Jonathan Aitken

The UAE and Oman could be the big winners from the Iran war

28 March 2026 9:00 am

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

10 August 2024 9:00 am

American politics seem particularly febrile in 2024. The sitting President has withdrawn from the election, days after his predecessor was…

Between Heaven and ‘L’

11 July 2015 9:00 am

A.N. Wilson has had a tempestuous journey on the sea of faith. His first port of call was St Stephen’s…

Diary

26 October 2013 9:00 am

The last time I wrote for The Spectator I was sitting in a prison cell. I sent the then editor…