Thomas Tuchel has done the impossible: he’s made me love the Germans
Oh Thomas Tuchel, how I love you! Unlike the last boss of the England team, Saint Gareth of Southgate, there’s…
Disability is becoming the new normal
Longer life expectancy means that most of us will eventually qualify as disabled. But how many of Britain’s present claimants are merely suffering from ‘anxiety’?
Andy Burnham’s reality TV show rise
I knew that the endless hours I’d spent watching reality TV would one day stand me in good stead in…
Here’s to ten years of Brexit Derangement Syndrome
I didn’t fully realise how much Brexit Derangement Syndrome – the reaction to being on the losing side in the…
Kim Kardashian deserves better than Lewis Hamilton
I’ve always been keen on Kim Kardashian, going right back to the earliest years of her family reality show. At…
Mocktails are pathetic
Mocktails. Even the name sounds dodgy. Who is this apparently innocuous canned drink mocking, pray? Probably you, if you’ve shelled…
Why I have high hopes for Wes Streeting
Regarding the possible candidates for the Labour leadership, I’ve travelled so far down the nihilistic road to nowhere that I’m…
Are any fans weirder than Michael Jackson fans?
What does a star need? A great lawyer, a good publicist, a silent plastic surgeon on speed dial – and…
Reform voters will regret turning their back on Kemi Badenoch
Like most people of my age – I’m 66 – I grew up in a time when politics was a…
Don’t whitewash Michael Jackson
We’re not used to famous paedophiles having a great talent; perhaps because all of their drive goes into their secret…
Bash Back are thugs posing as victims
There are times when it seems that violence against women and girls – forever these days being hand-wrung over by…
Why modern ‘comedians’ like Romesh Ranganathan aren’t funny
It’s funny that the George Orwell statue outside the BBC’s Broadcasting House has a quote etched nearby from a proposed…
The shocking entitlement of Huw Edwards
There are few things more savagely amusing than a disgraced member of the BBC becoming indignant. (‘Member’ seems the oddly appropriate…
The bittersweet death of Lycra
There are a lot of things that Ozempic & Co. have killed business for. Weight Watchers. Diets from cabbage soup…
In praise of juicing
‘Enhanced’– it’s such a slinky word. A ‘boob job’ sounds like a gimmick on a stick and a ‘breast augmentation’…
The extraordinary daftness of Olivia Colman
‘Daft’ is such a wonderful word. Not for the first time, I’ve wished I was from Yorkshire, so that I…
The Mandelson scandal is far grubbier than the Profumo affair
The pundits are convinced that Peter Mandelson’s friendship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein is the ‘biggest British political scandal since…
The King’s new film seems extraordinarily vulgar
When I heard that King Charles had a film made about himself – a sometimes ‘elegiac’ film, to quote the…
I’m sick of celebrities pining for Ireland
You know when you’re a kid and your parents finally get on your wick so much that you think, ‘that’s…
London is wild – and no longer in a good way
London is the focus of the world as since no time since the Swinging Sixties. Personally, I find it rather…
A New Year ‘Honour’ is nothing to be proud of
I’ve long loathed the idea of the ‘National Treasure’. Even typing the words made my eyes briefly cross with extreme…
It’s hard to take the Palestine Action hunger strikers seriously
The phrase ‘the silly led by the sinister’ was originally used by the late, singularly great Christopher Hitchens to describe…
The comedy genius of Zarah Sultana
As both of the great Spectator writers Madeline Grant and Gareth Roberts have pointed out here recently, the element of…
The art of owning up
Though Rebecca Culley is obviously a wrong ’un – having stolen £90,000 from her dear old gramps while pretending to…
Robert De Niro has a serious case of Trump envy
The past few weeks has seen the pleasing spectacle of beautiful female film stars (Sydney Sweeney, Keira Knightley – even…
