At the dawn of my stellar journalistic career I served for two years as Crown Court correspondent of the Cambridge…

It is a well known axiom of politics that once you compare your opponents to Hitler’s Nazis you have well…

Everyone knows the rhyme about Adolf Hitler. The popular ribald wartime song, beloved of school children, has it that: ‘Hitler…

James Watson has died at the great age of 97. Obituaries of the American scientist, who, with his late British…

It was an ethnic massacre so bad that it could be seen from space. Satellites picked up bloodied patches of…

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor will no doubt be feeling sorry for himself this morning. Stripped of his royal title and booted…

That strange sound coming from their primeval swamp is the noise of two Tory dinosaurs trumpeting their disdain and disapproval…

President Trump’s undeclared war on Latin America’s drug smugglers escalated dramatically on Tuesday when U.S. air strikes destroyed four more…

Javier Milei, Argentina’s self styled “anarcho-capitalist” President, defied pessimistic poll predictions on Sunday to win in the midterm elections and save…

The message could not be clearer: Israeli football fans are not welcome in Birmingham. I am no lover of football,…

Japan is still in many ways a traditionalist – not to say a sexist – society. But the times they…

Brazil’s former right-wing president Jair Bolsanaro has been sentenced to 27 years in jail after being found guilty by the…

A landslide election defeat for Argentine President Javier Milei’s Libertad Avanza party has made money markets doubt whether he will…

London’s entire underground tube system – apart from the Elizabeth Line – is being paralysed for almost a week by a…

Back in July I wrote in these pages that if too many Tories joined Reform, Nigel Farage’s party would risk…

The trial of Brazil’s former right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro on charges of plotting a coup to topple the current President…

President Trump has authorized what he called a “kinetic strike” from a US warship that destroyed a boat allegedly carrying…

ranging from the fate of 130,000 people who have “disappeared” in the country’s drug wars, to discontent over the “gentrification”…

The authoritarian left wing regime of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has mobilized his ruling Socialist party’s paramilitary militia in response…

Today is the 110th anniversary of the birth of a former Spectator correspondent who took part in and survived more…

Bolivia is to be treated to a nail-biting run-off this autumn between two conservatives in the race to be the…

Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, has posed a fascinating counter-factual question about our Prime Minister: what if Keir…

One of the strangest German lives in the post-second world war era closed on 27 July 2025 with the death…

Reform UK topping the opinion polls and winning local council elections has prompted several leading Tories to defect. But now…