The UAE and Oman could be the big winners from the Iran war
Sixty years ago, I first gazed out on the Strait of Hormuz from the Musandam peninsula of Oman. I was…
My ringside seat at the Nixon resignation melodrama
American politics seem particularly febrile in 2024. The sitting President has withdrawn from the election, days after his predecessor was…
Between Heaven and ‘L’
A.N. Wilson has had a tempestuous journey on the sea of faith. His first port of call was St Stephen’s…
Diary
The last time I wrote for The Spectator I was sitting in a prison cell. I sent the then editor…









