Features
The real God wars
The West’s politicians generally aren’t interested in religion. Increasingly, that means they don’t understand the world
Farage’s strange new ally
Has the Ukip leader seen Beppe Grillo’s website?
Killing jokes
We’re now so eager to take offence that humour is almost impossible
The age of self-love
Pro-masturbation campaigning is a cause for our narcissistic times
The end of estate agents
The internet can – and should – bring it about
Thailand’s next fix
The developing world looks to China for inspiration, not the West
Radøy
The Immigrant Church at Sletta emigrated from North Dakota 18 years ago. Built on the prairie by Norwegian settlers in…
Terror’s comeback kids
Jihadi groups like ISIS rarely manage to hold their ground – but that doesn’t mean they’re going away
Coogan’s friends
Why is Index on Censorship cosying up to the tribune of Hacked Off?
Cad of the Year 2014
A selection of nominations from Spectator writers and others
Eva Remembers Her Two Brothers Called James
When she thinks (if she does) of the first James it is of a six-year-old who died when she was…
Highland swing
Danny Alexander, the coalition’s senior Scot, on cricket,on his battle for Britain and his colleague George Osborne
Letter from Tel Aviv
‘There’s a dark cloud rising from the desert floor/ I packed my bags and I’m heading straight into the storm/…
Churchgoing is good for you
And that’s true whether or not you believe in God
London Hotels
The test of a truly great city is reinvention. Does it have the courage to change? London holds a PhD…
Eva Remembers Her Two Brothers Called James
When she thinks (if she does) of the first James it is of a six-year-old who died when she was…
Eva Remembers Her Two Brothers Called James
When she thinks (if she does) of the first James it is of a six-year-old who died when she was…
The forgotten liberator
Slavery was ended in England not through blood and glory, but by the common law
Save the children
When will we stop the Islamists trying to control the minds of a generation of pupils?
Memory
While in the mirror I’m an aging face More or less the same day after day, In the mind’s darker…
Who runs Britain’s mosques?
Not the moderates we would hope for
World Cup magic
Let’s drop the cynicism and support Roy Hodgson’s England team
An open book
Kindle highlights turn the lonely pleasures of reading into a communal event
Breast advice
Why isn’t there a proper service to show new nursing mothers how to feed their babies?
Salzburg
Salzburg is so ridiculously pretty, it’s sometimes hard to take it seriously. Standing on the ramparts of its knights-in-armour castle,…
