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Prince Harry loses his police protection legal challenge
It turns out that Home Office can get some things right. The department’s lawyers have today triumphed in their battle…
Muslim activists can’t cancel The Kerala Story
Britain’s cinemas are in danger of becoming the new front line of protests from angry religious mobs demanding the cancellation…
Martin Amis and the idolatry of style over substance
To be a bookish young man in the late twentieth century was to be a Martin Amis fan. I was…
What is Lee Anderson up to?
A new week brings with it a new backbench group. The New Conservatives are a dozen MPs who are drawn…
Is Macron losing France’s war on drugs?
The story that dominated much of the French media last week was the vicious assault of a shopkeeper in Amiens. A…
Elon Musk, George Soros and the blurring of life and art
Was Elon Musk antisemitic when he compared George Soros to Magneto, the apparently Jewish, Marvel Comics supervillain? Whatever one’s view…
The price others pay for our next-day deliveries
When I was not more than nine or ten years old, I sent off in the post for a free poster…
Bud Light remains for sale in virtually every Trump Organization business
As the Bud Light War enters what feels like its fifth year, Cockburn has further evidence that America’s “wokest” brew…
Pet portraitist Mimi Vang Olsen marches to the beat of her own drum
Mimi Vang Olsen operates in the West Village equivalent of a goldfish bowl. Every day, the eighty-five-year-old pet portraitist settles…
What Suella Braverman needs to do to keep her job
As luck would have it, the Home Secretary was down to answer departmental questions in the chamber this afternoon, and…
Gary Lineker honoured for his activism by Amnesty
They say genius is never appreciated in its own time. So we can only be grateful that Gary Lineker’s activism…
New Democracy’s election success is a turning point for Greece
With early results showing a resounding victory for the centre-right New Democracy (ND) in the first round of elections in…
A tribute to my brother, Jeremy Clarke
My big brother Jeremy Clarke, or ‘Jum’ as he is affectionately known by me and my sister, was the most…
Sunak can’t afford to lose Braverman
Back in the early days of the Blair governments, Alastair Campbell was reputed to have a rule for resignations: once…
Has Ukraine launched a ‘special military operation’ in Russia?
While the world is waiting for Ukraine’s spring offensive, something very different happened this morning: an incursion into Russian territory.…
Who is really to blame for Italy’s devastating floods?
Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni cut short her presence at the G7 summit in Hiroshima this weekend to visit the…
The fascinating obsession with Phillip Schofield’s downfall
The rift between Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield, long-standing sobbing/giggling presenters of This Morning, has been one of the big…
Sunak holds Braverman’s fate in his hands
Suella Braverman is in the firing line, following reports the Home Secretary asked civil servants for advice on arranging a…
The best of Low Life: Jeremy Clarke remembered
Jeremy Clarke, The Spectator’s Low Life columnist, died this morning at his home in France. He was 66. For 23…
Jeremy Clarke, 1957-2023
Jeremy Clarke, one of the most loved columnists in the history of The Spectator, died this morning at his home…
The confrontational genius of Martin Amis
Martin Amis had impeccable timing, as anyone who looks at his sentences, paragraphs, chapters, books ought to admit. He died…
The sad truth about Phillip Schofield
You hear a lot about Artificial Intelligence (AI) taking over professions in the near future – and I think television…
Martin Amis 1949-2023: How The Spectator covered his life
Martin Amis died in Florida on Friday, of oesophageal cancer at the age of 73. Some of The Spectator’s best…
When will the Tories face up to Britain’s benefits scandal?
When researching The Spectator cover story last week, we came across a figure so shocking that I felt it had…
Fentanyl is being laced to become even more deadly
In February on a snowy Wednesday, I met a homeless man named David standing outside a Safeway panhandling for money.…
