These are exciting times to be a reader of, and subscriber to, The Spectator Australia, not to mention being its…

Bullocks As you drive into our nation’s beef capital you are greeted by a statue of a bull emblazoned with…

There’s only one deity permitted in China

My time in hotel quarantine

Our authorities are undermining public confidence

Kirkup’s ignorance will cost conservatives dearly

We urgently need to preserve our right to free speech

Trans athletes have un-levelled the playing field for women and girls

Close encounters of the sordid kind

Why did we opt for the communist model?

 Austin ‘If I owned Texas and Hell,’ General Phil Sheridan famously said, ‘I would rent out Texas and live in…

Why do some people’s symptoms not go away?

The economy is tanking but stock markets are soaring. Why?

The sinister side to France’s mistrust of the ‘Anglo-Saxons’

Why is the former PM driving Covid policy?

The art of the public information ad

When will it be legal to hug my girlfriend again?

Sturgeon is fighting for her political future

The Holyrood elections are looming. But infighting dominates No. 10

The latest fight between the EU and the UK isn’t over vaccines, but molluscs. Brussels won’t grant Britain a special…

At a time when resources are scarce, the Merseyside Constabulary must have thought long and hard about its recent advertising…

Nothing to fear Sir: Many of us await the day when we can travel abroad for much-anticipated holidays — but…

State of the art Graffiti on Edvard Munch’s first version of ‘The Scream’ was revealed to be the work of…

The government has plans to fund a new research agency to back ‘cutting-edge science’. Ptolemaios (Ptolemy) I (367-282 bc), the…

Spring in Somerset — again. If someone had told me last February that I’d spend seven of the next 12…

Home The much-anticipated decriminalisation of two consenting people meeting over coffee on a park bench was declared for 8 March…

There is a ‘pervasive presence of Chinese military-linked conglomerates and universities in the sponsorship of high-technology research centres in many…

Back in November, when Downing Street’s pandemic responses looked daily more incompetent, the announcement of a ban on sales of…

It’s the bane of many an author these days: those newspaper-filler Q&As. One I recently filled out included the question:…

‘Get Brexit done, then Arpa’ read Dominic Cummings’s WhatsApp profile. Arpa was what’s now the American Defense Advanced Research Projects…

The Liberal Democrat party’s foreign affairs spokesgoblin, Velma from Scooby-Doo — or ‘Layla Moran’ as she is known to close…

‘Alas’ is a word used many times by Boris Johnson during the pandemic. It is how he prefaces announcements that…

Somehow, American culture has got itself into a terrible mess of division and acrimony: elites against mainstream, progressives against conservatives,…

Lauren Oyler is viral and vicious. A critic with a reputation for pulling no punches, she is known for delivering…

In France, even the car horns yelled about Algeria. A five-beat klaxon blast — three short, two long — signalled…

In the spring of 1945 three men pooled their resources in order to buy Long Crichel House, a former rectory…

Wheat flour, and the bread made from it, has been a recurring cause of concern for the British for centuries,…

A while ago, Samantha Markle declared that her forthcoming book would be about ‘the beautiful nuances of our lives’. Was…

Most collections of journalism are bad. There are two reasons for this: one is that they are usually incoherent and…

As the Great War unfolds, voices we don’t usually hear describe with a terrible raw honesty the realities of their experience, says David Crane

Melbourne was just stirring into public cultural life when the hotel quarantine mishap led to that last alarming lockdown that…

The National Portrait Gallery seems to be floundering. That may be unfair but the announcement of the next exhibition left…

Another week, another online concert; and since orchestral music seems likely to be confined to screens and stereos for a…

The Almeida is fighting back against lockdown with a sprawling family drama about two long-lost siblings. Adrian Lester plays Gilbert…

Everything is too long these days, isn’t it? Every series is at least two episodes too long, podcasts go on…

Michael Hann talks to the cult rock star Steven Wilson about why it’s harder to write a pop song than prog

Pelé is a two-hour documentary about the great Brazilian footballer — the greatest footballer ever, some would say — who…

Rosie Millard gets her gloved hands on one of the world’s most lavish – and expensive – art books

To begin on a cheerful note, it’s certainly been a good week for fans of slow-burn British crime dramas with…

For New Zealanders to be losing our democracy may be due to sheer carelessness, ignorance, or even stupidity, not to…

Nancy Pelosi succeeded in banning ‘mother’ from appearing in the paperwork of Congress. Now the ANU’s Gender Institute Handbook wants…

Four unclued lights of a kind, one of two words with an apostrophe, include the theme word. The remaining unclued…

Gstaad The sun has returned, the snow is so-so, and exercise has replaced everything, including romance. What a way to…

In Competition No. 3187 you were asked to provide a sea shanty on a topical theme. This challenge was an…

Q. Our friend lives far away, but comes to stay at her country place nearby several times a year. Some…

Lockdown provides time to think, and to reminisce. A South African friend, trapped in Amsterdam, phoned the other day. Had…

What do people think espouse means? It looks fairly plain, since spouses are to have and to hold, or indeed…

There is a kind of conversation which sounds intelligent, and which makes sense at first hearing, but which deeper thought…

Diamonds are forever, they say. Likewise, brilliant games of chess have an everlasting sparkle. I will never tire of replaying…

I naively hoped that last year’s statement by the Equalities Minister explaining why unconscious bias training was being phased out…

‘Anything you say may be given in evidence. Do you have anything to say?’ I looked at the baby-faced police…

The solution at 1 Across includes the theme-word PAUL which means ‘little’, hence the puzzle’s title. First prize Mike Leese,…

Black to play. Warakomski-–Korobov, February 2021. White has a pin on the b-file and 1…Bxg2+ 2 Kxg2 Bc5 3 Rb7…

The late, great Martin Hoffman always claimed he was the unluckiest player in the world. If he was playing rubber,…

After weeks of living in the 18th century, going everywhere on foot and encountering few other souls, I drove to…