During and after the second world war, there were scurrilous rumours put around, especially by members of the Labor party,…

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The creeping return of antisemitism in a polite Australia

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There were cheers in the Treasury last month as the nation’s statisticians discovered a spare £3 billion down the back…

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If only the Northern line could get its act together. Last week saw further buffing of its reputation as the…

When I joined The Spectator, the office was in Bloomsbury, in a four-storey Georgian house, and the further down the…

In King James VI of Scotland’s Daemonologie, written in 1597, he vigorously encourages witch-hunting and, in particular, the tossing of…

The British science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, proposed a ‘law of science’ in 1968:…

In his youth in the early 2000s, Emil Lundin became obsessed with the idea of recording the world’s ‘most evil…

On the day of the local elections in May, when the Tories suffered a historic setback, Kemi Badenoch went to…

Future proof Sir: Douglas Murray asks why Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech understated the problems (‘Imagine what Enoch Powell…

Javier Milei’s election in 2023 was a repudiation of decades of Peronist turmoil, corruption and inflation. Milei offered shock therapy,…

The beautiful British actress Samantha Eggar has died in LA. I hope that will be the last in a spate…

Home An Iranian man who arrived on a small boat and was deported to France on 19 September under the…

Architects are thrilled about AI, confident that it will take us into an exciting new world at the flick of…

Do you know how much faeces 30 dogs can produce over a couple of years? I have some idea because…

In a radio discussion of the Renters’ Rights Act which passed into law this week, I heard ‘Britain’s housing emergency’…

As others, including Nigel Farage, were quick to point out, Sarah Pochin got it wrong. She uttered words which, shorn…

He helped ‘break’ the Bank of England – but now Scott Bessent is helping to shape its future. As a…

Sarah Pochin’s gonna take a lot of coachin’. You can’t just turn up on the telly and say you’re sick…

Britain is beset by a bogeyman. A giant, mystical beast that the public are forever being threatened with. Remember last…

Aside from streaming on an iPad, one of the few entertainments on offer when riding a stationary bike is tracking…

‘He who controls the past, controls the future’ wrote George Orwell in his classic work, 1984. This is something Tony…

With burgundy prices going through the roof, enthusiasts are flocking to the neighbouring region, which few have taken seriously until now

Helen Fry’s account of the men and women who risked all to provide intelligence about their German occupiers in both world wars makes for a gripping tale of courage, ingenuity and sacrifice

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst shows us the rewards of reading slowly and attentively – and making connections between seemingly disparate things

It is remarkable how few people it took – only around 100 – to cause carnage over four different continents, says Jason Burke

The quintessential Californian band who sang of sun, sand and surfing had, like the Golden State itself, a dark side as well as light

Focusing on the top echelons of Weimar politics, Volker Ullrich barely considers what options ordinary people had, crushed by hyperinflation in the 1920s Republic

From the femme fatale of noir to Fatal Attraction’s Alex, the unattached female has often been feared and scorned

In an outstanding essay on Lucian Freud and Celia Paul, inspirations for each other, Smith even admits to having offered to model for Freud herself as a teenager

The pop pin-up of the 1970s certainly suggests so – and, judging by his ‘official autobiography’, still finds himself endlessly fascinating

The master couturier, once celebrated by le tout Paris, found himself by the 1920s debt-ridden and eclipsed by the likes of Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli

In the archipelago of Glimouria live many fantastic creatures: nereids, mermaids, riddle-posing sphinxes, and endangered dragons in need of rescue by an Outsider

Mansfield’s early infatuations led to many catastrophic rejections – and even in their brief marriage, her husband John Middleton Murry would treat her with wounding indifference

Popular choices include Merlin Holland’s After Oscar, Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know and Vincenzo Latronico’s Perfection

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Let’s face it, The Sleeping Beauty runs the high risk of being a bit of a bore. A wonderfully inventive…

I can’t watch films anymore without looking at my phone. If I watch a film on my laptop, I’ll be…

The Assembled Parties, by Richard Greenberg, is a rich, warm family comedy that received three Tony nominations in 2013 following…

The last Yana-speaker in the world died in 1916. When Ishi was born, the Yana were still a small but…

Bugonia is the latest film from Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite, The Lobster, Poor Things) and it’s about a conspiracy theorist…

Of all the moronic decisions made by cultural organisations over the past 50 years, probably the most insulting and retrograde…

If you didn’t already know that Down Cemetery Road was based on a novel Mick Herron wrote before the Slough…

Ravel’s L’heure espagnole is set in a clockmaker’s shop and the first thing you hear is ticking and chiming. It’s…

The last time Gillian Welch and David Rawlings played in London it was a different world: the world of David…

My local post office is one of four on Sydney’s lower north shore scheduled for closure before Christmas, and everybody…

John writes to ask about the word ‘noisome’? Does it (he asks) have anything to do with noise? The answer…

They say not to judge a book by its cover – but what about judging a recipe by its name?…

There is a fellow called Anthony Newman who is fascinated by drink, as a consumer, a producer and an intellectual.…

The flight from Nice to Bristol was packed. As soon as the doors closed I spotted a hummingbird hawk-moth bumping…

Hanging a pair of gates at the rear of the house gave us so much satisfaction, it suddenly seemed strange…

Q. Some friends of ours have an amazing house on the coast in Kenya. Every time we see them they…

A femtosecond, derived from the Danish word femte meaning ‘fifteen’, is a unit of time in the International System of…

Comp. 3423 invited you to submit a passage about a command or suggestion from literature being taken too literally. I…

Are you a survivor? We are not, luckily, all Gloria Gaynors. She declared in 1979: ‘I’ve got all my life…

They say never meet your heroes, but Bernard Cornwell didn’t disappoint. Knowing I’m a superfan, the events team at The…

Northeastern Kenya We were in beautiful bush country up towards Somalia, in pastures that shone like spun gold in the…