The visit to these shores, the furthest-flung and smallest outpost of the transatlantic Spectator empire, by our chairman Andrew Neil,…

For a while there, it looked as if it was impossible to write anything fresh or original about the Voice…

Libs, say goodbye to the wealthy seats. And good riddance.

The paths of virtue lead but to the (political) grave

The debt keeps piling up. Who’ll pay?

Democracy crumbles. Next stop, Tyranny?

How memes are replacing political satire

Well-meaning Australians have no idea what they are voting for

It’s a No from me!

Where’s the rule of law, Merchan?

Do junior doctors really get such a poor deal?

Identity now trumps talent

How the Tories should respond to Labour’s attack ads

A Brit’s life on Ukraine’s front line

I’ve built my own coffin

Meloni’s plan to ‘stop the boats’

The covert war between Iran and Israel

The United Kingdom is one of the last countries in the world to host lavish coronation ceremonies. Europe’s new kings…

Too broad a Church Sir: I am not implacably hostile to Justin Welby; I share Christian empathy with the Archbishop’s…

When Rishi Sunak became Tory leader, the party was 30 points behind Labour: that kind of deficit has historically been…

The journos weren’t very impressed with Nicola Sturgeon’s house. Never mind the plod staring like morons at her barbecue or…

I am actively contributing to the decline of the West and to the collapse of our civilisation. I realised this…

‘Well, they can’t cancel Picasso.’ That was my optimistic take some months ago when a friend in the art world…

A decade ago, American sociologist Michael Hechter quipped that ‘good alien government may be better than bad native government,’ a…

Eight eclectic fables draw on magic realism, science fiction, fairy tales, the Gothic, religion, brutal realism and horror movies

Louise Erdrich explores her Ojibwe heritage, learning to read ancient painted signs on rocks and making ritual offerings to the spirits

The official policy in the event of nuclear war veered from fatuous evacuation plans to a directive to stockpile food, stay home and hope for the best

Katja Hoyer evokes the tears and anger – but also the laughter and pride, as citizens raised their children, went on holidays and joked about their politicians

When Cecilia disappears, her husband and children are left haunted by the mystery – until a character in a German novel strikes the daughter as strangely familiar

Through her interviews with the exuberant countryman ‘Tommy’ Collard, Catrina Davies provides a vivid picture of nature in the raw

The Polish-Jewish writer and artist enjoyed all too brief acclaim before his murder in 1942. Benjamin Balint describes the ongoing battle for ownership of his final works

The politics of late Georgian England provided Gillray, Cruickshank and Rowlandson with perfect fodder for robust, merciless satire

A rich, handsome rock star falls for a schlubby TV comedy writer in an enjoyable, traditional romcom, mystifyingly billed as ‘subversive’ and ‘searingly contemporary’

Philip Hensher admires the humanists of the past, and finds them consistently kinder, more decent and generous than their contemporaries

‘My subject is war and the pity of war,’ Wilfred Owen wrote in the poems which Benjamin Britten set to…

War Sailor (Krigsseileren), a three-part drama on Netflix about the Norwegian merchant navy in the second world war, is one…

It must be 20 years since I first saw Akram Khan dance, and I will never forget the impression he…

I first discovered writer Patricia Highsmith (Strangers on a Train, Carol, the five Ripley novels) as a young teenager working…

Ask a member of Generation Z where in the world they would most like to live, and chances are they…

I was tired when I went to see Milk at the Wellcome Collection, having been up for much of the…

I’m not a natural lender. I’m a reasonably soft touch when it comes to money, but regarding the important things…

A Little Life, based on Hanya Yanagihara’s novel, is set in a New York apartment shared by four mega-successful yuppies:…

Since its première in 1984, Andrei Serban’s production of Puccini’s Turandot has been revived 15 times at Covent Garden, not…

Adrian Tinniswood on the fall and rise — and fall and rise — of England’s greatest architect

After that tweet by Mark Latham, thousands of column words, outraged tweets and statements by MPs quickly followed. I can’t…

This year is the centenary of Vegemite. The classic Australian spread first hit the shelves of local grocery stores in…

The Sessions Arts Club is a restaurant inside the Old Session House in Clerkenwell, a pale George III building where…

It would take a brave man to pick a fight with Roy Keane, and nobody could quarrel with his view…

The couple were VICTORIA (23, 36, 37, 45) and ALBERT (2, 9, 17, 20, 46). 7 was the link. First…

The unclued entries share a definition. Elsewhere, ignore an accent. Across 1    Chap primarily revered among classic characters (5) 12    Barrow…

I wasn’t surprised to hear that six police officers raided a pub in Essex after a customer complained about the…

Chess pie was, in one sense, new to me when I started learning about it a few months ago. I’d…

In Competition No. 3294, you were invited to provide the first 16 lines of an ode to a turnip or…

On the lengthy train ride to Kyiv I read my Plokhy as we trundled through seas of mud, passing villages…

‘Mr Mouse’s days of fine dining are over,’ said the builder boyfriend as he put the finishing touches to his…