricks and mortar. We are talking...

previous day 10

Quentin Letts

Why does Trump care about Europe's 'civilisational erasure'?

In Ukraine, as elsewhere in Europe, Donald Trump’s new national security strategy is being met with a mixture of incredulity and incomprehension. ‘...

previous day 2

Jacob Heilbrunn

Football is a masterclass in monogamy

Back in the early 1990s, I was a teenage visitor to an array of dilapidated Victorian cow sheds masquerading as third and fourth division football...

previous day 7

Rob Crossan

Can Britain afford Aukus?

‘Full steam ahead’: That was the verdict on the Aukus alliance from Defence Secretary John Healey after the United States concluded its review of...

previous day 10

Eliot Wilson

Peace negotiations / The war in Ukraine is reaching its endgame

Painfully and chaotically, the outline of the peace deal that will eventually end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is emerging as the US leans on Kyiv...

previous day 8

Owen Matthews

Gen Z can't cope with the real world

Everyone recognises that teenagers today are unduly anxious. Many people attribute this to a rise in smartphone use. Some even blame an education...

previous day 9

Patrick West

Music / Primal Scream's Nazi Star of David stunt is unforgivable

It’s hard, in 2025, to call out anti-Semitism. You’ll find yourself besieged by digital armies of apologists for bigotry. ‘It’s just criticism of...

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Brendan O’Neill

Were the Romans good for Britain?

Since the Romans themselves wrote about the subject, we have a clear idea of the good things they did for Britain. Roads, towns, stone and brick...

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Mike Pitts

Three bets at Cheltenham and Doncaster tomorrow

Strong course form is always a major plus for horses contesting races at Cheltenham, whether it is at the Festival in March or any other meeting at...

friday 2

Penworthy

Stopping the boats will be harder than Jordan Bardella thinks

France’s Jordan Bardella has promised to stop the boats. Now where have we heard that before? The president of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally made...

friday 20

Gavin Mortimer

How Rachel Reeves shrank the economy

The British economy is shrinking. Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that GDP fell by 0.1 per cent in the three...

friday 4

Michael Simmons

What an Odyssey / The pleasure of not knowing

A few years ago the podcaster Lex Fridman published a list of books that he was hoping to read in the year ahead. It included works by George...

friday 9

Douglas Murray

The war in Ukraine is reaching its endgame

Painfully and chaotically, the outline of the peace deal that will eventually end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is emerging as the US leans on Kyiv...

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My favourite books to give at Christmas

Her Majesty The Queen

What happened to the Oxford interview?

Harry Mount

Taking potshots / Why does Trump care about Europe's 'civilisational erasure'?

Jacob Heilbrunn

South Africa / The story of the Battle of Blood River

Geoff Hill

How Russia’s National Guard may stymie the latest Ukraine plan

Mark Galeotti

Pablo Escobar's hippos are saving Colombia's wetlands

Ben Goldsmith

The agony of the village Christmas drinks party

Arabella Byrne

The care system isn’t built for Afghan teenagers

Rosie Lewis

The strange world of ‘2D exclusive’ Japanese women

Philip Patrick

Primal Scream's Nazi Star of David stunt is unforgivable

Brendan O’Neill

Dayton Agreement / The long, awful shadow of the siege of Sarajevo

Niko Vorobyov

The horror of the Bondi beach shooting

Jonathan Sacerdoti

The Bondi beach shooting was a pogrom

Brendan O’Neill

Sunday shows round-up: terror in Australia

Joe Bedell-Brill

Australia must be purged of its festering anti-Semitism

Terry Barnes

Why did Robin Ince have to leave The Infinite Monkey Cage?

Rod Liddle

A woman of substance | 18 January 2018

Deborah Ross

All the rage | 11 January 2018

Deborah Ross

Father of the nation

Tim Stanley

Inside the intellectual dark web

Douglas Murray

Stiller instinct

Deborah Ross

Bad feminist

Deborah Ross

Donald Trump and the art of the conspiracy theory

Jacob Heilbrunn

A tough act to follow

Andrew Roberts

Disney is considerably more repulsive than Roseanne

Roger Kimball

Sympathy for the devil: Doesn’t Harvey Weinstein deserve pity, too?

David Boyle

Ben Shapiro, the child prodigy gone right

Matt Mcdonald

Roseanne isn’t abhorrent — she’s just mad

Dominic Green

First Reformed is Taxi Driver for the age of Trump

Dominic Green

Fast or feast

Rose Prince

None of my Harvard students thinks Brexit is a good idea

Radek Sikorski

USC should fire its president – and every bureaucrat who could have stopped George Tyndall’s campaign of abuse

Tiana Lowe

How I became Peter Fallow

Anthony Haden-Guest

What does Ronan Farrow want next?

Chase Madar

Decline and fall / What happened to the Oxford interview?

Harry Mount

How candid is King Charles being about his cancer treatment?

Alexander Larman

How terror triumphed at the Christmas market

Druin Burch

In a crowded field, who is the most insufferable MP?

Quentin Letts

Why does Trump care about Europe's 'civilisational erasure'?