The Spectator

Common sense prevails in the gender debate

13 April 2024 9:00 am

The publication this week of the Cass Review into gender-identity services for young people marks a welcome return to reason…

Portrait of the Week: Tory phishing, tension over Rafah and Cameron in America

13 April 2024 9:00 am

Home The review by Dr Hilary Cass of gender-identity services for people under 18 called for an end to prescribing…

Letters: screens in schools are not a problem

6 April 2024 9:00 am

Screen tests Sir: As somebody whose teaching career coincided with the digital revolution, I must take issue with Sophie Winkleman’s…

Portrait of the Week: hate crimes, surprise knighthoods and flaming rickshaws

6 April 2024 9:00 am

Home The Hate Crime and Public Order Act came into effect in Scotland, making it a crime to communicate or…

Britain’s role in ending the slave trade ought to be celebrated

6 April 2024 9:00 am

It was bound to happen sooner or later: a guest on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow presented an artefact which derived…

How many people sleep rough?

6 April 2024 9:00 am

Ballot points Michael Gove hinted that the general election could be on 14 or 21 November.     Have we had a…

What the royals must learn from Kate’s photo blunder

13 March 2024 9:39 pm

As an object lesson in how to feed conspiracy theorists while trying to see them off, the Princess of Wales’s…