The appeasement of totalitarian regimes is never a brilliant idea, as history has reminded us on many occasions, including, of…

I am thrilled about the government’s plan for an economic roundtable to be held in Canberra from 19 to 21…

Albo’s Future has no future

Expect inflation and interest rates to rise

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Virtue-signalling with visas reaps violence

...not to parry him

Neither neocon nor isolationist

The over-production of the useless elites

The planet continues to cool

Albanese brings in Gazans where terrorist clearance impossible

Tokyo Could Japan be the world’s first -algocracy – government by algorithm? The concept has been flirted with elsewhere: in…

It’s more than two months since I returned from Dublin, and at last the hangover is beginning to fade. I…

The journalist Jonathan Miller, a cherished Spectator contributor, died last week at his home in Occitanie, France. Below is an…

Controlled immigration was once a left-wing cause. It was a basic tenet of trade unionism – not to mention economics…

In February 2020, a few weeks before Britain was thrown into lockdown, Sajid Javid resigned as chancellor of the exchequer…

Donald Trump this week boosted Ukraine’s air defences with new Patriot batteries, threatened Vladimir Putin with sanctions if he does…

Andy Warhol believed that the greatness of America lay in how the richest consumers bought exactly the same things as…

William Shakespeare was the first to feature, in 1970. Alan Turing was most recent, in 2021. But the Bank of…

Grand unions The BMA – or British Medical Association – called a five-day strike of junior doctors (which it now…

I’m a Londoner born and bred, and I love this city, even though it’s slowly being destroyed by the insidious…

Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, agreed with President Emmanuel Macron of France that Britain could return perhaps 50…

The United Kingdom’s immigration system is broken. Tens of thousands have entered the country who should not, and the bureaucracy…

The BBC chef Gregg Wallace has been sacked for his objectionable behaviour over many years, but has blamed the BBC…

Supreme idea Sir: My colleague Fergus Butler-Gallie is right about the deficiencies of the Church of England’s system for filling…

The nation owes the former Labour leader Neil Kinnock an eternal debt for losing the 1992 general election when he…

Every week brings a new revelation about the Zizians: the craziest, saddest cult in recent American history. Eight deaths have…

After one of Jeffrey Archer’s minor tangles with the absolute truth, his friend the late Barry Humphries remarked: ‘We all…

‘Smash the gangs’ is the fascinating slogan that Keir Starmer’s government has settled on for tackling illegal migration. What is…

I suppose this magazine is probably not the best forum to launch a movement to sweep away the British middle…

Labour ministers face a range of terrible political choices, but when the cabinet met for an away day at Chequers…

This column comes to you from Auckland Castle, former palace and hunting lodge of the Prince Bishops of Durham. We,…

Through bribery and ruthless exploitation, the unapologetic racist worked to unite Africa under British rule – with consequences that still haunt us today

The friend of Patrick White and Christina Stead abruptly withdrew her fifth novel in 1971 and gave up writing altogether – only now to be hailed as ‘one of the great novelists of Sydney’

After receiving a bouncer from Ray Lindwall that left him temporarily unconscious, England’s fast bowler Frank Tyson swore vengeance and annihilated the Australian team – to retain the Ashes

Smouldering resentment flares to self-destructive violence in a remote village as the Cultural Revolution serves as a pretext for vengeance and exploitation

Whether sci-fi vignettes, thought experiments, parables or fables, these tales of parallel universes and artificial realities are suffused by a pervasive melancholy

Theo Clarke gathers heartbreaking instances of infant mortality, medical malpractice and severe post-partum trauma in the nation’s maternity wards

Moving anticlockwise through the coil of arrondissements, Chris Newens samples the range of cuisines on offer and examines their histories

Returning from Hollywood to Austria to care for his mother in 1939, the film director G.W. Pabst is seduced by ‘good scripts, high budgets and the best actors’ into working for Dr Goebbels

Two university contemporaries with next to nothing in common find themselves working together to disrupt electricity generation with a scheme to turn tidal power into light

The Tiger Woods industry continues to flourish, but the man himself never now gives interviews, so any insights into his feelings are second-hand at best

The story of a doomed love affair in turn-of-the-millennium Croatia aches from the start. But more haunting still are the missed opportunities that result from it

The other night we watched one of the greatest American films ever made. Network was directed by Sidney Lumet to…

On the continent this summer, new operas from two of Britain’s most important composers. Oliver Leith likes guns, animals and…

The memory of Nye Bevan is being honoured at the National Theatre. Having made his name as a Marxist firebrand,…

One of the great things about getting older is no longer feeling under any obligation to try to like stuff…

Grade: A– There’s a classic trajectory for British composers: a five-decade evolution from Angry Young Man to Pillar of the…

Imagine a London of the distant future. A mudlark combs through the Thames foreshore, looking for relics of the past.…

What to make of the Nature Theater of Oklahoma, which this week made its British debut at the Queen Elizabeth…

Like spider plants and exotic cats, certain artists are best suited to the great indoors. Lana Del Rey, for instance,…

In the brief lull between last week’s summer blockbuster (Superman) and next week’s (Fantastic Four) you may wish to catch…

Carel Weight, the inimitable painter of London life and landscape, was my godfather. I remember a clownish-faced elderly man with…

To much leftist adulation, the eagerly awaited findings of Victoria’s Yoorrook Commission into ‘historic and ongoing systemic injustices’ against Aborigines…

Social psychologist Irving Janis coined the term ‘groupthink’ in 1971. So, let’s see if I can break that down, and…

I feel for Locatelli, the new Italian restaurant inside the National Gallery, whose opening coincides with the 200th anniversary of…

Late spring. Sitting in the armchair in the living room, I was chilly and disconsolate. My middle daughter was seven-and-a-half…

About 15 years ago, I tried to interest my literary agent in a state-of-the-nation novel set in 21st-century London. My…

Q. When I have an arrangement to meet a certain friend for lunch she sometimes turns up with a streaming…

The tub-thumping atmosphere in the Long Room at Lord’s was so raucous late on Monday afternoon as India and England…

The guest who thought our farm was in the town centre was very cross indeed. She got out of her…

‘Am I housebound?’ asked my husband as I was discussing with him the complicated history of the name for his…

The only political party with a serious chance of winning office I will ever vote for again is the one…

For Competition 3408 you were invited to write poems about heatwaves. This comp was inspired by the weather! In the…