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It’s dangerous and wrong to tell all children they’re ‘gender fluid’

30 January 2016 9:00 am

Children are not all ‘gender fluid’. It’s dangerous and wrong to try to persuade them that they are

Another Slice

30 January 2016 9:00 am

All the books stored above our heads, all the books there aren’t enough hours to read again, and still we…

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Turkey is turning into a paranoid one-party state

30 January 2016 9:00 am

President Erdogan’s increasingly tyrannical regime is suppressing the truth about its war on the Kurds

Shooting targets on display at Shot Show (Photo: Getty)

A roomful of firearms and fantasists at the world’s biggest gun show

30 January 2016 9:00 am

Amid the hunters, urban cowboys and trigger-happy heroes at the world’s biggest gun show

What stops women from having it all

30 January 2016 9:00 am

Don’t even ask, says Anne-Marie Slaughter, law professor and former adviser to Hillary Clinton. Motherhood still means sacrifice

Novak Djokovic, the world number one, said that he turned down US$220,000 to throw a match. (Photo: Getty)

This could be the year that sport starts to die

30 January 2016 9:00 am

If sport loses the public’s faith – and it’s starting to – then all its power and glory will fade

Ernest Shackleton and other South Georgia ghosts

30 January 2016 9:00 am

The terrible news that Henry Worsley had died just 30 miles short of crossing the Antarctic continent unsupported reached me…

Masterpieces this way

The Venice Accademia: is this the smallest great gallery in the world?

30 January 2016 9:00 am

The Accademia is one of the smallest of the world’s great art galleries, and picture for picture perhaps the most…

Another Slice

28 January 2016 3:00 pm

All the books stored above our heads, all the books there aren’t enough hours to read again, and still we…

Masterpieces this way

The Venice Accademia

28 January 2016 3:00 pm

The Accademia is one of the smallest of the world’s great art galleries, and picture for picture perhaps the most…

Another Slice

28 January 2016 3:00 pm

All the books stored above our heads, all the books there aren’t enough hours to read again, and still we…

Donald Trump offers only gloom, insults and arrogance - and America loves him for it

23 January 2016 9:00 am

‘The Donald’ is winning because he is angrier than his rivals

Donald Trump is lashing out in all directions

23 January 2016 9:00 am

Trump denounces Muslims, Mexicans… and millionaires

In most state schools, cricket is a dead ball game

23 January 2016 9:00 am

The England team may be riding high, but state schools have all but abandoned cricket

The low tricks of high finance: how greedy bankers, weak politicians and timid journalists could cause a new crash

23 January 2016 9:00 am

Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, rages against greedy bankers, weak politicians and timid journalists

How Norland nannies became the ultimate status symbol

23 January 2016 9:00 am

Edwardian childcare has been updated, and the oligarchs can’t get enough

What Brexit would look like for Britain

23 January 2016 9:00 am

Life outside the EU would be good for Britain

Why were we going to Israel? For the winter sunshine, of course

23 January 2016 9:00 am

Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Croatia, Morocco: if I had picked anywhere else on the Mediterranean for a family holiday, at…

Like southern France — with added kangaroos

The lovely Clare Valley, like southern France with added kangaroos

23 January 2016 9:00 am

It is a century and a half since The Spectator noted the exceptional qualities of South Australia, a colony of…

Like southern France — with added kangaroos

The Clare Valley

21 January 2016 3:00 pm

It is a century and a half since The Spectator noted the exceptional qualities of South Australia, a colony of…

Project Fear: how Cameron plans to scare us into staying in the EU

16 January 2016 9:00 am

Cameron will play on fears of Islamic State, Russia and crime to win an EU ‘In’ vote

It’s not only Germany that covers up mass sex attacks by migrant men... Sweden’s record is shameful

16 January 2016 9:00 am

The truth about the recent mass sex attacks needs to be faced

The one thing most people think they know about economics is wrong

16 January 2016 9:00 am

The one thing most people think they know about economics is wrong

America notebook: How Donald Trump is destroying the Republican party

16 January 2016 9:00 am

I am writing on the morning that President Obama is to deliver his last State of the Union address. You,…

My Brighton’s gone all Brideshead

16 January 2016 9:00 am

My town is overrun with drunken Mileses and Gileses and Violets these days. Cross these oafish students at your peril