Features
Another Slice
All the books stored above our heads, all the books there aren’t enough hours to read again, and still we…
The Trump phenomenon
‘The Donald’ is winning because he is angrier than his rivals
Lashing out in all directions
Trump denounces Muslims, Mexicans… and millionaires
Elite sport
The England team may be riding high, but state schools have all but abandoned cricket
High finance, low tricks
Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, rages against greedy bankers, weak politicians and timid journalists
Rise of the Norland nanny
Edwardian childcare has been updated, and the oligarchs can’t get enough
What Brexit looks like
Life outside the EU would be good for Britain
Israel notebook
Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Croatia, Morocco: if I had picked anywhere else on the Mediterranean for a family holiday, at…
The Clare Valley
It is a century and a half since The Spectator noted the exceptional qualities of South Australia, a colony of…
The Clare Valley
It is a century and a half since The Spectator noted the exceptional qualities of South Australia, a colony of…
Project Fear
Cameron will play on fears of Islamic State, Russia and crime to win an EU ‘In’ vote
Sweden’s shameful cover-up
The truth about the recent mass sex attacks needs to be faced
Keynes’s big mistake
The one thing most people think they know about economics is wrong
America Notebook
I am writing on the morning that President Obama is to deliver his last State of the Union address. You,…
Brighton’s gone Brideshead
My town is overrun with drunken Mileses and Gileses and Violets these days. Cross these oafish students at your peril
Educating Pakistan
The entrepreneur Seema Aziz has founded 256 schools and transformed the lives of many thousands of people. So why does the West ignore her remarkable story?
Lake Iseo
If you’ve never heard of Lake Iseo, you’re not alone. Nestling shyly between chocolate-box Como and glamorous Garda, the smallest…
Lake Iseo
If you’ve never heard of Lake Iseo, you’re not alone. Nestling shyly between chocolate-box Como and glamorous Garda, the smallest…
Desperate state
Disillusioned Islamic State recruits are deserting the bloodthirsty terror group as it loses territory
Abide with Me
Was our first date really a boxer’s funeral? You in pitch, me in black—all in all a noirish affair, how…
The Isis executioner and me
Did my taunt drive Abu Rumaysah to become the new ‘Jihadi John’?
Rwanda’s new tragedy
The ultimate ‘donor darling’ is becoming a dictatorship whose critics live in fear
Sticking to his guns
Whenever there’s another mass shooting in America, like the massacre in San Bernardino last month, I think immediately of my…
The painful truth for Ruth
Scots love their Tory leader. But they won’t vote for her
Public trans sport
My top-deck encounter with a flamboyant stranger
