This week’s issue is unashamedly devoted to the extraordinary victory of Donald J. Trump over Kamala Harris in a landslide…

As you know, we are always happy to report on appointments conferred on the former statesmen who have been so…

The diversity pick gets fired

Starmer stuffs up again

How history was made and Trump was carried to victory

My Trump predictions came true

Labor’s policies are destroying our economic appeal

Fossil fuels boom as Trump KO’s net zero

Trump defeats the sinister machinations of his cartoonish foes

How Trump shattered Kamala’s dream

A symphony in (at least) six parts

Treachery within

On 13 July this year, an assassin’s bullet grazed the ear of Donald Trump as he turned his head on…

Every April and every Halloween weekend, Whitby in Yorkshire is chock-full of goths. As I seem to be The Spectator’s…

How do you solve a problem like Elon? That is the dilemma facing Keir Starmer. Musk seems particularly exercised about…

‘Le Beaujolais nouveau est arrivé!’ If that phrase means anything to you, you’re likely of a vintage that remembers pre-Clarkson…

It’s taken him more than a decade, but Justin Welby has finally united the Church of England. The petition calling…

Of all Keir Starmer’s appointments to government, none have been so personal or politically significant as his choice of Attorney…

‘An old lady’s fallen down – quick! She’s bleeding. Come help.’ An elderly woman lay on the entrance steps of…

Dan Pena has a picture of Adolf Hitler on his wall, but not any old picture. You know, not a…

Those in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill insist they’ve addressed critics’ principal concerns and that…

Kemi Badenoch, in an act of unusual awareness for an MP, intends to learn from her own party’s mistakes as…

Last week I arrived in London from the Cotswolds just in time to witness the collective meltdown from everyone around…

Home Justin Welby resigned as Archbishop of Canterbury, after not reporting to the authorities what he knew in 2013 of…

Arch rivals Justin Welby served longer as Archbishop of Canterbury than any of his four immediate predecessors, but others have…

Unhealthy debate Sir: Matthew Parris is absolutely right to say that the time has come for facing populists with honest…

There is no proper reason for the resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby. No iniquity was proved against…

In the months before the general election, the Labour party had an internal debate about starting a ‘national conversation’ on…

You would think that we Europeans might have learned a thing or two about anti-Semitism over the past century or…

This column comes to you from Atlanta, Georgia, where but for one giant ‘Trump Stands Up For Families’ billboard and…

It’s amazing how many people have responded to what they think of as the shattering catastrophe of Donald Trump’s victory…

Will they be subterranean, to escape extreme heat; or float in the sky, to avoid overcrowding; or abolish streets entirely, like the Line, now under construction in Saudi Arabia?

Subjects include Catesby’s Natural History, London’s lost green spaces, planting for colour in borders and the complexity of a garden’s ecology38

Though well paid as a screenwriter, Parker lampooned Hollywood’s moguls, dubbing MGM Metro-Goldwyn-Merde as she slipped further into alcoholism

There’s a whiff of hauteur in Robert McCrum’s history of the penalty kick – his great-grandfather’s brainchild of 1891, which proved such a momentous change to football

Freya, a respected consultant in a burns unit, is on a secret mission to destroy as many young boys’ lives as possible, having been raped by teenagers on holiday in Cornwall at the age of 12

Avinash Paliwal’s gripping tale of espionage opens in 1949, with newly independent India, Pakistan and Burma racked by rivalries in one of the most intricately partitioned areas on Earth

When the young Martha Dodd arrived at the American embassy in Berlin in 1933 she cared nothing about politics. By the time she left four years later, she was a committed Soviet spy

A Russian biologist’s dream of creating the world’s first seed bank is thwarted by Stalin’s paranoia and the Nazi invasion. But the pioneering project remains a potent symbol of hope

Edwin Frank’s survey of 20th-century fiction stresses the po-faced seriousness of the great novel. But many masterpieces revel in the ridiculous – or are about nothing at all

The Australian Ballet seems to have had a smash hit with Oscar. Not only did the ballet, choreographed by Christopher…

You have to hand it to the curators of this excellent survey of Francis Bacon’s portraits. Not only have they…

I was a weird kid, and though I harboured the usual innocent girlish ambitions of being a drug fiend and…

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button carries a strap-line, ‘an unordinary musical’. Perhaps the word ‘extraordinary’ is simply too banal…

I couldn’t love anyone who didn’t love Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann. Everything – everything – is stacked against this…

The Diplomat bears the same relationship to 21st-century ambassadorial geopolitics as Bridgerton does to the salons and social mores of…

It’s nearly 25 years since Ridley Scott’s Gladiator came out and you’ve probably been wondering what happened to the little…

‘Can I have a photo with you, please?’ It’s the most embarrassing question you can ask of someone you’re interviewing.…

Grade: D+ Ah, the original Linkin Park, except even more spavined. MC5 came outta Detroit in the mid 1960s and…

When William Morris was born in Walthamstow, in 1834, it was little more than a clump of marshland at the…

I am not worried about being outed as a recipient of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ hospitality. Yes, it is true that…

I never thought I’d grow up to be a Grumpy Old Man – but look how good I am at…

Home Kitchen is in Primrose Hill, another piece of fantasy London, home to the late Martin Amis and Paddington Bear.…

The headmaster of one of the best comprehensives in the country was once asked the following question by Tony Blair:…

Q. My wife worked in the picture department of a very reputable auction house but has now taken to retirement…

When it comes to dishing out God’s gifts, you feel the Almighty could be a little more even-handed. Take Joseph-Aukuso…

Provence One of my daughters and a few pals, thinking I need company, have been urging me to get Bumble,…

‘Printers are evil,’ said the office supplies salesman after I texted him to complain that my new printer was not…

Long before I could afford to go racing I began collecting racing books, my first jumble sale acquisition the marvellously…

Sometimes, when it comes to culinary history, Britain is its own worst enemy. For a long time, British food has…