Angus Colwell

Are the ‘lanyard class’ the new enemy?

24 May 2025 9:00 am

Globalisation, liberalism, neoliberalism, managerialism, internationalism, multiculturalism, human resources, wokeness, identity politics, progressivism, EDI, DEI, corporatism, proceduralism, elitism, environmentalism, transnationalism: there…

The creeping Dubai-ification of London

3 May 2025 9:00 am

In December 2023, a TikTok influencer called Maria Vehera opened a packet of ‘Dubai chocolate’ in her car and filmed…

My Marco Pierre White obsession

26 April 2025 9:00 am

Pierre White, Marco. Chef. Michelin stars: five (all handed back). Wives: three (all handed back). Restaurants owned: number unclear. Hours…

Bring back beef dripping!

22 March 2025 9:00 am

For several years, a debate has raged (mainly on Twitter, now X) over whether animal fats are actually better for…

‘The worst echo chamber is your own mind’: the unconventional life of philosopher Agnes Callard

1 February 2025 9:00 am

Agnes Callard is a professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago and she lives with her current husband and…

Do people find Trump as scary anymore?

14 November 2024 4:30 pm

In the Spectator offices, my colleague Mary Wakefield and I often end up talking about young people while we’re making tea. She…

Nick Cave’s right-hand man Warren Ellis on AI, Gorecki and staying young

2 November 2024 9:00 am

In the next few days Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds play Leeds, Glasgow, Manchester and London. There are still…

Pity the restaurant critic

7 September 2024 9:00 am

An atom is made of protons, electrons and neutrons, and protons are made of quarks, and a quark is the…

Police clashes and violence spread across Britain

4 August 2024 8:36 am

It has been a weekend of riots. They began on Friday night in Sunderland, and were repeated in Bristol, Stoke,…

Appreciate Gareth Southgate, for one last time

12 July 2024 7:16 pm

Gareth Southgate probably won’t be in his job in seven days’ time. If England win the final against Spain on Sunday, it will be Sir Gareth, and he’ll…

Israel says it’s ready for another war

6 July 2024 9:00 am

According to my phone, I’m in Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport. Except I’m not. The Israel Defence Forces have scrambled the…

When did Gareth Southgate get quite so ruthless?

7 June 2024 3:30 am

Gareth Southgate, England’s semi-intellectual, waistcoat-strapped manager, knows he’s on his last chance at Euro 2024. He’s failed to bring a trophy home three…

The TikTok stars taking on the Tories

1 June 2024 9:00 am

‘Sorry to be breaking into your usual politics-free feed,’ chirrups Rishi Sunak in his first-ever TikTok video. He is awkward,…

Bugs, biscuits, trench foot: from the front line of the uni protests

11 May 2024 9:00 am

On the grass in front of UCL’s main building, on Sunday night, there were about 30 tents and the portico…

City folk go wild for wild garlic

13 April 2024 9:00 am

For a certain type of Barbour-clad middle-aged man, the best time of year is late summer, and the arrival of…

The lazy corpspeak of the Foreign Office establishment

10 April 2024 1:37 am

Mark Sedwill is a serious man. He has a master’s in economics from Oxford. He worked in Cairo, Nicosia, Baghdad…

In Chicago, forget deep dish. The real pride is the beef

17 March 2024 3:30 pm

Chicago residents bristle when you ask them whether they eat deep-dish pizza. “Yeah,” they sigh, “we might occasionally when someone…

AI won’t be humanity’s ‘co-pilot’

16 January 2024 4:05 am

One of the world’s most powerful men was trapped in a central London basement this morning. Satya Nadella, the CEO…

Britain and US launch airstrikes against Houthis

12 January 2024 10:55 am

The US and the UK have launched airstrikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen whose continued attacks are disrupting trade in…

Is the West at war in the Red Sea?

26 December 2023 4:36 am

Britain and the US are getting ever more drawn in to the conflict in the Red Sea, as Iran-backed Houthis…

‘Rizz’, ‘vibes’, and what we lose with Very Online language

10 December 2023 7:30 pm

Welcome to our language: ‘rizz’. Here’s the OED definition: colloquial noun, ‘defined as ‘style, charm or attractiveness; the ability to…

‘OpenAI is likely to fail now’: writer and scientist Gary Marcus on the sacking of Sam Altman

22 November 2023 5:00 pm

This morning, OpenAI – the firm behind ChatGPT – rehired its chief executive, Sam Altman, after it fired him on…

In defence of Rickshaws

18 November 2023 9:00 am

Inside the Armistice Day protests

12 November 2023 6:00 am

The Metropolitan Police today staged their largest-ever operation with two marches – the pro-Palestinian march and a smaller counter-protest –…