Ask any Australian what they think defines the ‘Australian Dream’, and they’ll tell you that it is a house and a backyard ...

We all say we care about hunger – especially when children suffer. And we should. But beyond the headlines about Gaza, here’s ...

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When I was a young man, the claim that Britain was in danger of becoming the 51st state was a political slur mainly thrown ...

President Trump has a very small willy. His boyfriend is Satan. He’s a con man who will sue you for billions on the flimsiest ...

The Victorian Parliament is in a self-congratulatory state. They have banned machetes. Hurrah! That’s the end of youth crime.

The English cannot assimilate any nation,’ declared the narrator of a French travelogue set in India and published in the ...

Fucking men,’ spits a woman towards the end of John Niven’s brilliant tenth novel, The Fathers. ‘Why do they always think it’s about fixing everything?’ It’s a classic hit of deadpan humour from ...

Last month, the government announced that 16-year-olds would be able to vote at the next general election. If these new voters had wanted to inform themselves about political issues over the ...

Over the last few weeks, Pope Leo XIV resumed the tradition of popes spending some part of the summer at the papal residence ...

Ferdinand Mount has had an illustrious career, including posts as head of the No. 10 policy unit under Margaret Thatcher, literary and political editor of The Spectator and editor of the TLS.