Greggs is a great British success story
Whenever I’m walking down Cornmarket Street in Oxford – an otherwise unlovely thoroughfare – there is something about the spectacle…
Netflix’s ‘With Love, Meghan’ is Brand Sussex’s final hope
So here it is, the undistinguished thing, at last. I had hopes that, after its postponement because of the Californian…
A refreshingly apolitical Oscars
It is always nice to have a personal connection to the Oscars, however slight and fleeting it might be; hearing…
King Charles offers his support to Zelensky
This weekend marks perhaps the most turbulent 48 hours that Ukraine’s President Zelensky has ever experienced – and, given the…
The rationale behind Trump’s second state visit
When Keir Starmer greeted President Trump on his visit to Washington, he held a piece of paper in his hand…
Is the Amazon version of James Bond doomed?
So at last the deadlock has been broken. After months, even years, of tension between Amazon MGM, who own the…
Does anyone buy Meghan’s sweet tooth?
Strange though this might seem to long-term Spectator readers, I am beginning to warm to Meghan Markle. Not because she…
Donald Trump has taken pity on Prince Harry
Say what you like about President Trump – and people very much do – but there is little doubt that,…
Meghan Markle’s tone-deaf wildfire video is hard to stomach
The recent fires in California have had many tragic effects. Many have lost their homes, possessions and livelihoods, and it…
Kate Middleton must not become the new Diana
In the inimitable words of The Smiths (or, indeed, Carry On Cleo, where they borrowed it from), stop me if…
Don’t get your hopes up for a WH Smith revival
The news that the high street arm of the newsagent WH Smith is in ‘secret talks’ to be sold –…
The self-serving delusions of the ‘Swastika Kaiser’
With the collapse of the Weimar Republic, the eldest son of Kaiser Wilhelm II decided he was best off allying himself with the Nazis, and seeing what he could obtain for his family in the process
Prince Harry has won a Pyrrhic victory over the Sun
So, in the end, Prince Harry folded. His much-ballyhooed case about News Group Newspapers, publishers of the Sun, which was…
What made David Lynch cool
When one of your favourite filmmakers dies, it is hard not to feel a deeply personal sense of loss; the…
The quiet bravery of Kate Middleton
It may only be halfway through January, but the two opposed branches of the younger royal family have both made…
The Sussexes’ tone deaf attack on Meta
Who do the Duke and Duchess of Sussex think they are? Since their quasi-abdication from the royal family five years…
Brace yourselves for Meghan Markle’s comeback
As many of us lurched blearily into 2025, desperately trying to remember how, exactly, we’d managed to cause offence to…
This has been an awful year for the royals
At the beginning of King Charles’s Christmas speech this year, viewers may have been surprised when he did not immediately…
Is Paris the world’s most bookish city?
After I ventured to New York in May 2024, bound for a discerning literary journey round the city’s bookshops, libraries…
Beware the middle of Lidl
If you’re a regular, or even an occasional, customer at Lidl, you’ll know what to expect. Own-brand foodstuffs that shamelessly…
Why the King’s speech still matters
Later today, the King will address the nation, as he has annually since he acceded the throne in September 2022.…
King Charles has a long road to recovery ahead
At the end of what has undoubtedly been a true annus horribilis for the monarchy, King Charles, at least, seems…
The Royals should ban Andrew from Christmas
Sixty years ago, in the aftermath of one of the twentieth century’s most salacious scandals, the former MP John Profumo…
Prince Andrew’s Chinese ‘spy’ blunder is no surprise
It is fair to say that Prince Andrew has always had poor taste in friends. Notoriously, and reputation-shreddingly, he consorted…
Does David Beckham really deserve a knighthood?
Sir David Beckham. Sir Goldenballs. Once upon a time, when Beckham was in his sarong-wearing Nineties heyday, the idea of…
