One hundred and five years ago today, our boys stormed the barren shores of Anzac Cove. For all the Victoria…

After the cancellation of the Tokyo Olympics, the postponement of the 2020 Tour de France couldn’t have taken many people…

Chocolate eggs still. Tick. Roast dinner still. Tick. Church still. Tick. But as if in a strange, distorting dream. This…

Pandemic prose and poetry

Pandemic escapes from Pandora’s box

Leftists are tailoring Covid-19 to their own agendas

Those High Court appointments were dreadful, by George!

Sex discrimination takes concrete form in Melbourne

Will the Covid-19 shutdown cut CO2 in the air?

Xi Jinping cannot evade responsibility for his deadly global disaster

How Graham Greene earned The Spectator a place in cinematic history

Empathy and kindness in these difficult times come more easily to some than others, but I’m trying. I had heart…

A short story

Salman Rushdie on writing in the Age of Anything-Can-Happen

The Spectator’s love affair with satire

Virus deaths may not be the greatest challenge ahead

Writing for ‘Mr Spectator’

200 years of Spectator adverts show how little changes

Could the Covid crisis be an economic opportunity for Brexit Britain?

By the people stuck with them

Sometimes The Spectator goes to press very shortly after election results have been announced. In those instances, Morten Morland, our…

The contenders in the race to cure Covid

When should the lockdown be lifted?

Viewers of the BBC News channel, now that Zoom shows talking heads in their own homes, want before anything to…

Oldies and goodies Captain Tom Moore, 99, raised more than £26 million by walking 100 laps of the garden of…

The closing of churches Sir: Stephen Hazell-Smith is quite right in writing that churches should re-open (Letters, 18 April), however…

The Spectator’s 10,000th hebdomaversary (hebdomas, ‘a group of seven’: a weekly cannot have an anniversary) will surely be celebrated with…

Our Plan is entirely new, comprising – 1. The whole News of the Week: selected, sifted, condensed and arranged as…

Home The number of people with the coronavirus disease Covid-19 who had died in hospitals by the beginning of the…

The vocabulary of Brexit has passed into oblivion. Now there’s fresh work to be done. We all know about ‘flattening…

Last week, a friend quoted a two-year-old email of mine: ‘I’m starting to root for a plague or world war…

Keep your eye on GlaxoSmithKline. The UK-based multinational drug-maker represents the future, both as a mass-producer of the vaccines that…

Although I once edited this paper, and have written for it for almost 40 years, I did not know that…

It all started on the day after the Brexit referendum. People who do not get the result they voted for…

I had thought that actually getting the coronavirus would bring clarity — that there would be some satisfaction in meeting…

It’s one way to keep in touch with people. Each morning, somewhere between the first coffee of the day and…

Fear is the politician’s friend. When terror grips the public, an opportunity arises for those in power to step forward…

The problem with face masks is cutting an opening of the right size to accommodate a cigarette, without the hole…

Fairy stories were not originally aimed at children, and we do not know what the first audience responses were; but…

Putin’s corrupt cronies may change, but the paranoid world view they all share remains the same, says Owen Matthews

Seafaring and the rule of the waves — as the song would have it — was an integral part of…

In Henry and June, Anaïs Nin asks her cousin Eduardo if one can be freed of a desire by experiencing…

Between October 2013 and January 2014, five teenaged boys from Brighton, three of them brothers from a family called Deghayes,…

‘The world,’ Mrs Thatcher was reported to have said, ‘is full of ships.’ With this comment, unlike in many other…

With its distinctive hilly site and unusually coherent architecture (significantly, most of it domestic rather than civic), Hampstead has always…

The name Arthur Jeffress may not conjure many associations for those not familiar with the London post-war art world, but…

Alexandra Shulman says that she had ‘no desire to write an autobiography’ — so instead she has written about her…

He grew up in Eastwood on Sydney’s Northern Line. Geoffrey Robertson’s brilliant career got off to a flying start with…

No surprise: the greatest musical experience of my life was Parsifal at Bayreuth in 1962. I thought at the time…

Not looking great, is it? Until we all get jabbed, theatres may have to stay closed. And even the optimists…

The Spectator arts and books pages have spent 10,000 issues identifying the dominant cultural phenomena of the day and being difficult about them, says Richard Bratby

You have to admire the spirit of the organisers of last weekend’s One World: Together at Home concert. To put…

Martin Gayford talks to David Hockney about life in the Norman countryside under quarantine, how the iPad is better than paint and brush, and why he is not a communist

As all other publications are offering guides saying what to watch from home during this pandemic — ‘the 50 best…

‘To be recognised and accepted by a peregrine,’ wrote J.A. Baker in 1967, ‘you must wear the same clothes, travel…

From Enoch Powell to Danny La Rue: Hilary Spurling looks back on her time in charge of the arts and books pages in the 1960s

There were plenty of TV shows around this week designed to cheer us up. Sky Atlantic’s Gangs of London, however,…

Q. Several of my friends and family members have moved on from dark thoughts concerning 9/11, the Kennedy assassination and…

As Cole Porter might have said, only second-rate people go on and on about their inner lives. Self-analysis, according to…

In 2001, aged 44, I was hired to write a weekly column for this august paper, and for the first…

The man was unloading cycles from the boot of his car just as I was about to take the turning…

The newspapers are full of stories about how small groups of engineers from Formula 1 teams have been able to…

Unclued lights are anagrams of the names of countries (anagram of Cretinous): UNHOARDS (1A: anagram of Honduras), ATWAIN (5: Taiwan),…

Thirteen unclued lights are of a kind (all singular, not plural) and confirmed in Chambers. 17 across gives the puzzle’s…

In Competition No. 3145, to mark the 10,000th issue of The Spectator, you were invited to submit clerihews (two couplets,…

Black to play. Sjugirov–Carlsen, Chess24 Banter Blitz Semi Final. In this wild position, Carlsen’s next move put the result beyond…

‘I’m just completely collapsing in these games… unbelievable.’ World Champion Magnus Carlsen didn’t hide his anguish after losing a game…

In July, in its ‘Guess the definition’ slot, next to the day’s birthdays, the Daily Mail asked its readers to…

I’m more impressed than most that The Spectator has racked up 10,000 issues, because I used to be a magazine…

The Alt Invitational is the online tournament that is attracting some of the best players on earth. When the whole…

A fictional Spectator restaurant critic called Forbes McAllister appeared on Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge. He was played…