Victorian Liberal Leader Jess Wilson proposes 10 years in jail for vandals who attack Captain Cook statues and war memorials.

Sir Keir Starmer is now approaching a whole week with his head in the sand. One can imagine the plaintive ‘meep, meep’ noise ...

It would be easy to dismiss A Hard Day’s Night, the Beatles film made in 1964, as a throwaway period piece. The plot hurls ...

Rainer Maria Rilke’s claim that fame is the ‘sum of all misunderstandings’ is certainly true of Franz Kafka, whose ...

In 2005 Xandra Bingley published Bertie, May and Mrs Fish, an extraordinarily lively and enjoyable memoir of her childhood ...

In 1951, when J.G. Ballard was 20, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman premiered in London. Directed by Albert Lewin ...

The Turner Prize-winning sculptor Sir Antony Gormley, 75, has installed casts of himself from Crosby beach in Liverpool to ...

For days on end Gange paddles a tiny inflatable through a vast fjord under the midnight sun (‘there was no true dark, but a ...

Blake Morrison is the quintessential man of letters. More exactly, he’s a man of genres – poet, novelist, playwright, ...

As the first Americans of the season got out of their car I scrunched up my face and groaned. ‘They’re all like that, ...

Rearing homing pigeons was always a passion for the Queen,’ said a feature in the Daily Mail about Elizabeth ...

Everyone I have met who has read Belchamber, Howard Sturgis’s novel of 1904, would endorse Edith Wharton’s judgment that ...