Features
In defence of gender
Children are not all ‘gender fluid’. It’s dangerous and wrong to try to persuade them that they are
Another Slice
All the books stored above our heads, all the books there aren’t enough hours to read again, and still we…
Turkey’s climate of fear
President Erdogan’s increasingly tyrannical regime is suppressing the truth about its war on the Kurds
Calling the shots
Amid the hunters, urban cowboys and trigger-happy heroes at the world’s biggest gun show
No, women can’t have it all
Don’t even ask, says Anne-Marie Slaughter, law professor and former adviser to Hillary Clinton. Motherhood still means sacrifice
Game over
If sport loses the public’s faith – and it’s starting to – then all its power and glory will fade
South Georgia Notebook
The terrible news that Henry Worsley had died just 30 miles short of crossing the Antarctic continent unsupported reached me…
The Venice Accademia
The Accademia is one of the smallest of the world’s great art galleries, and picture for picture perhaps the most…
Another Slice
All the books stored above our heads, all the books there aren’t enough hours to read again, and still we…
The Venice Accademia
The Accademia is one of the smallest of the world’s great art galleries, and picture for picture perhaps the most…
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
