What went wrong? This time a year ago, Peter Dutton and the Coalition were riding high in the polls, still…

Give me a break

Gathering rosebuds of consolation

This was a pivotal election

Trump is stressing the US-dollar-based fiat money experiment

Is the broad church too broad?

Francis stayed silent as jihadists wiped out African Christians

The anti-Israel Irish punk band are a joke

The new Forgotten People

‘South Park’ predicted it

Liberals must follow the Rinehart Plan

Ringo Starr is mostly known as the second or third best drummer in the Beatles. But for me – as…

Tried to send a parcel lately? Or a letter? If it involves a trip to a post office, all I…

At the end of last month, a fire at an electrical substation in Maida Vale caused chaos in west London.…

In 1988, when I was six months old, my British father and Polish mother took me to meet my family…

From a western perspective, memorising all 114 chapters of the Quran might seem an unusual qualification for a national leader.…

Reform’s success in last week’s local elections has been attributed to many causes. Labour’s abolition of the winter fuel payment…

I spent my childhood being ferried around in my mom’s minivan, a hunter green Ford Windstar. Compared with most family…

Since we moved into our house in the Cyclades a few years ago, I’ve come to accept that if you…

This week we celebrated VE Day. When Pericles remembered the dead from the war against Sparta in his famous Funeral…

Democracy was born in the public square. The Athenian agora was the central meeting place of an engaged citizenry where…

‘What!? But they won’t let you in!’ and ‘What!? But they’ll detain you at the border!’ and ‘What!? But they’re…

Home In a day that upset the apple cart of party politics, Reform won the Runcorn and Helsby by-election by…

Ka-shing in Sir: Ian Williams highlights (‘Chasing the dragon’, 3 May) the degree to which the Chinese state has acquired…

I doubt I’m alone among Spectator readers in feeling a certain slight but nagging discomfort when I hear those on…

I’ll bet most women under 50 in relationships with men have found themselves wondering when on earth the man is…

These are dark and bewildering days for Britain’s community of Good People, the ones who – insulated from material discomfort…

On Monday night, a hundred Reform staff and donors met at a Marylebone pub to toast the local election results.…

Do you remember the great Adolescence debate? It may feel like an age ago, but way back in March Netflix…

A hangar full of analysts and investment bankers must have spent the long weekend formulating advice for Shell chief executive…

More than 12 million Brits engage in some form of voluntary work, many of whom have dropped everything to help those arriving in small boats

Accessible, ‘relevant’ short stories are increasingly replacing the classics, as the monuments of Victorian literature defeat today’s undergraduates

Ignoring her mother Liv Ullmann’s advice, 16-year-old Linn accepted the offer of a photo shoot in Paris in 1983 – and has been haunted by the experience ever since

From a temple to Athena, it became a Byzantine, then Latin, church, a mosque, a powder magazine and finally a ruin. Lord Elgin’s vandalism was hardly anything new

Decades of change follow the 1964 revolution in Zanzibar, with boutique hotels multiplying in Stone Town’s haunted streets. But is a whole way of life being threatened?

A documentary film-maker grows obsessed by a recurring character in a celebrated series of novels – much to their author’s mounting displeasure

The ability of species of nudibranch to incorporate the cells of completely separate species could have profound implications for humanity, says Drew Harvell

The transporting of 150,000 troops across the Channel in total secrecy and the feats they did that day is a story we never tire of – and Max Hastings tells it exceedingly well

Part grief-memoir, part macabre escapade, Zinovieff’s latest book is inspired by her own father’s bizarre strictures regarding his funeral

A baking tin, a toast rack and a soup tureen conjure poignant reminders of the past - while Wilson’s wedding ring is transformed into the world’s smallest pastry cutter

No tennis player was so well suited to the centre court at Roland Garros, where the Spaniard won a record of 14 French Open titles

We sometimes forget how much opera provides a captivating alternative to classic drama but this was written all over Opera…

The Gang of Three gets into the nitty-gritty of Labour politics in the 1970s. It opens with the resignation of…

Poor John Dennis. In 1709, the playwright devised a novel technology to simulate thunder to accompany his drama Appius and…

Grade: B+ You are in the wrong hands here for what is a homage to this duo’s favourite electronic music.…

Why is Hiroshige’s work so delightful? While his close predecessor Hokusai has more drama in his draughtsmanship, Hiroshige’s pastoral visions…

The jazz style was the blowsy filling between the noxious crusts of two world wars. More than 30 years passed…

Leni Riefenstahl: what are we to make of her? What did she know? Often described as ‘Hitler’s favourite filmmaker’, she…

The Merry Widow was born in Vienna but she made her fortune in the West End and on Broadway. The…

Antonin Carême was known as the ‘chef of kings and the king of chefs’. His patrons and employers included Talleyrand,…

There’s a lot to be said for an artist making an audience feel uncomfortable. Richard Thompson used to say that…

Of all the Gospel parables, I’ve always thought the one that would be hardest to pitch to Hollywood would be…

The New York Times has coined the expression ‘dark Woke’ to describe the current strategy being used by the Democratic…

Delamina Townhouse is on Tavistock Street in Covent Garden. It is an Israeli restaurant, and a very fine and subtle…

I’m not sure quite what Sir G. Boycott would have made of it, but the People’s Republic of Yorkshire was…

Q. I have a problem with a much older friend who is slightly insecure and super-sensitive to criticism and I…

‘Six!’ cried my husband, waving his notebook as he monitored the by-elections. He wasn’t counting Reform wins but the ways…

The online speed awareness course cost £101, or a few pounds less if you didn’t want to book ‘flexible’ so…

After we bought a place on my father’s hill farm in 2000, I’d study the notices pinned to boards in…

Competition 3398 invited you to submit a poem about snooker as the world champion-ship was under way. The entries poured…

With racing there is always a little history involved. One of the few top races John Gosden has never won…

Vasyl Ivanchuk was at the centre of a heart-rending scene during the tenth round of the World Blitz Championship in…

Last week Caroline sent me an Instagram reel that featured a Norwegian word and its English translation. A ‘tidsoptimist’, I…