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The Libs let us down

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The SAS is under fire, not from terrorists or insurgents, but from ill-informed commentators and our state broadcaster. Our Special…

Afriend of mine was once delighted to get a job at the Radio Times, where he ‘corrected’ a golfing picture…

Butlin’s is no longer a holiday ‘camp’. The company has evolved from its postwar heyday and now describes its properties…

My first job was working behind the bar of the Richmond Conservative Club in North Yorkshire. The place was as…

My friend Ruby recently started a TikTok channel called ‘Too Long Didn’t Read’. With boundless enthusiasm and a colourful wardrobe,…

While we were inspecting HMP Elmley on the Isle of Sheppey, a commotion broke out on one of the wings.…

Keir Starmer looked blank. The shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, seemed confused. Only the old Stalinist Seumas Milne seemed really to…

The problem with Keir Starmer’s approach to Brexit is that it fundamentally misunderstands the country. It isn’t that the Leave-voting…

There stands the bride. Perfect hair, perfect nails, perfect fake tan. She may not have slept the previous night or…

Globalisation, liberalism, neoliberalism, managerialism, internationalism, multiculturalism, human resources, wokeness, identity politics, progressivism, EDI, DEI, corporatism, proceduralism, elitism, environmentalism, transnationalism: there…

Tall order Two naval cadets were killed and 19 injured when a Mexican sail training vessel, the Cuauhtemoc, crashed into…

The Sunday Times rich list would have excited the male citizens over the age of 18 who determined state policy…

I never thought I would read a headline like ‘Kirstie Allsopp’s husband enables upskirting’. Regrettably, this type of nonsense has…

Home Sir Keir Starmer was joined by EU representatives in London to celebrate new agreements with the bloc. EU access…

As one might expect from a 103-year-old organisation, the BBC has a very high opinion of itself. Outside Broadcasting House…

Reeves’s road sense Sir: Is it stubbornness, denial, inexperience or some other agenda that prevents Rachel Reeves changing course in…

Keir Starmer’s appearance before Labour MPs on Monday was a crowded affair. Such was the level of excitement that organisers…

In travelling to Bishkek, I was heading for the hills. I had not expected to be marking the 80th anniversary…

It is said that since Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office, it is once again possible to use the…

In the space of about one month a further 9 per cent of the electorate has decided that the views…

So far, so routine. Labour wants to update and if possible upgrade the United Kingdom’s arrangements with our immediate neighbour…

I know an astonishing 89-year-old who climbs mountains, uses a chainsaw and has the muscular, vice-like grip of a gym-built…

Here’s a takeover tale that captures the zeitgeist. It involves two FTSE 250 companies and some deep-pocketed US investors –…

Weiss’s meandering, 1,000-page magnum opus may be the least entertaining fiction ever written – though no one reads such a work for laughs

His willingness to stand firm and speak truth to power is an important lesson for us all, says Joanne Paul – who draws many parallels between Henry VIII and today’s autocrats

The American author (of mostly unreadable books) was revered in 1920s Paris and became an international celebrity – though no one was quite sure why

Anthony Cheetham has been responsible for many bestsellers, but this guarded account of his career in the book trade won’t be one of them

Gripped by jealousy and ‘a primordial savagery’, Ernaux fantasises about committing ‘crimes of passion’ when her husband leaves her for another woman

Karen R. Jones’s surprising choice of ten creatures to represent Britain makes for a truly wonderful book – erudite and fun

Dan Richards explores the lives of the nurses, train drivers, rescue crews and factory workers who are up and about while the rest of us are sleeping

The German writer recalls her grandmother’s collection of voodoo dolls and her father’s surreal invention of a stunted lodger living in the suspended ceiling

How does the metamorphosis of lumbering, engineless vessel – from freight container to troop-carrier to prison, hostel and rusting hulk – reflect today’s economic climate?

Adina – born prematurely in Pennsylvania as Voyager 1 probe is launched – believes she’s an extraterrestrial sent from Planet Cricket Rice to report on human life

A serial killer vows retribution for the death of a friend framed for child pornography offences in King’s latest cliffhanger

The music journalist describes a career spent interviewing the likes of Sting, Tom Jones, Brian May and Roger Taylor – each time feeling ‘something inside me ignite’

Who would have thought? The arena concert version of Les Miserables, Claude Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil’s sung-through extravaganza is…

I have a friend who insists that had Status Quo hailed from Düsseldorf rather than Catford, they would nowadays be…

Much of Venice’s Giardini this year was as boarded up as a British high street. The Israeli pavilion was empty,…

The Four Seasons is one of those shows you notice in the ‘Top TV Programmes on Netflix’ section, see it’s…

Christopher Wheeldon must be one of the most steadily productive and widely popular figures in today’s dance world, but I’m…

AI is coming for everyone’s jobs, but especially mine. There is absolutely no good reason for The Spectator to keep…

Richard Bean appears to be Hampstead Theatre’s in-house dramatist, and his new effort, House of Games, is based on a…

British opera was born with Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, and then vanished for two-and-a-half centuries, apparently. Between the first performance…

You have to time your arrival at cinemas carefully if you want to avoid the high-volume, rapid-fire edits of trailers…

In the 1980s there was a popular watering hole on Sydney’s Lower North Shore called The Plum. Its popularity with…

I have wanted to write a column on ‘common sense’ for a long time – but it is a surprisingly…

‘Farage is no leader,’ said Rupert Lowe MP. ‘He is a coward and a viper.’ Cedric Hardwicke immediately came to…

Without wanting to sound like a refugee from the 1950s, it was a shame that last week’s Cup Final was…

After a week in which Israel triumphed at the Eurovision Song Contest with second place – western Europe is for…

Two years ago, at five to eight in the evening of Monday 22 May 2023, I ran into the department…

Q. I was caught off guard last week by a busybody mother at my son’s boarding school asking us to…

Caroline has gone on strike. At least, as far as cooking is concerned. Her case for downing spatulas is that…

The builder boyfriend returned from a trip to London to inform me he was being done for speeding at 32mph,…

Nearly always a thriller, Newbury’s Lockinge Stakes, instituted in 1958 and a Group 1 race since 1995, is an ever-welcome signpost…

Competition 3400 invited you to write poems to mark YouTube’s 20th birthday. This challenge drew a large, accomplished entry which…