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The Commonwealth government is at it again, doling out money for a fashionable cause and without any need being demonstrated,…

Rupert, keep an eye on your bunny rabbit Obsessiveness is one of the most fascinating and under-reported aspects of human…

Future revisionists will have a field day

The Johnson government’s green policies are in tatters

The PM has created a presidential role for himself

Why I will continue protesting against the lockdowns

National Cabinet’s Faustian bargain

Duopoly corrupts democracy

Fifty years on, we’re still counting the cost of the ‘Nixon shock’

The great holiday Covid test rip-off

There are many in Donald Trump’s inner circle who have tried to read his mind these past four years, together…

There are many reasons why birds disappear — and why they return. The avocet, however, is probably the only one…

Why would anyone move to the US?

France’s revolt against Covid passports is just beginning

Ending emissions will cost less than tackling Covid

Why the government won’t talk about the real costs of decarbonisation

The government’s promise to fund a pilot scheme promoting the teaching of Latin in secondary schools is music to the…

Woolly thinking There were protests in Whitehall to save Geronimo, an alpaca due to be put down after testing positive…

Wage concern Sir: Martin Vander Weyer’s call for higher wages to end the shortage of British HGV drivers (‘Your country…

Home With less frightening domestic data on the coronavirus pandemic to ponder, subjects such as the rivalry between Boris Johnson,…

For obvious reasons, stocks in ex-editors of The Spectator are experiencing an all-time low. But my own complaint is with…

After seizing so much power during the pandemic, Boris Johnson’s government is having trouble working out where its remit now…

The tale of A-levels shows how ministers can sometimes find themselves in a position when it is simply too dangerous…

Despite having mocked app-happy Albion in my last column, I finally downloaded the NHS app. (Lest I seem a raging…

The literary sensation of the season is apparently a book called The Constant Rabbit, by Jasper Fforde. In brief, a…

Press officers, breathe easy. This is not another column attacking the National Trust. Actually, I tell a lie. It is.…

The Tories regard a return to rigorously marked exams as one of their big achievements in education. In 2010, the…

Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey looks increasingly uncomfortable as inflation notches upwards from ‘nothing to worry about’ towards the…

Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood – and hates it.…

This is an ingenious and infuriating book about an ingenious and infuriating writer. I first encountered Fernando Pessoa in the…

A character in David Hare’s Skylight claims she has at last found contentment by no longer opening newspapers or watching…

One of the first retrospective accounts of Oliver Cromwell’s early career, Andrew Marvell’s ‘An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from…

Audi will make no more fuel engines after 2035. So that’s the end of the Age of Combustion, signalled by…

The Island of Missing Trees feels like a strange title until you realise how hard Elif Shafak makes trees work…

Near to the heart of this wild and labyrinthine novel — on page 516 of 808 — a character in…

Revisionist biographies of Churchill are nothing new but this one lays the hostility and contempt on with a trowel, says Andrew Roberts

Social historians of the future may look back at the reading habits of this era and conclude that we were…

‘The story that Jay Parini recounts in Borges and Me is untrue,’ a recent letter in the TLS claimed, ‘and…

Can you imagine if, in the 20th century, wine producers in France had switched from a product made (almost) entirely…

The title of the journalist Paul Kenyon’s second book on crazy leadership, Children of the Night, leaves the reader in…

Musicians cast a long cultural shadow. Politicians may wield considerable power in their time, but although today’s young people are…

No one has any guarantee of seeing Sigrid Thornton in Lifespan of a Fact with the Sydney Theatre Company now…

Last Sunday on Channel 4, a man called Eric Nicoli proudly remembered ‘the bravest thing I’ve ever done’. In November…

Lloyd Evans finds the newly returned Edinburgh Fringe quieter, more low-key — and all the better for it

Sinatra: Raw (Pleasance, until 15 August) takes us inside the mind of the 20th century’s greatest crooner. The performer, Richard…

Grade: C+ Time to get the razor out again — Billie’s back. The slurred and affected can’t-be-arsed-to-get-out-of-bed vocals. The relentless,…

The Courier is a Cold War spy thriller and the prospect of a Cold War spy thriller always makes my…

What is the National Gallery playing at? Why, in this summer of stop-start tropical storms, is the NG making visitors…

On sketch shows, the wisdom once was that you needed a punchline. That is, a slightly hammy, summative sign-off to…

At time of writing, Australia is sixth on the Tokyo medal ladder and with only one day of competition left…

In December the various dictionaries will announce their choice for the Word of the Year title. For a while I…

Q. A very old friend has rented a holiday house and invited my husband and me to stay. The property…

The fighting started just as Caroline turned right on to the Uxbridge Road after emerging from QPR’s stadium on Loftus…

There was a marvellous general of yesteryear called George Burns. He had a good war and a splendid peace. He…

I often argue that, in theory at least, well-made cocktails are indisputably better than wines costing 20 times more. My…

‘That chap in Line of Duty. That’s what I’d call a bad actor,’ said my husband with vague certainty. He…

‘Contact a GP if you’re worried about symptoms four weeks after having Covid.’ That was the NHS quote on the…

In Competition No. 3211 you were invited to submit a nursery rhyme inspired by the pandemic. When I set this…

One clued solution can precede each unclued light (four of two words and one of three), all to be found…

The unclued lights are the nouns from the opening sentence of The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter. TAFFETA was…

I was sitting quite still at the typewriter when a plump mouse emerged from under the fridge and crossed the…

White to play. Abdusattorov–Durarbayli, Sochi 2021. The endgame looks tricky, but White found a way to force a quick mate.…

Coronis Embracing one’s vulnerability seems to have replaced the higher, faster, stronger ethos of the Olympics. The very frailty that…

Two years ago, the brilliant young Polish player Jan-Krzysztof Duda made a baffling decision. In the second game of his…

Most of us have lost a year and a bit, but hopefully we will get back to normal (bridgewise) fairly…