‘The number of climate deniers in Australia is more than double the global average, new survey finds,’ read the headline…

In the leftist jihad against laughter, an important point has been overlooked. For as long as anyone can remember, the…

Is it racism or the obsession with racism that is costing indigenous lives? Where’s the outrage regarding the high death…

Like most Speccie readers I am anxious to give public vent to my outrage at police brutality, institutional racism and…

In a truly excellent article in the Australian, Stephen Loosley reminded us – in my case rather appropriately – of…

Albion is toast Australia: will you take me? You’ve always been high on my list of escape destinations when everything…

The legal, strategic and moral cases against the two-state solution

Ten reasons why Captain Cook was awesome

Or the Darwin Awards by Proxy

Big Pharma laughs all the way to the bank

Or only those blessed by identity politics?

The National Cabinet is a dismal failure

Police were no match for the Black Lives Matter mob that pulled down a statue of Edward Colston last week…

The lockdown is widening the gap between rich and poor pupils

No one has stood up for the lawnless in lockdown

China is testing the limits of India – and the world

The success of British Indians is troubling for some. Why?

The pitfalls of wrongthink

Covid-19 may have changed the way we work for ever

Home Britain went into a frenzy of iconoclasm. The statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square was hidden by the…

The discovery in Britain that a £5 steroid, dexamethasone, can be effective in treating Covid marks a potential breakthrough in…

Reality seems thinner these days. As I walk along the high street, passers-by drift apart as though afraid of crossing…

Made to measure The government started reviewing whether we should stay two metres apart while social distancing or whether one…

The actor John Cleese has been wondering if we should destroy Greek statues because Greeks believed ‘a cultured society was…

Hong Kong’s success Sir: Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson are right to compare the UK’s Covid-19 response with Hong Kong’s…

Why is it wrong, some ask, for senior British businessmen, former civil servants etc to work for Huawei UK? After…

I don’t know what’s happened to our football hooligans. The modern malaise, I suppose. A gradual descent into ineffectuality. Back…

‘Saturday the 13th … everyone’s out to go up town to do Antifa. Loads of West Ham, Millwall, Chelsea, Arsenal,…

Trade talks between the UK and the EU are in a better place than they have been at any point…

Do stock markets foretell the future while politicians fudge and economists mumble? No: share prices collectively have a life of…

During these months of inertia, I confess to having on occasion made illicit trips to churches in the English countryside.…

These days it is as hard to imagine Sichuanese food without chillies as it is to imagine Italian food without…

The spectacular extravagance of the VIP nightclub ‘experience’ could be the last bonfire of the vanities, says Lynn Barber

Formula One motor racing is the perennial, worldwide contest that most reliably gratifies hero-worshipping, power-worshipping, money-worshipping, technology-worshipping ghouls, and some…

Publishers everywhere are looking for the new Sally Rooney, which is odd since as far as I know the old…

Matthew Kneale is much drawn to people of the past. In his award-winning English Passengers, he captured the sensibilities of…

We live in an urban world. It’s a statistical fact. The great outdoors for most of us is a thing…

A guide to reading in lockdown. My involvement with crime and mystery fiction started when I was four. The first…

When Queen Alexandra chose her ladies in waiting she prudently surrounded herself with elderly and plainish ones, who did not…

In a futile attempt at participating in the current cultural revolution, I tried to suffer ‘harm and offence’ from an…

If you study History of Art, people generally assume you’re a nice, conscientious, plummy-voiced girl. Sometimes, people are right. It…

The statue-topplers reveal a Eurocentric view of the world that ignores the achievements of black and Asian luminaries, says Tanjil Rashid

In 1992 Prince released a single called ‘My Name Is Prince’. On first hearing it seemed appropriately regal. Cocky, even.…

Resistance stars Jesse Eisenberg and tells the true story of how mime artist Marcel Marceau helped orphaned Jewish children to…

This week, BBC1 brought us a three-part dramatisation of an ‘unprecedented crisis’ in recent British life. Among other things, it…

The longest interval in theatre history continues. Last week the National Theatre livestreamed a 2018 version of The Madness of…

It was the fourth time, or maybe the fifth, that I found myself reaching for the tissues that I began…

90 Days in lockdown – a retrospective   Day 1 – you configure your bathroom into a replica of your…

Oh, to be in America, where cultural decay and self-destruction compete equally with hyper-feminist and anti-racist agendas. Gone with the…

Opting out of organ donation was one of the hardest things I’ve done in a while. I don’t mean the…

Q. I know it is rude to ask, when invited to a dinner party, ‘who else is coming?’ I assumed,…

Back in April, The Spectator ran a feature in which the partners of regular contributors wrote about what it was…

Drive-through restaurants were invented so Americans could spend more time in their cars. I don’t blame them. American cars are…

Gaslight has been a useful word meaning ‘to manipulate a person by psychological means into questioning his or her own…

When I first heard Abba’s magnificent 1982 swansong ‘The Day Before You Came’, I’d never come across the Americanised use…

I took a table on the terrace of the reopened bar and ordered une pression from the waitress. ‘Back to…

In Competition No. 3153 you were invited to recruit a well-known children’s writer to explain Covid-19 to their young audience.…

As statues are scrutinised, the tensions that existed within historical figures are thrown into relief. You can admire Churchill’s leadership…

I am so useless in defence it’s embarrassing. My partners all say the same thing: slow down and think. I…

The seventeen entries with definition-only clues are to be treated according to a symmetrically disposed theme which has to be…

White to play. Tolush–Aronson, Moscow 1957. Strangely, this quick win was once wrongly attributed to Alekhine. How did White exploit…

22D was TABLEWARE, and the quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson reads: ‘The louder he talked of his honour, the faster…