On too many fronts, our civilisation and our decency are crumbling before our eyes. The beauty, of course, of the…

Here at the Spectator Australia Political Research Institute we have been grappling with the most contentious issue that is currently …

Britain’s grim march to Labour

Maths shows how quantum computing hopes are fantasies

And other such rubbish

Welcome to classroom Victoria

On averting a Lake Nyos-style catastrophic gas explosion

The West’s useful idiots are being useful again

The collapse of our moral universe was predictable

Is an armed attack on the Philippines possible?

Labor’s disgrace

Last week, the Hollywood team making the latest Mission Impossible film was desperate to clear Trafalgar Square of its superabundant…

It was only a matter of time before America’s student protests spread to the UK. In Oxford, tents have been…

On the grass in front of UCL’s main building, on Sunday night, there were about 30 tents and the portico…

Jerusalem For weeks the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had been preparing for an assault on Rafah. Yet when the order…

‘You grab that table, I’ll get the drinks.’ I did as bid. A couple of minutes later, Paul was back,…

For weeks, the Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi has looked like a battlefield. Thousands of protestors, mostly in their twenties, have…

On a quiet street in Belgrade, a bronze statue of Confucius stands in front of a perforated white block, the…

‘I looked at a picture of him today and thought: “Why are you wearing those expensive clothes, you twit?”’ Plum…

Every week I check the weather in Longyearbyen, the main settlement in Svalbard. It’s about as close as you can…

Home The local elections proved dreadful for the Conservatives but not quite perfect for Labour. The Conservatives lost 474 of…

Nick Boles was once at the heart of a mission to renew Conservatism. He was one of a small number…

Right is wrong Sir: Katy Balls’s article ‘Survival Plan’ (4 May) starts from a false premise. The problem is not…

Last week Mary Wakefield discussed the virtues of her ‘Victorian’ education, designed to stiffen the upper lip of the young…

Can nothing protect us from a plague of plastic tree protectors? They’ve descended on us like locusts, covering our hills,…

The US crackdown on trade finance for Russia from international banks – designed to impede imports needed for the continuing…

There was plenty for Rishi Sunak and his cabinet to discuss on Tuesday morning. The Conservatives had lost half of…

The new hunting year formally began last week. Should I resubscribe? Politically, the outlook is bleak. In February, Steve Reed,…

I am looking for a way to get £80,000. The sum would come in handy. I could put it towards…

I originally intended to observe that American universities’ anti-Israel protestors and Hamas terrorists deserve each other, because they’ve so much…

Tamsin Mather is the latest highly articulate volcanologist to combine vivid personal experience with thoughtful scientific explanation

When the father of a family takes in a lost young girl from a minority ethnic group, he puts his own household at risk as racial persecution mounts

The best hedges teem with the biodiversity that plays such a vital part in our future. Yet, since the 1950s, farmers and developers have been destroying them at an alarming rate

Henry VIII considered the queen’s household a fruitful hunting-ground – for a mistress, a future wife, or a pawn, whose testimony could provide useful damaging evidence

Bengalis are renowned for their love of discussion and argument, and a new collection of short stories reflects this passion for cultured conversation

Though deeply attached to her ‘squat, odd-looking house’ near Uffington, Clover Stroud comes to realise that home is as much about bonds between people as a particular place

Instead of condemning it as dangerous fantasy, two new books argue that we should welcome nostalgia as ‘emotional armour’ in a fast-changing world

Before the arrival of ‘proper’ doctors, everyone in the Middle Ages, from rulers to peasants, turned to magic practitioners and cunning folk for healing and advice

While waspishly dismissive of many of the 20th century’s greatest artists, Bacon was also critical of his own work, in conversation with David Sylvester

Isn’t it strange that the new television, the television of the streamers which has dominated our world since Covid, has…

The hip end of the folk spectrum is in rude health right now. Dublin’s mighty Lankum lead the way, but…

There’s no escaping Christopher Wheeldon – a modest, amiable fellow from Yeovil of whom anyone’s mum would be proud. Reaching…

Another week at the opera, another evening with an elitist and ethically dubious art form. I love it; you love…

Minority Report is a plodding bit of sci-fi based on a Steven Spielberg movie made more than two decades ago.…

La chimera, which, as in English, means something like ‘the unrealisable dream’, is the latest film from Italian writer/director Alice…

What would C.J. Sansom have made of the Disney+ version of his novel series about 16th-century crookback lawyer Matthew Shardlake?…

The love affair between so many Americans and their guns – long a source of international fascination – appears to…

You’re pushing 60 and an important patron asks you to repeat an artistic feat you accomplished in your thirties. There’s…

As the terrible events in Bondi Junction last month reminded us, fortune doesn’t always favour the brave. Indeed, the courage…

Speccie reader Terry writes to ask when and where did ‘non-binary’ come into the language – and who applied it…

Rishi Sunak has been widely ridiculed for trying to spin the local election results as bad news for Keir Starmer.…

In ‘The Adventure of Silver Blaze’, Sherlock Holmes mentions ‘the curious incident of the dog in the night-time’. ‘But the…

Q. On a recent short-haul flight, I had the misfortune to be seated next to a much older man who…

‘Sparks,’ said my husband, after a short pause. I had asked him what one could spark. His answer was true…

Drink and longevity: there seems to have been a successful counter-attack against the puritans, prohibitionists and other health faddists. Indeed,…

Laikipia, Kenya By the time I set off from the farm before dawn we’d had 22in of rain in the…

A letter from Archie Norman, chairman of M&S, popped into my inbox after I complained that I had run over…

One of us must once have told a political pollster: ‘I really have no idea at all who I’m going…