As Cop 30 grinds to a lamentable end, the indigenous peoples of the Amazon will return to their previous lives…

The Keanster is in a world of trouble

Only the nation state can police itself

‘Renewables are cheaper’ slogan has gone with the wind

Liberals repeating the UAP’s fatal mistake

The serious threat from China’s minerals processing dominance

The grave robbers are back

All is forgiven

Let’s check with the NSW Police acoustics experts

Disappointed and disillusioned New Zealanders are fleeing to Australia

When Russian dissidents were bundled off into exile under the tsars, they were sent to Siberia, the ‘prison without a…

A new drinks-party-shirking method has taken hold in British society. I call it ‘Lastminute.non’. Previously, the way of not going…

Last month, in a two-page letter to colonels of corps and regiments, the Deputy Chief of the General Staff, Lieutenant-General…

‘What’s missing?’ the tech titan Peter Thiel asks me, over lunch on the hummingbird-infested patio of his house in the…

Assuming the BBC is still in existence by the time you read this, the scale of the task facing the…

The most influential person in British media is not Rupert Murdoch or Lord Rothermere – it’s the editor who pushes…

Another week, another government offensive against childhood obesity. This time it’s a fresh round of pleas for new levies on…

Last month, the founder of the Browns restaurant chain was charged with killing his mother. Shocking news, but it feels…

One morning a few months ago I was walking past St James’s Park station when a dishevelled man with his…

Donald Trump has knocked down the east wing of the White House and is turning it into his Golden Ballroom.…

A few years ago, I watched an Irish-made drama on Netflix called Rebellion. Given that it was about the 1916…

Home Tim Davie, the director-general of the BBC, resigned, as did Deborah Turness, the CEO of BBC News. Samir Shah,…

Labour: the clue should be in the name. In March, Keir Starmer branded Labour the ‘party of work’. If ‘you…

Back to reality Sir: The harms caused by cannabis are not a result of a failure to police it properly…

Every time you feel down about Britain’s out-of-touch elites, a look across the Atlantic is a reassuring reminder that it…

At the end of last month, a judge in Belfast issued a verdict that was both right and wrong. The…

Keir Starmer is stuck in a catch-22. If he is to avoid the threat of continual leadership challenges, the Prime…

When the BBC denies ‘systemic bias’, it denies the main, the crucial thing exposed by Michael Prescott’s now-famous leaked internal…

Helping her country ski ever more steeply down the wrong side of the Laffer curve, Rachel Reeves may be preparing…

The softening of the Bank of England’s stance on ‘stablecoins’ looks like another tugging of the British forelock towards the…

They converted to Catholicism in the past century and are among 12 notable ‘defectors to Rome’ examined by Melanie McDonagh

Miles Morland notches up 50,000 miles on his BMW 1000 with trips through Europe, Argentina, Japan, Australia and the United States – without a single accident

Within a bourgeois Church of England milieu of round-robins and parish chit-chat lurk rumours of sabotage and clandestine love affairs

A bizarre experience in the filmmaker’s adolescence involving a woman’s escape from domestic violence seems to have left an indelible mark

After two brutal regimes and a devastating civil war, there’s fear of renewed corruption under President Ahmed al Sharaa, a former al Qaeda terrorist

Subjects include ancient rock carvings, portraiture, images of lost London and the illustrations of Walter Crane

A constant round of fines, surveillance and detention is alleviated by jokes, mischief and a joyous love affair for Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina

Arthur Schopenhauer’s luminous prose, savage wit and commitment to thinking for oneself make reading him an exhilarating, even life-affirming experience

Richo is dead. The supreme fixer of the Labor party is gone. That wise and moderate man Brian Johns who…

On YouTube – and I urge you to look it up – there is a magnificent piece of footage from…

Othello directed by Tom Morris opens with a stately display of scarlet costumes and gilded doorways arranged against a backdrop…

Queen Victoria began to experience dark visions after giving birth to her second child. Concerned that she might have inherited…

Nuremberg is one of those films that falls short on everything it wants to be and everything it could be.…

Janacek’s The Makropulos Case is a weird and very wonderful opera, but its basic plot isn’t hard to follow. Still,…

Numerous research academics have contributed to this highly cogent show celebrating the craftspeople of Ancient Egypt. My pre-teen companion, though…

Britain’s heritage is slowly going up in smoke. Medlock Mill was Manchester’s oldest standing textile mill until it burnt down…

Yeats famously summarised Ireland in the four words, ‘Great hatred, little room’. But, as Louise Kennedy’s 2022 debut novel Trespasses…

‘Celebrate Spring in Nature’, is the call to action on the Parks Victoria website, which urges us to visit the…

Over the past few weeks I have been collecting media clichés – those empty, meaningless, padding words that have turned…

Have a thought for Darren Grimes, the 32-year-old Reform councillor. Since becoming deputy leader of Durham County Council in May,…

One possible solution to the housing crisis is to convene a group of experts in property, housebuilding, planning and local…

Q. A very likeable woman has joined the company I work for and also just moved to my village. I…

‘Pop goes the weasel!’ my husband exclaimed, expertly muddying the waters. We had just been listening to another news bulletin…

Solemn, moving, serious: British. As silence fell and the wreaths were lain, even teenagers joined in the mood of reverence.…

An exhibition at the Eye Film Museum in Amsterdam devoted to the multi-talented and award-winning actress Tilda Swinton, runs until…

‘Where are you off to now?’ I asked the fellow from Hong Kong as he and his wife stood in…

Competition 3425 was prompted by Gill Hornby, a biographer of Jane Austen, telling an audience at the Cheltenham Literature Festival…

A pecan pie has been on my kitchen table for the past few days, due to circumstances rendering every other…

Michael Gove writes: The Spectator asks only one thing of its writers: that they entertain. Susanna Gross, who wrote our…