The Spectator’s Notes

The Spectator's Notes

25 March 2023 9:00 am

The Spectator's Notes

18 March 2023 9:00 am

The Spectator's Notes

11 March 2023 9:00 am

The Spectator's notes

25 February 2023 9:00 am

The Spectator's Notes

18 February 2023 9:00 am

The Spectator's Notes

11 February 2023 9:00 am

The Spectator's Notes

4 February 2023 9:00 am

The Spectator's Notes

28 January 2023 9:00 am

The Spectator's notes

18 January 2023 10:00 pm

Harry shouldn’t be invited to the coronation

14 January 2023 9:00 am

The Duke of Sussex says that he and his wife can never return to live in the United Kingdom. They…

The error of involving Gordon Brown

10 December 2022 9:00 am

Sir Keir Starmer says the House of Lords is ‘indefensible’. It is an odd thing to say about an institution…

It is harder to run a dictatorship than a democracy

3 December 2022 9:00 am

Things are currently so bad in the western democracies that we tend to ignore how much worse they are in…

MPs won’t ditch the House of Lords

26 November 2022 9:00 am

The Supreme Court decided rightly on Wednesday, rejecting the Scottish government’s claim that a second referendum on independence was not…

Cop and the League of Nations

12 November 2022 9:00 am

In order to understand why all Cops (Conference of the Parties), including the one which began this week, are so…

Greta’s right about Cop being useless

5 November 2022 9:00 am

Greta Thunberg said, in a newspaper interview, that Cop27 is a ‘scam’ for ‘greenwashing, lying and cheating’. Then she said…

The personal faith of PMs

29 October 2022 9:00 am

I have seen it suggested that because Rishi Sunak is a Hindu, it would be wrong for him to have…

Has a Conservative government got any power at all?

22 October 2022 9:00 am

In the House of Commons on Monday, someone accused Liz Truss’s government of being ‘in office but not in power’.…

Why should Tom Watson be given a peerage and not Paul Dacre?

15 October 2022 9:00 am

Much of this is not Liz Truss’s fault. The great big adjustment all over the West is that the era…

The trouble with Nick Robinson’s Thoughts for the Day

8 October 2022 9:00 am

Thought for the Day appears every morning on BBC Radio 4. This preachy slot is hallowed by longevity, if not…

The genius of Hilary Mantel

1 October 2022 9:00 am

Yes, but why did the IMF put out its Tuesday night statement? Even if all its criticisms of the government’s…

Should Queen Elizabeth II be made a saint?

24 September 2022 9:00 am

If this were a Catholic country, up would go the cry for canonisation. When Pope John Paul II died, the…

The night the Queen refused to read my book

17 September 2022 9:00 am

‘So it is come at last, the distinguished thing!’ exclaimed Henry James on his deathbed. Such a thought is reflected…

Why Liz Truss’s political journey matters

10 September 2022 9:00 am

As is now well known, Liz Truss has travelled politically. Her parents are left-wing, and there is a photograph of her…

Trimble may prove to be Unionism's last statesman

30 July 2022 9:00 am

David Trimble, who has just died, has rightly been praised for his courage. History may prove him to have been…