The Spectator

Letters: how to clean up ‘Scuzz Nation’ Britain

17 May 2025 9:00 am

Decline and brawl Sir: Gus Carter’s insightful portrayal of ‘Scuzz Nation’ (‘Streets of shame’, 10 May) is less of a…

The left is finally accepting immigration control

17 May 2025 9:00 am

When it comes to immigration, Keir Starmer has been ‘on a journey’. As a young barrister, he authored a review…

Portrait of the week: Immigration pledges, trade agreements and a new pope

17 May 2025 9:00 am

Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, said, ‘We risk becoming an island of strangers’ as the government published a…

Britain’s decline is a threat to democracy

10 May 2025 9:00 am

Democracy was born in the public square. The Athenian agora was the central meeting place of an engaged citizenry where…

Portrait of the week: Reform party’s victories, Duke of Sussex’s defeat and Deliveroo’s takeover

10 May 2025 9:00 am

Home In a day that upset the apple cart of party politics, Reform won the Runcorn and Helsby by-election by…

Letters: Our private schools are China’s next target

10 May 2025 9:00 am

Ka-shing in Sir: Ian Williams highlights (‘Chasing the dragon’, 3 May) the degree to which the Chinese state has acquired…

Letters: the cruelty of the Supreme Court trans ruling

3 May 2025 9:00 am

Cruel intentions Sir: Rod Liddle (‘Let’s strike a blow for honesty’, 26 April) seems to have fallen into the same…

Portrait of the week: power cuts, local elections and the Pope’s funeral

3 May 2025 9:00 am

Home Sir Tony Blair, the former Labour prime minister, attacked current net-zero policies, saying that ‘any strategy based on either…

The EU is luring Starmer away from Brexit

3 May 2025 9:00 am

Throughout Keir Starmer’s life, a recent fawning profile ran, he has ‘worked to safeguard the value of justice and democracy’,…

2698: au pairs – solution

3 May 2025 9:00 am

The seven unclued pairs are BENSON/HEDGES, COUNTRY/WESTERN, TIME/TIDE, MUSCAT/OMAN, TWEEDLEDUM/TWEEDLEDEE, DUMFRIES/GALLOWAY and BITS/BOBS. First prize Roland Rance, London E17 Runners-up…

Portrait of the week: Pope dies, EU cheese banned and trans women aren’t women

26 April 2025 9:00 am

Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, no longer believes that a trans woman is a woman, his official spokesman…

The law that is choking civil society

26 April 2025 9:00 am

If one were to ask for a quintessential display of the British character it would be hard to better the…

Which pope has served the longest?

26 April 2025 9:00 am

Papal reign The mostly elderly runners and riders to be the next pope are unlikely to challenge the record for…

Letters: Bring back mutton

26 April 2025 9:00 am

Man out of time Sir: That Mary Wakefield left Rowan Williams ‘with my questions for the most part unresolved’ will…

World leaders pay tribute to Pope Francis

21 April 2025 8:34 pm

Pope Francis has died aged 88. At 7.35 a.m., the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had ‘returned to the house…

Portrait of the week: British Steel seized, army sent to Birmingham and slim told to stay home in Beijing

19 April 2025 9:00 am

Home Parliament was recalled from its Easter recess to sit on a Saturday for the first time since the Falklands…

The Easter story reminds us of the importance of truth

19 April 2025 9:00 am

Live not by lies, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn warned the West half a century ago, but we have hardly heeded him since.…

Letters: Donald Trump’s messiah complex

19 April 2025 9:00 am

He’s not the messiah Sir: To Freddy Gray’s meticulous dissection of Trumpian chaos theory (‘Shock tactics’, 12 April) I would…

Letters: The case for ‘raves in the nave’

12 April 2025 9:00 am

Reality check Sir: While I share Mr Gove’s diagnosis of lodestar-less Starmerism (‘Cruel Labour’, 5 April), I cannot share the…