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Lord Nelson wasn’t queer
After extensive research I can reveal that Adolf Hitler was not, in fact, gay. Nor was he black, transexual, secretly…
Badenoch: I’m being ‘written off’ like Thatcher
The Conservative party conference is in full swing in Manchester with plenty more speeches and fringe events to go. Despite…
Make Peace Great Again
With typical assertiveness, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave his marching orders to the US military at the end of September.…
Is Brendan Carr a ‘great American patriot?’
“We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” the Federal Communications Commission chairman Brendan Carr said on…
The bully doctrine
When the suspended late-night comic Jimmy Kimmel got his show back in late September, he did not apologize for the…
A farewell to summer
On the roads in Amagansett, in the shops, at the train station, the summer crowds have vanished, and those of…
Why do students think a bake sale is the way to mark October 7?
How best to commemorate the horrors of October 7th, 2023? How to mark the day on which hundreds of Hamas terrorists…
The sorry sight of the ageing protestor
Among the 488 arrests at the weekend at what the media is still pleased to call ‘pro-Palestine demonstrations’ were many,…
Immigration isn’t working
The Manchester synagogue attack requires us to ask three questions: where are we, how did we get there, and where…
Could Marine Le Pen save Macron’s presidency?
Emmanuel Macron is cornered, his presidency unravelling under relentless pressure. From left and right, there are demands to dissolve the…
Islamists are the true cry bullies
When I invented the term ‘cry bully’ in this very magazine ten years ago, I had no idea how much…
The case for staying put: why this Jew isn’t leaving Britain
Is it time for the wandering Jews to once again pack up and go? It’s a question that has been…
Jilly Cooper’s novels could well become classics
Dame Jilly Cooper, who has died at 88, had a remarkable career, turning herself from a sparkling writer for newspapers…
What Israel has learned from two years of war
Today marks two years of Israel’s Gaza war. The current conflict is perhaps now close to conclusion, depending on the negotiations…
Has Taylor Swift lost it?
The Pet Shop Boy Neil Tennant once remarked that every successful musician has what he called ‘an imperial phase’, during…
What can we expect from the Simpsons sequel?
It is now more than three decades since President Bush the First declared that American families should be “more like…
Exclusive poll: do the Tories really have a leadership problem?
The Conservative party conference is in full swing and the Spectator is hosting a myriad of events across the next…
Do cities need the National Guard?
“They are the ones who are making it a war zone,” Governor J.B. Pritzker of Illinois bloviated on CNN recently,…
Mel Stride bewilders me
What is the purpose of Mel Stride? I don’t ask this to be personal I just genuinely don’t know. In…
Introducing Japan’s own Iron Lady
Japan is still in many ways a traditionalist – not to say a sexist – society. But the times they…
The generosity and graciousness of Jilly Cooper
Over many years as a journalist, writing for newspapers as well as authoring books, I’ve dealt with a sizeable number…
How Islam and the Bible are fueling France’s ‘baptism boom’
You have probably heard that something extraordinary is happening in the Catholic Church in France. The French bishops’ conference announced…
Why the snobs were wrong about Jilly Cooper
Dame Jilly Cooper, who died today, finally achieved the acceptance that she’d always deserved. She wrote numerous volumes of witty,…
Burnham’s Labour barbs at Tory conference
It’s not just Conservative politicians popping up at the Tory party conference this year: Labour’s Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham…
What’s wrong with ‘angry, middle-aged white men’, Gary Neville?
Just when you thought we could all stop talking about flags, Gary Neville has arrived with his size ten boots…
