‘My own forays into Wrongthink have made me the subject of constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with my views.’…

‘Daddy, what did you do in the Great Pandemic?’ People are getting ready to answer this question for when things…

In the Cancel Culture Revolution now under way, the role of woke corporations continues to defy rational belief. Even the…

Vision of justice ‘Justice is the end [goal] of government. It is the end of civil society,’ argued James Madison,…

‘Flattening the curve’ gets ‘homogenised’ into ‘eradication’

Judicial activism has destroyed the meaning of citizenship

It’s the restaurant guide to higher learning

Trudeau’s chickens come home to roost

Anti-Zionism fuels the so-called ‘anti-racist’ BLM

Don’t give the WHO a brass razoo

The pros and cons of being hacked

Britain’s forgotten demographic

Can the Classics escape the grip of their past?

Rishi Sunak found himself in hot water last week, though fortunately it was not too hot. Just the right temperature,…

It’s a mistake to turn Hagia Sophia back into a mosque

Welcome to the world you created, J.K. Rowling

Why would anyone want to work from home?

Not going to school was the making of me

A rare illness has broken out in Westminster. Last week a case of what was known before Brexit as ‘consensus’…

Growing pains Sir: James Forsyth (‘Rewiring the state’, 4 July) shocked this loyal Spectator reader with the following: ‘Even before…

When Michael Gove delivered the Ditchley Annual Lecture last month he spoke about why citizens feel that the political system…

In 1984, China agreed a ‘one country, two systems’ treaty with the UK, designed to control the relationship between Hong…

Home New regulations would compel people to wear a face covering in shops in England from 24 July on pain…

Take cover The government has said it will make wearing masks compulsory in shops. Mandatory masks rather run against the…

We are enjoined by certain experts to wear face masks while having sexual intercourse. No change there, then, for me.…

‘Just rejoice’, as Mrs Thatcher once said about something else. The government’s decision to debug our national security by getting…

This column has been banging on about the peculiar nature of Huawei, the Chinese telecoms giant, ever since its expanded…

The greatest single danger to this government is the state of the Union. Prime ministers can survive many things, but…

The only memorable argument I have ever heard in that tedious debate about whether Shakespeare was a Catholic came from…

I’ve never dug a grave before. But that was how I spent my Sunday afternoon. Three feet is awfully deep…

Sorry For Your Trouble (Bloomsbury, £16.99), Richard Ford’s 13th book of fiction, shows a writer still very much on song.…

Who would imagine that Johann Zoffany’s celebrated 1780 depiction of the extensive Sharp family happily making music on their pleasure…

A journalist and poet based in Zagreb, Robert Perišic was in his early twenties when the socialist federal republic of…

It wasn’t Henri IV’s Sunday poule au pot or Herbert Hoover’s less sexy-sounding chicken in every pot, but even in…

Passé Blanc is the Creole expression — widely used in the US — for black people ‘passing for white’ to…

Ludwig von Beethoven belongs among those men whom not only Vienna and Germany, but Europe and our entire age revere.…

Michael Bywater wonders why the existence of smell still seems such a guilty secret

Competition is stiff among museums in Iceland. The Phallological Museum in Húsavík, devoted to the penis, stands tall in a…

It wasn’t until half way through Jenny Kleeman’s Sex Robots and Vegan Meat that I was able to put my…

Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York moved to the lectern. It was the Cow Palace in San Francisco in…

Shortly after moving to Manhattan in the noughties I was strolling through the West Village when I came across a…

The National Gallery of Victoria has closed again ‘until further notice’. The rest of the country is more fortunate, at…

Let’s face it. Theatre via the internet is barely theatre. It takes a huge amount of creativity and inventiveness to…

The American diet was probably at its healthiest in the second world war. Fearing interruption to supply chains, Washington launched…

Clemency stars Alfre Woodard as a prison warden on death row whose job is beginning to take its toll, and…

Gwyneth Paltrow has a new neighbour. On the same block in Notting Hill as Gwynie’s Goop store, with its This…

If you want to understand Beethoven, listen to his piano sonatas. Without them, you’ll never grasp how the same man…

Tanya Gold on the rise and fall of drive-in cinema

It might seem a bit of a stretch to see deep similarities between Michaela Coel (young, female, black and currently…

Every time Jeffrey Epstein is in the news, I start getting calls from strangers wanting to scream abuse at me.…

So all that sound and fury about Manchester City’s sins signified precisely nothing. Well, a €10 million fine isn’t nothing,…

I was trying to understand what they meant on the wireless by deadweight costs. These were something to do with…

Brasserie Zédel is a grand salon under Piccadilly Circus and the only place I desired when lockdown (or lock-in) ceased…

Gstaad Are any of you tired of reading about Ghislaine Maxwell and her sleazy life? Bored by old news repeated…

They are starting to cut the corn. But apart from combine harvesters and tractors, the roads up here on the…

‘What are you going to put on my head to protect me?’ said the man outside the barber’s shop to…

In Competition No. 3157 you were invited to describe a visit to Glastonbury or Glyndebourne in the style of an…

Q. As we attend socially distant events, we expect of our hosts a scrupulous accommodation of our preferences around physical…

The unclued lights were all languages which are written from right to left, entered in that manner in the grid.…

The French Online Open, in which 32 teams competed over a marathon two weeks — seven days round robin and…

Clockwise round the grid from 11 run, in chronological order, the titles (7,7,7,9,2,8,2,10) of five works by an author whose…

The position shown in this week’s main diagram is the starter problem for the Winton British Chess Solving Championship, an…

White to play and mate in three moves. A problem composed by grandmaster Jonathan Levitt (British Chess Magazine, 1995). One…

Jordan Shanks is not your average lefty. This unusual Australian YouTuber, who goes by the name of FriendlyJordies, disdains such…