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The Met have found no evidence for an abuse network linked to No10. It’s time they admitted it
Why won’t the police say that they have found no evidence whatsoever of a paedophile network linked to Parliament?
Adventures on the isle that seduced Odysseus
Gozo — Malta’s tiny island neighbour — was once rather a crucial spot in the Mediterranean. The Knights of Malta…
Centralising, illiberal, catastrophic: the SNP’s one-party state
Nicola Sturgeon’s government is an illiberal, centralising disaster. Time for a revolution
My Schubert cruise was a transport of delight
Michael Henderson is transported to raptures on a Schubert cruise
Bring back the bungalow!
We’re not building the right houses for our ageing population
Notes from a very small island: wonderful, eccentric Ascension
A toast to Ascension Island – remote, eccentric, and now vital to the space race – on its 200th birthday
What Scottish professors have to fear from Nicola Sturgeon’s power grab
What Scotland’s professors have to fear from the SNP’s latest bright idea
Dementia Love
You lie so quiet on your bed, You hear the sound and turn your head. I wait and hope, perhaps…
Dementia Love
You lie so quiet on your bed, You hear the sound and turn your head. I wait and hope, perhaps…
Adventures on the isle that seduced Odysseus
Gozo — Malta’s tiny island neighbour — was once rather a crucial spot in the Mediterranean. The Knights of Malta…
Dementia Love
You lie so quiet on your bed, You hear the sound and turn your head. I wait and hope, perhaps…
Sorry, America, but it looks like Joe Biden is your next president
I have a sinking feeling that Joe Biden might be the next president of the United States. In a brilliant…
Women are still scared to talk about IVF. Let’s change that
Pretty soon, one in ten British babies will begin life in a Petri dish. So why is it still such a taboo subject?
Why Carly Fiorina (probably) can’t save the Republicans
Is Carly Fiorina the woman to see off Donald Trump – and Hillary Clinton?
I invented ‘virtue signalling’. Now it’s taking over the world
I invented the term ‘virtue signalling’ in The Spectator. Now it seems to be taking over the world
Look beyond ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ in The Hague
What a fate it is to be hung next to the most famous painting in a gallery. To be overlooked,…
This year, Catholic conservatives are ready for Pope Francis
Where will Francis's Synod on the Family take the Church?
How Putin outwitted the West
His cynical statecraft in Syria has run rings around Britain and America
Look beyond ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ in The Hague
What a fate it is to be hung next to the most famous painting in a gallery. To be overlooked,…
Is it all over for Boris?
His leadership challenge is dwindling while Osborne’s star rises
She could be a contender
Education Secretary Nicky Morgan thinks a woman should run to be the next Tory leader
Premier league
Where will David Cameron rank among Tory prime ministers?
Fancy that
When women lust after blokes on telly it’s funny, not seedy
The Time of Shoring Up
After the years at the gym, the diets and the supplements, he comes — nevertheless — to the time of…
Sex and the Saudis
Since King Abdullah died, the ruling family are without restraints
