Long-term readers of this magazine are familiar with a strange tingling sensation that frequently runs up and down the spine,…

During my 21 years in the federal parliament, I never got a satisfactory answer to the question why one side…

B1 is drowning, not waving

We don’t have to like Trump, we just have to earn his respect

We need the Coalition to fight, fight, fight

Dutton must engage in the battle of ideas

O, Canada!

Now the enemy is ‘coexistence’

We are in dire economic straits

I’ve read the science so that you don’t have to

The plan to defeat the communists

In the famous ‘Rainbow Portrait’ of Elizabeth I her gown is embroidered with eyes and ears, a reference to her…

For several years, a debate has raged (mainly on Twitter, now X) over whether animal fats are actually better for…

The theory of evolution is dominated by the utilitarian logic of natural selection: adapt or die, survival of the fittest.…

Even if you’ve never heard of Michael Mann, you will have felt his baleful influence on your energy bills. He…

Washington D.C. For Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, it’s a case of today Ukraine, tomorrow the world. In their much-hyped…

Dominic Cummings may have left Whitehall but his spirit lives on. Pat McFadden, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster,…

Next Wednesday Rachel Reeves will stand up in the House of Commons to deliver what she is calling her ‘spring…

Last Sunday the Vatican released the first photograph of Pope Francis since his ordeal began. He was wearing a stole…

Next week marks the 400th anniversary of the accession to the throne of Charles I. This moment began what was…

Professional Englishmen and women – doctors, accountants and even journalists – could once afford to drink first-growth claret like Château…

A hadith attributed to Muhammad said that there would be 73 sects of Islam (of which only one would reach…

Two months into President Donald Trump’s second term, the habitual liberal hysteria about his rollercoaster presidential style is reaching shrieking…

Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, entertained 29 other national leaders online to seek a way of guaranteeing the…

Kemi Badenoch secured the Conservative leadership on the basis that she would confront her party and the country with uncomfortable…

Blood on our hands Sir: Paul Wood asks if anyone will be punished for the bloodbath in Syria (‘Massacre of…

I don’t intend to start a feud. Most of Sean Thomas’s essay on The Spectator’s website last week, titled ‘Good…

It is difficult to gauge who is the more discombobulated by the Labour government’s recent Damascene conversion to a political…

In elections, as in wine, lesser years can still produce good vintages. Tony Blair and Gordon Brown first won their…

In the incessant conflicts of life and politics, people who know what they want tend to win. That is why…

Almost every nation has a national poet. The Russians have Pushkin. The Persians have Ferdowsi. The Albanians have Gjergj Fishta.…

‘You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs’ is a maxim attributed to leaders on both sides of the French…

Residents of a sedate apartment block in Brussels react in very different ways to the Nazi invasion of Belgium in 1940

Tasteless, adulterated, mass-produced pap bears no resemblance to an independent baker’s slow-fermented loaves, full of flavour, texture and nutrients

Though extraordinarily lucky to have escaped massacre in Rwanda in 1994, all Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse now seems to focus on is finding photographic evidence of her rescue

After 30 years as a boxing correspondent, Donald McRae has seen enough, angered by the lies, dope, inadequate safety protocols and lure of Saudi sponsorship

Caroline Elton describes the problems of looking after her profoundly autistic brother, and admits to childhood feelings of fear, guilt and resentment

Anne Sebba explores the ethical questions that haunted members of the female orchestra obliged to play marching music to hurry fellow inmates to and from forced labour

Henri Matisse’s wife and longstanding model was understandably enraged when the artist, in later life, preferred his much younger Russian mistress as a sitter

Local communities who tend the graves of enemy casualties of the two world wars do more for reconciliation than most politicians and diplomats, says Tim Grady

The genie is only half out of the bottle, says Richard Susskind, but we should be in a state of high alert – and anyone who thinks otherwise is ‘plain daft’

Had it not been for the persistence of Mrs Crippen’s friends at the Ladies’ Music Hall Guild, the notorious murderer might have escaped scot free

Having a sportswriter father is no excuse. The young man was tall, long fair-haired with a hat. ‘What do you…

I have a confession to make, which may upset many readers. Having only a passing acquaintance with his books, I’ve…

Touring’s not what it used to be. When I were a lad, even big bands would do 30 or 40…

Disney’s new Snow White is a live-action remake of the beloved 1937 classic that was cinema’s first full-length animated feature…

Cher Horowitz, the central character in Clueless, is one of the most irritating heroines in the history of movies. She’s…

Optimists believe that the tide of ‘wokeness’ is now ebbing. If so, the message has not yet reached Cambridge, whose…

Think of a Mexican painting, and chances are you’ll conjure up an image of an eyebrow-knitted Frida Kahlo, or a…

Last week, Barbara Hannigan conducted the London Symphony Orchestra in Haydn, Roussel, Ravel and Britten, though to be honest she…

Bradley Walsh: Egypt’s Cosmic Code may sound like a pitch by Alan Partridge – but, impressively, the programme itself manages…

In a world of pointless questions like ‘Are tariffs good for me?’ and ‘Why does Kevin Rudd have a beard?’,…

I am frequently asked about the expressions ‘First Nations’ / ‘First Peoples’. And Speccie reader Kay has raised it again,…

‘Dampfschifffahrt!’ shouted my husband as though it were funny. I had been saying how strange it was that explosive gas…

Dante’s Beach, Ravenna I have just refused to accept the local equivalent of an Oscar, which was to have been…

My American guest kept telling me he was going to call an Uber and I could not persuade him that…

Picture the scene. The year is 2004. The setting, a British field or maybe a beach. There is a small…

One of the early decisions David Zaslav made after becoming the CEO of Warner Bros Discovery in 2022 was to…

I follow the YouTube postings of a maverick young economist called Gary Stevenson, author of The Trading Game. Whatever you…

Q. I’m quite a good friend of a member of our royal family – going back to our shared school…

For more than 50 years I have assumed that any sensible person will be a right-winger, even if not all…