The deadline imposed by President Donald Trump, and endorsed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for the release of all hostages…

Why do myths, legends and spirituality now take precedence over science?

The case for capitalism and the threat of its three ugly sisters

The audacity of US power

Trump lets slip the conservative dogs of war

It’s worse than you think

Tariffs can only do so much

Qatar’s involvement with terrorism is an open secret

A spooky kidnapping has a happy ending

Is the Treaty of Waitangi still fit for purpose?

Why didn’t Gazans choose to become this two decades ago?

Donald Trump told reporters this week that he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to free some of the…

If something can be squeezed into a jar with brine, Polish grandmas will do it. Walk into the kitchen of…

A few weeks ago, a couple of men with ladders started work on a former bridal boutique at the end…

All too often, the Prime Minister recently lamented, Britain’s public servants are happy languishing in the ‘tepid bath of managed…

I am delighted that The Spectator is launching a campaign to highlight the grotesque levels of financial waste in government.…

Cape Town How damaging will South Africa’s Expropriation Act be? The legislation, which allows the state to seize private property…

At the Royal Calcutta Turf Club, where ghosts of British nabobs look out over the racecourse, my neuroscientist wife spoke…

Working at The Spectator brings you into contact with intriguing people. One who stands out is John R. Bradley. He…

It’s a summer’s day in Suffolk, some time in 1992. My best friend Rebecca and I are both 14 and…

Strength of service Sir: Matthew Lynn and Steven Bailey (Letters, 1 February) are quite wrong to deplore the decline of…

They say it is good to learn new skills as you get older. Well here goes. I am about to…

Home Andrew Gwynne was sacked as a health minister and suspended from the Labour party for making jokes about a…

Britons used to be able to rely on their parliament to safeguard liberty and their wallets. Those who were sent…

‘I get along with him well. I like him a lot,’ Donald Trump has said of Sir Keir Starmer. ‘He’s…

How do you like your members of parliament? Do you prefer them to be vacuous automatons devoid of wit, humour…

The Chancellor’s appeal to regulators last month for suggestions to boost growth was mocked as evidence that the government itself…

Obviously, it is difficult to defend the leadership of the Church of England, and I am inexperienced in that art;…

It is 50 years since Margaret Thatcher was elected Tory leader and at this week’s shadow cabinet meeting, Lord Forsyth…

A poll out this week found that only 41 per cent of those aged 18 to 27 are proud to…

I was a twin when I was born, but this was in the days before decent scans and proper neonatal…

Forgive me for returning in this column to Diego Garcia. The issue is too important to shrug aside: important not…

We are becoming poorer because we keep choosing to increase spending, taxes and debt, rather than incurring any short-term discomfort, argues Jon Moynihan

Our magnificently monstrous anti-hero goes in quest of a cache of reputedly pornographic letters written by the former US president to his mistress

Beaty Rubens takes us inside the British home 100 years ago as the glamorous new device becomes central to family life

Two impoverished brothers from the Montana backcountry are tempted by the prospect of a daring heist in Yellowstone National Park

Modelled on Putinism’s founding father, Vladislav Surkov, the protagonist of this internationally acclaimed novel pales by comparison with the real-life ideologue

Economic insecurity, intolerance and fear, combined with public expectations that the state will fix everything, are seriously endangering western democracy, warns Jonathan Sumption

The rich biodiversity of Chennai’s littoral is in imminent danger from toxic petrochemical industries, warns the ardent naturalist and activist Yuvan Aves

Though the scholar himself remains an enigma, his theories about language as a portal to the divine are explored in depth by Edward Wilson-Lee

It’s a fascinating thing that The Newsreader is back on ABC iview. This is the soap about a couple of…

The Years is a monologue spoken by a handful of actresses, some young, some old enough to carry bus passes.…

Three projects shedding light on the sacred music of J.S. Bach are nearing completion. The first consists of an epic…

Arts Council England may be successfully clobbering the poor old genre of opera into the ground, but its sister art…

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is the fourth outing for our heroine as played by Renée Zellweger and I…

On his deathbed, the Austrian writer Karl Kraus remarked of the Japanese attack on Manchuria: ‘None of this would have…

Among my many fake and useless skills, I’m a reasonably decent tarot reader. I can do one for you now…

Tracey Thorn released an album in 2010 titled Love and Its Opposite. When it comes to songwriting, it’s the ‘opposite’…

Wouldn’t it be marvellous if instead of going to work every day we could contract out the tedium to avatars…

In the UK, where I have just spent a few weeks, Christmas officially starts when you can’t enter a supermarket…

As Joe Biden rushed (sorry, stumbled) out of the doors of the White House, he flung around things called ‘pre-emptive…

The Audley Public House is on the corner of North Audley Street and Mount Street in Mayfair, opposite the Purdey…

It’s easy to not quite get the Super Bowl. What exactly is it: a sporting event, a music show, a…

Q. How can we get our new unsatisfactory house cleaner to resign? There is a huge demand for cleaners in…

To ‘kickstart economic growth’ is the first (‘number one’) of Labour’s five ‘missions’ to rebuild Britain. That is what the…

David McKelvey, a former detective chief inspector in the Met Police, has called for the prosecution of Andrew Gwynne, the…

‘It may well be that true riches are laid up in heaven,’ declared the blues composer W.C. Handy, ‘but it’s…

The US marine left his long johns down the back of an armchair and the next guest complained that she…

Dante’s Beach, Ravenna The closest I get to a social life these days is when I sneak off into town…