As this magazine has pointed out, and not always tongue-in-cheek, wait long enough and today’s vehemently denounced conspiracy theory is…

There is certainly a right for former judges to put an advertisement in the newspapers extolling the virtues of the…

Turf out the bedwetters, Dutts

Albanese’s referendum will break many hearts

For exposing the craziness of your woke banking practices

But voters continue to move against the Green tide

The real story behin January 6 is slowly emerging

End of the pandemic? Or just Intermission?

Sofronoff, Drumgold and the presumption of innocence

Nothing compares to men

Welfare dependency is always a disaster

The renewed war on rural pursuits

The crisis in research

Where’s my testosterone?!

South Africa’s new villain

The curse of e-bikes

Over decades of service as a floating hotel, the Bibby Stockholm has accommodated all manner of people. It has housed…

The temperature has hit 40°C in Crete, where I am writing this, and although there have been no fires, nothing…

Scout’s honour Thousands of teenagers were evacuated from the World Scout Jamboree in South Korea as flooding, a heatwave and…

Earlier this summer, a hundred or so Londoners gathered around a solar-powered stage truck at Highbury Fields to celebrate 40…

This week’s truism: all top-down attempts at leftie social engineering end up causing rather more misery and injustice than the…

In an outstanding article in the New York Times, Roger Cohen recounted his experience of travelling across Russia for a…

‘Only boring people get bored’ is what we were all told as children. What we were not warned about was…

Much heartened by the barrage of criticism I’ve been receiving from both Spectator and Times readers, I’m returning to the…

The decolonisers in Britain’s universities are not just trying to defend their views. They are seeking to upend the free market in ideas by imposing them, says Doug Stokes

When a man with a machete infiltrates a local synagogue on Rosh Hashanah, the peace of one the ‘greenest, quietest, safest’ places in America is shattered

The founding member of the Small Faces was playing an instrument from the age of six, but was forever haunted by the fear of MS, the inherited disease which eventually killed him

Mark Hollingsworth describes how the KGB became the world’s most industrious conspiracy-theory factory, with its agents of influence dedicated to sowing maximum confusion

Violence and death are balanced by hard-won, transcendent joy in Beard’s remarkable stories that merge fiction and memoir

With its carefully calibrated sense of time, the Iliad is clearly the work of a single man and not a ‘rolling snowball’ of different contributions, argues Robin Lane Fox

The nomadic tribes of Central Asia eventually created vast empires that changed not only their own world but western history, says Kenneth W. Harl

Grotesque conspiracy theories merge and snowball, with serious global consequences. James Ball proposes a Digital Health System to counter the ‘pathogens’

A scientist finds a way to access other realities and bequeaths the secret to her daughter. But a dangerous adversary is on the trail

After years of insomnia, Marie Darrieussecq derives some comfort from finding herself in the company of Kafka, Kant, Proust, Dostoevsky, Borges and Plath

The history of the magnificent Thames-side palace, with its outrageous shenanigans spanning five centuries, is vividly brought to life by Gareth Russell

In skilfully told stories involving luck and changes of fortune, Osborne suggests that it’s not the hand you’re dealt that matters, but how you play it

Thirlwell’s protagonist Celine flees malicious gossip in revolutionary France to ponder on sisterly solidarity, patriarchal violence, motherhood, colonialism and slavery

Eileen O’Shaughnessy’s creative influence on her husband George Orwell has been ignored for far too long, says Marina Benjamin

Red, White & Royal Blue is a rom-com based on the LGBT bestselling novel by Casey McQuiston. Nope, me neither,…

If you have never seen Bernadette Robinson give yourself a treat and see her current one man show, Divas. It’s…

In 2015 Carlos Acosta announced his retirement from the Royal Ballet and the classical repertory. It seemed like the right…

A chilly August in Edinburgh. Colder than it’s been for 20 years and the city looks scruffier than ever. Locked…

The Reunion opened in 1997 with some young people being carefree: a fact they obligingly signalled by zipping around the…

It’s not just who our pop heroes are that marks the passing of the generations; it’s how those heroes present…

Trophy office blocks designed as landmarks are not welcoming to humans; their glass and steel reception areas feel more suited…

Calvin Po laments the pious distortions of history at two of Britain’s best-known galleries

‘Senior moment’, being an affectionate descriptor for the kind of harmless temporary memory failure which presages more serious cognitive decline,…

The Albanese government has established a ‘Makarrata Commission’ with a budget of $5.8 million dollars. So, what is this word…

In Competition No. 3311, you were invited to submit a song suitable for inclusion in a parliamentary songbook. In an…

I once drank some excellent port at Ted Heath’s table. The invitation came as a surprise, but it almost certainly…

Q. I have a public profile and have always looked after my personal presentation, but my identical twin has never…

I’m loath to write about the current Fifa World Cup because criticising women’s football is textbook ‘misogyny’ – at least,…

I have two suggestions for HS2. Either stop it or make it stop. The spiralling cost and delays are reason enough…

On no course in Britain does jockeyship count for more than at undulating, tricksy Goodwood and although Frankie Dettori was…

‘Come on, let’s get a move on with filling in all the forms and we could have this done and…

  Athens   With energy bordering on the demonic, I strut around an ancient stadium trying to make up for…