Much like an excited puppy being shown around its new home, tails were wagging here at The Spectator Australia this…

Politics of the Census

Plibersek & Shorten

We have to talk about the states

Full-employment stagflation - quite the achievement!

‘There will be growth in the spring’. Or not.

Blame the hippies

Watermelon protesters only seek to disarm the West

Race politics is killing the Kiwi dream

The ABC’s woeful response to my letter

Beware: career politicians are in the process of delivering this

I first came across the Zoe programme when a bright yellow package arrived on my parents’ doorstep last year. My…

It’s a Wednesday evening, and I’m getting psyched up to go catch a paedophile with the boys. Playlist on, rocking…

I recently estimated that, in my smoking life so far and at the age of 29, I have rolled 87,600…

Even Horace Rumpole could not have secured an acquittal for Lucy Letby. The more I look at this case, the…

Last week, on a Swedish train somewhere between Linkoping and Mjolby, as I struggled to open a bag of cheesy…

For many, not just mathematicians, the Riemann hypothesis is the very definition of a supremely difficult problem that might be…

The first presidential debate of 2024 changed history by killing off Joe Biden’s career. The second presidential debate was nowhere…

I recently convened an urban studies summer school in a top university in Shanghai and asked the assembled class of…

We have been told that committees will meet, urgent discussions will be held, the guilty will be punished, and steps…

For the past year or so, I’ve been involved in selling The Spectator as well as editing it. A long…

Home The government won by 348 to 228 a Commons vote on limiting the winter fuel allowance for pensioners to those…

In the end, the German state of Thuringia did not fall into the hands of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland…

Lessons to learn Sir: Your leading article ‘Requires improvement’ (7 September) rightly raised concerns that a curriculum review in England…

In February there was a commotion at Canterbury Cathedral. Or, to be more precise, there was a silent commotion. The…

In the long and illustrious history of race chancing, there must have been many more egregious examples than that of…

Last week, there was a surprise visitor to the Treasury: Gordon Brown. The former prime minister and chancellor secretly returned…

Gordon Brown introduced the winter fuel payment shortly after becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1997, following his party’s landslide…

We expect Ryanair tickets to cost more on holiday Saturdays than term-time Tuesdays and Uber fares to surge in the…

My friend Tim Leunig is a cerebral thinker of the best kind. Though not party-political, he has worked for Tory…

The plump teenager who married Randolph Churchill soon turned herself into a ravishing beauty – to become the 20th century’s most influential seductress

An American spy-for-hire uses her feminine wiles to infiltrate an eco-warrior group in rural France. But will she go off-piste and become indoctrinated?

An ambitious young black woman working for a charitable trust clashes with its white octogenarian founder over what each thinks they deserve

Archaeology indicates that the first migrations of hunters through Asia into the Americas and Australasia directly contributed to collapses in the Pleistocene megafauna

The devastating crash at Munich-Riem airport in 1959 haunts Manchester United fans to this day. Peace defies anyone to read his novel and use ‘Munichs’ as an insult ever again

The belligerent young hero of Agincourt really was the model of a medieval monarch, doing the job exactly as it was supposed to be done, according to Dan Jones

The reporters who descended on Nuremberg in October 1945 included some of the century’s greatest writers. But the protracted proceedings would test their patience – and integrity

Friedrich’s scenes may appear to depict nature unbound, but they are also famous for their Rückenfiguren in the foreground, the men and women with their backs to us, facing what we also see

A peasant girl flees her abusive home, to find happiness working for Jewish families in the lush Carpathian countryside – until anti-Semitic pogroms change everything irrevocably

Certain fungi poison not only to the animals but the trees that surround them, while others have valuable medicinal properties and can flag important changes to the ecosystem

Like many 15th-century women, Margaret Paston was a fearless protector of her family, supremely capable, in her husband’s absence, of defending their property against predatory neighbours

Noni Hazlehurst’s performance in Daniel Keene’s The Mother is a thing of wonder and terror, overwhelming in its power and…

The Perfect Couple is an exemplar of that genre sometimes cynically known as ‘poverty programming’: dramas that train all of…

The Critic is a period drama starring Ian McKellen as a newspaper theatre critic famed for his savagery and it…

The Band Back Together is a newish play, written and directed by Barney Norris, which succeeds wildly on its own…

‘Of all the things I’ve drawn,’ Michael Craig-Martin reflects, ‘to me chairs are one of the most interesting.’ We are…

Song for song, line by line, blow for blow, Elvis Costello remains the most consistently fascinating songwriter Britain has produced…

This week’s Archive on 4 is a treat for David Bowie fans. Francis Whately, the producer behind several of the…

Klaus Makela is kind of a big deal. He’s a pupil of the Finnish conducting guru Jorma Panula – the…

Cynics will say it is just a coincidence that Qantas sacked its longest-serving board member a few days after I…

Strangely, the latest word Kamala Harris has chosen to apply to Donald Trump is ‘unserious’. (Or perhaps it was her…

Every time I have a protracted ding-dong with a big organisation, I put in a request under data protection law…

Conservatives used to be good at inspiring a mass membership, underpinned by organisations. Before the first world war, the Primrose…

Dante’s Beach, Ravenna In my life I have nearly killed myself mainly with cigarettes and alcohol and dangerous journeys into…

The summer holidays were a washout as far as my children are concerned, because we had to cancel our trip…

If I had my life again and was asked to choose a superpower, I’d like to come back as one…