Charles Moore

Charles Moore was editor of The Spectator 1984 - 1990. He continues to write a weekly column, The Spectator's Notes. You can read extracts of his column here.

Why Liz Truss’s political journey matters

10 September 2022 9:00 am

As is now well known, Liz Truss has travelled politically. Her parents are left-wing, and there is a photograph of her…

Trimble may prove to be Unionism's last statesman

30 July 2022 9:00 am

David Trimble, who has just died, has rightly been praised for his courage. History may prove him to have been…

‘You can’t have your cake and eat it’: Rishi Sunak talks to Charles Moore

30 July 2022 9:00 am

As the leadership contest hots up, Charles Moore and Rishi Sunak sit down for a chat

Who can read Penny Mordaunt?

23 July 2022 9:00 am

Whitehall is telling ministers that this is a ‘caretaker’ government and so, by convention, cannot take decisions. This is not…

A rather funny story about Ivana Trump

22 July 2022 11:51 pm

The death of Ivana Trump last week reminded me of a story I had always meant to check. I rang…

Thatcher's way with words (1982)

22 July 2022 8:15 pm

This piece is taken from The Spectator’s archive 40 years ago this week. At the time, Charles Moore was the magazine’s…

The triumph of ethnic-minority Tories

16 July 2022 9:00 am

If you had said, even ten years ago, that there was no chance of a white male cabinet minister becoming…

Thatcher and Boris: the problems of downfall

9 July 2022 9:00 am

Few leaders could be as different in character as Margaret Thatcher and Boris Johnson, but one can compare their predicaments…

Thatcher's downfall has a lesson for Boris's enemies

7 July 2022 3:34 am

Few leaders could be as different in character as Margaret Thatcher and Boris Johnson, but one can compare their predicaments…

Who monitors the moralists?

25 June 2022 9:00 am

If anyone was suitable to be the Prime Minister’s adviser on ministerial interests, it was Lord Geidt. Self-effacing, professional, unself-righteous…

Why neither Andrew Neil nor I can be part of the Establishment

18 June 2022 9:00 am

Even before the ECHR injunction, the bishops had issued their anathema. All 25 of them in the House of Lords…

Boris’s cheerers will feel cheated if he goes

11 June 2022 9:00 am

It was reported gleefully that Boris Johnson was booed as he entered St Paul’s Cathedral for the Jubilee Thanksgiving service…

Monarchy is the guarantor of democracy

4 June 2022 9:00 am

Like many people who do not share his views, I have felt intermittent admiration for Peter Tatchell over the past…

The endless tiny errors of the NHS

28 May 2022 9:00 am

I wrote recently elsewhere about Jeremy Hunt’s good new book examining unnecessary deaths in the NHS. Someone should write a…

Why parliament should move to Stoke

21 May 2022 9:00 am

Justified relief that soldiers are now coming out of the Azovstal steelworks alive is accompanied by anxiety about what might…

Prince Charles and a living history lesson

14 May 2022 9:00 am

When I was a lobby journalist, I never went to the State Opening of Parliament. I much regret it, because…

The truth about Roe vs Wade

7 May 2022 9:00 am

As we get back into Roe vs Wade, prompted by the leak of what is said to be the US…

Putin’s argument is blood

23 April 2022 9:00 am

My friend, the novelist Alan Judd, emails with the right quotation for those who argue that Putin should be given…

The case against a European army

16 April 2022 9:00 am

The end of the Cold War was used by the victors to unite Germany. To balance this, Europhiles created a…

Spies shouldn’t be political

9 April 2022 9:00 am

Now that events in Ukraine are restoring a sense of proportion about the difference between aggressive autocracies and free countries,…

What would have happened in the Falklands if Thatcher had been a man?

2 April 2022 9:00 am

Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands 40 years ago. I had joined the Daily Telegraph as a reporter in 1979 and…

The West needs to spread doubt and fear

26 March 2022 9:00 am

Zakhar Prilepin is a well-known novelist in Russia and an ultra-nationalist warrior in Donbas. Once a member of the National…

Is Putin really losing?

19 March 2022 9:00 am

I remember my father telling me about Imre Nagy’s final broadcast before the Hungarian leader was taken by the Russians…

Putin is bad, not mad

12 March 2022 9:00 am

I wish people would not say Vladimir Putin is mad. One understands him much better if one says he is…

The true meaning of 'emergency'

5 March 2022 9:00 am

Much attention has been paid to how Vladimir Putin has learnt from western weakness over his earlier invasions, including into…