In a rare outbreak of common sense, one of the world’s international sporting bodies this week decided to ban ‘transgender…

The past two years have seen the trust many Australians’ have in their institutions brought to an all-time low through…

Everything Joe touches turns to...

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Aussie battlers battle with climate policies

Looks like they really are ‘all in this together’

... and lost

Capitol riot hearings are fatally flawed

Churchill in a tee-shirt

Oh how I loved my old Mini

Economic sanctions have never worked

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Israel and Turkey’s tentative alliance

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Why Ryanair is Europe’s best airline

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Home A rail strike on three alternate days, bringing the system to a standstill for a week, was organised by…

In 1977, when I set up the South Bank Show for ITV, I wanted Paul McCartney to be on the…

A little over a year ago, The Spectator printed a cover story about the risk of inflation. Britain, we argued,…

Here I go again, in my occasional role as your intrepid transport correspondent. Last week I reported on airport chaos,…

If anyone was suitable to be the Prime Minister’s adviser on ministerial interests, it was Lord Geidt. Self-effacing, professional, unself-righteous…

Check out these hyperventilating headlines from last week: ‘What the Fed’s largest interest rate hike in decades means for you’…

There’s a left-wing internet advocacy group called 38 Degrees which suggests to its followers that all they have to do…

In this most holy month of Pride I have been making my observances by thinking about shame. After all, shame…

One of the favourite phrases of British political commentators is ‘oppositions don’t win elections, governments lose them’. As with all…

One is not usually surprised by opinions volunteered to parliamentary hopefuls by voters on whose doors the candidate has knocked;…

No one had prepared the Allied soldiers, as they began their invasion of the Reich early in 1945, for what…

If MI5 had a Cold War file on you – paper in those happy days – it didn’t mean they…

Geography, climate, economics and nationalism are often seen as decisive forces in history. In this dynamic, original and convincing book…

‘To talk about Crabbe is to talk about England,’ E.M. Forster declared in a radio broadcast in May 1941, but…

Margo Jefferson’s Constructing a Nervous System compresses memoir and cultural criticism into one slim, explosive volume, and in doing so…

Has there been a better novel this century than Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation? There might not…

After 13 years in parliament, rising star Chris Patten had the bad luck to be one of the few Tory…

With the technologies at our disposal, we can in fact now know what it’s like to be a bat, says Caspar Henderson

June 16 was Bloomsday, the day we celebrate James Joyce’s Ulysses, and it was a special Bloomsday because 2022 is…

The Old Vic’s new show, Jitney, has a mystifying YouTube advert which gives no information about the play or the…

Nothing new under the sun. Or at least it feels that way these days, doesn’t it? The movies are TV…

Elvis is Baz Luhrmann’s biopic of Elvis Presley and it’s cradle to grave but told at such a gallop you’ll…

Sir David Pountney, it appears, has been to Prague. He’s booked himself a mini-break, he’s EasyJetted out, and after (one…

Tanjil Rashid on the polymathic Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray, who spearheaded a new school of Indian cinema

Of all the photos of artists in the studio, the one of Glyn Philpot being served a martini by his…

I don’t think it’s my imagination: it really is getting harder and harder to find anything worth watching on TV.…

It’s too soon to say whether President Biden’s response to the carnage in Tulsa, Uvalde and Buffalo (‘For God’s sake,…

We live in a world that seems to have largely abandoned punctuation – those small marks between words that help…

In a disintegrating country, stuck for the moment with a Prime Minister who can’t see the difference between a proliferation…

As the father of four children who will be entering higher education in the next few years, I’m worried that…

Q. My girlfriend and I have started using a personal trainer for some joint sessions at our local gym; the…

One could get used to this. I come from seafaring stock, albeit distant. ‘Anderson’ suggests Viking antecedents, especially as my…

The Department for Transport recently ended a £1,500 subsidy towards the price of new, lower-priced electric cars one year earlier…

At a bridge tournament about 15 years ago, I started chatting to a friendly, eccentric woman in her mid-sixties, wearing…

Nothing in the beach hotel was made of plastic. It wasn’t advertised as being a plastic-free hotel, but we noticed…

‘Do you care about the woodland? Do you care about the wildlife?’ shouted the bearded Woodland Trust volunteer from his…

Lord Geidt said in his resignationletter that he had been put in an odious position. He meant it was hateful,though…

It’s nice to be back on the old continent again, especially after getting within a couple of hundred yards of…

Unclued lights were associated with JUBILEE: years (CALENDAR, SCHOOL, FINANCIAL), clips (CROCODILE,PAPER, TIE) and London underground lines (CENTRAL, CIRCLE, NORTHERN).…

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White to play. Rezasade-Movsesian, Bundesliga 2022. White was an underdog in this game, but found a subtle winning idea. What…

In Competition No. 3254, you were invited to tweak a well-known book title to reflect the straitened times we live…

The Candidates tournament is underway in Madrid, where eight of the world’s best players vie for the right to challenge…