Unlike most of the mainstream media, and especially the ABC, the Guardian, Fairfax and the other motley groupings of left-wing…

Graft, corruption and thuggery go unchecked

Why are we flogging off our historic military assets?

First, he must re-establish Liberal authority

There’s a new conservative Liberal leader in town. Get behind him

Taylor’s Herculean task

The Taylor cabinet’s choice cuts

Barnaby and I share some grievances

Did the government’s failure to counter the overt antisemitism of the pro-Palestinian crowd lead to the massacre?

Labor fails Australians yet again

Send the protestors to the Domain

The two main harms of government regulation, to be balanced against any benefits, are cost and delay. But there is…

Given the relative sizes of their economies, one might conclude that Russia would quake before the military might of Europe’s…

Munich, Germany The organisers of the Munich security conference weren’t subtle. A large statue of an elephant stood in one…

When Keir Starmer was told his pledge to raise defence spending to 3 per cent of GDP in the next…

It was lucky that the bus was behind schedule – mainly because the driver had stepped out to take his…

BBC Radio 4’s Today programme asks me to champion a favourite book and I choose Muriel Spark’s The Prime of…

Better not tell Ed Miliband, but in spring 2022 his then shadow cabinet colleague, David Lammy, appears to have struck…

The British used to love offal but now we tend to be a bit wimpy about it, unlike the French…

Sergeant Rob Goacher was on patrol recently when the radio crackled with a tip-off. Two men were hare coursing –…

We always try to spend Valentine’s Day weekend in Paris. My wife has held on to a tiny apartment in…

Home Pupils will be allowed to change gender at school, according to guidance issued by Bridget Phillipson, the Education Secretary;…

What a lot of friends Jeffrey Epstein appears to have had! But what did friendship mean to him? Was it…

‘Shape without form, shade without colour. Paralysed force, gesture without motion.’ T.S Eliot’s lines from ‘The Hollow Men’ sum up…

Growing pains Sir: It was reassuring to learn that Wes Streeting is a reader of The Spectator and also shares…

Toxic legacy Analysis by scientists at Porton Down suggested that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny had been killed using epibatidine,…

Is this Britain, 2026, or Spain, 1478? Our era begins to feel horribly like the latter. So, as the flames…

How to report Iran? It is a huge story. Perhaps as many as 30,000 people were recently murdered there by…

So Thursday came and Oxford went to the polls And made its coward vote and the streets resounded To the…

There is an old joke about Nigel Farage, put about by former colleagues. ‘Why is Nigel like a beech tree?……

As I have suggested here before, there are few joys in life equal to that of watching the left fall…

Sunday marks what would have been the 100th birthday of Kenneth Williams. It’s tempting to try to imagine what he…

‘Nostalgia is not a strategy,’ declared Schroders chief executive Richard Oldfield after announcing that the investment firm, descended from a…

Two near-identical middle-aged men, adrift and purposeless, are revitalised when they spontaneously decide to swap lives

From ancient Greek dryads to Tolkien’s elves, fairies have had a fantastical past and seem destined for a fabulous future

In forming a National Government in 1931, MacDonald overlooked the narrow interests of his party – and saved Britain from bankruptcy as a result

But at least there’s now a complete edition of the poems, which feels right for a man who never lost himself, but always remained centred, concentrated and uncorrupted

An academic specialising in Jean-Jacques Rousseau slips back in time to 1777 to accompany his hero on long philosophical rambles around Paris

With spellbinding verve, Tony Abbott, a former prime minister of Australia, celebrates just how old and grand the country’s democracy is

Set in war-torn London, this fantastical novel featuring shape-shifting angels, parallel universes and a homicidal female fascist deserves to be a colossal success

One of the excitements of seeing Ngaire Dawn Fair in the full trilogy of The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll…

Jim Hacker is back in the West End. I’m Sorry, Prime Minister, written by Jonathan Lynn (who co-wrote the original…

The Rest Is History has a new spin-off podcast called The Book Club. If you listen to the former, you’ll…

Even if Schoenberg’s song cycle Pierrot Lunaire is never going to feature on anyone’s Desert Island Discs, it stands as…

How do you follow a great sitcom? Judging from How to Get to Heaven from Belfast and Small Prophets, the…

‘Cultural cringe’, that lovely Aussie coinage, perfectly describes the Roman attitude towards Greece. The curators don’t say so, but it…

John Mulaney appeared to be just another of those identical, slick, clean-cut, young comedians in suits until Covid. But all…

Kleber Mendonca Filho’s The Secret Agent, which is about an academic on the run during Brazil’s brutal military dictatorship, won…

Gianandrea Noseda conducted the London Symphony Orchestra last week in a programme of Stravinsky, Chopin and Borodin. The Stravinsky was…

If you lived anywhere near Kilburn half a decade ago, you might have noticed the messages one of our neighbours…

In an exciting breakthrough in academic hygiene, the University of Adelaide is to install ‘squat toilets’ in new buildings. This…

I have finally snapped! I have become so annoyed by lying halfwits misusing the word ‘genocide’ that I am going…

The British hold a steamed pudding close to their hearts. Like a culinary hot-water bottle, it may not be terribly…

Wales rugby coach Steve Tandy must have the most difficult job in sport, apart maybe from Jim Ratcliffe’s public–relations whizz.…

You can always judge a country by the reception you get at passport control. America is aggressive. Don’t even think…

Hope Not Hate is up to its usual tricks in the Denton and Gorton by-election, keeping Britain safe from fascists.…

Competition 3437 invited you to submit a passage or poem incorporating the line ‘Why, what’s the matter, That you have…

Q. Our daughter is very keen on a young man from her office whom she has brought home to stay…

Corenucopia by Clare Smyth is in Belgravia, amid a line of interior-design shops, and it is prettier than all of…

Assuming it was full of junk, I tried to pull the trunk out of the way but I couldn’t move…

Time is running out. We all have to meet our maker at some point, and although I’m fit as a…