Features
How fascist is Svoboda?
Encounters with the rightward edge of Ukraine’s new government
Gone with the wind turbine
City skylines are protected from careless building. Why should country views be different?
The summer of love
I spent it skipping about in tights, imagining women wanted me
Rise of the mayors
The power to effect real change may lie with dynamic city halls rather than ossified national governments
Book clubs
Everyone knows somebody who belongs to a book club. From informal gatherings of bookish friends in living rooms and cafés…
Single Mum
Scarborough 1939 Mum’s slipping on her see-through dress. Outside our council house a chauffered Rolls is waiting. It’s a beautiful…
Single Mum
Scarborough 1939 Mum’s slipping on her see-through dress. Outside our council house a chauffered Rolls is waiting. It’s a beautiful…
Armageddon averted
Adapting to climate change is far more effective than trying to stop it
A Mixed Ability Room
the english foxhound likes to bay his enemy is the wind instead of grief he feels relief at every innovative…
Let them eat carbon credits
How green policies hit the poorest hardest
The gay double standard
Why should our marriages demand less than straight ones?
Never say ‘never again’
Twenty years ago, I was a witness to the Rwandan genocide. Those who speak of lessons from it are deluded
The need for speed
How the US stock market became ‘a war of robots’
The Visit
Clarissa Tan, who wrote articles and TV reviews for The Spectator, has died of cancer aged 42. She came to…
Sicily
Western Sicily has been a crucible of aspiration and grandeur: the human condition at its most exalted: unsurpassable art and…
A Mixed Ability Room
the english foxhound likes to bay his enemy is the wind instead of grief he feels relief at every innovative…
A Mixed Ability Room
the english foxhound likes to bay his enemy is the wind instead of grief he feels relief at every innovative…
Reclaiming Islam
Can Islam be reconciled with free expression? The answer is yes
Dare to be unaware
Once, campaigners and charities tried to fight social evils. Now they just tell us about them
Operation NHS
Simon Stevens, the new head of the health service, is more radical than the Tories have realised
A dying language
Why I won’t let my children be taught French
Putin’s poison pill
Losing Crimea will be the making of Ukraine. And gaining it might well destroy the Russian president
The equal pay bomb
Birmingham’s £1 billion equal-value pay claim could make public-sector employment a thing of the past
Madrid
I got Madrid utterly wrong for quite a long time. It’s a lovely city to walk in, and I thought…
Cash for class
What money can buy in the modern British establishment
