Tens of thousands of Sydney radio listeners have deserted the ABC in the latest ratings survey. When this happens to…

Performative nonsense on steroids

In rural Australia the climate consensus is cracking

Woke words are money at the NDIS

Net zero is nonsense

A decade of economic stagnation

How a civic duty became a career, a caste and a costume

We’ve learned nothing

The China problem

‘The Dismissal’ misses a key point

Empower Australians to initiate constitutional change, as the Swiss can

With his owlish expression and affable manner, Nick Thomas-Symonds looks more like the academic that he was, rather than the…

Of all Gordon Brown’s mistakes, perhaps the most sobering was his decision to end the tradition of drinking at the…

It was roughly 55 years ago, at the tail end of the 1960s, that I took the monumental decision to…

In order to impose peace terms, you first need to win the war. That fundamental principle seems, for the moment,…

The term ‘spinster’ doesn’t seem to scare young women like it once might have. In fact, it is rarely heard…

Jonathan Swift had a suitably unromantic attitude to holy matrimony. Once, when sheltering under a tree during a storm near…

‘Those whom God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.’ With this stern admonition, the Church has long been…

I started counting magpies during my brief, doomed time as a history teacher. Trudging in every morning, the grim prospect…

Though Rebecca Culley is obviously a wrong ’un – having stolen £90,000 from her dear old gramps while pretending to…

Nero’s personal amphitheatre, recently discovered near the Vatican, was praised to the skies in the ancient Romans’ ‘newspaper’. The historian…

Party poopers ‘Your party’ holds its inaugural conference this weekend in a state of internal wrangling. Could it become the…

The British establishment cuts its deals with fish knives. If you want to catch this country’s business leaders and political…

Home Before Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, delivered the Budget, the Office for Budget Responsibility accidentally released its…

Why are jury trials so precious? According to one prominent alumnus of Harvard Law School, who was writing in protest…

Unsustainable energy Sir: Sir Richard Dearlove (‘Net cost’, 22 November) succinctly sums up the views of many of us who…

During last week’s excruciating Oval Office make-nice between an insultingly buddy-buddy American President and a fraudulently obsequious New York City…

Readers tend not to approve of rows between columnists, but I must take issue with something Lloyd Evans wrote in…

For quite a few members of the House of Commons culture, media and sport committee, the answer to the claims…

Rachel Reeves is lucky that the name ‘omnishambles Budget’ has already been taken. When the entire document was published long…

When I first joined The Spectator under the proprietorship of Conrad Black, we operated in sisterhood with the Telegraph titles…

But her unfailing humour does help lighten a solid new biography that focuses on her tireless campaign for social justice

The relentless pursuit of profit inevitably involves cruel exploitation – whether it’s children in Manchester’s cotton mills or Uighurs in Xinjiang’s industrial plants

At the heart of this vast, sweeping novel is a solitary, determined heroine, who – Jane Eyre-like – is a moral force unbound by conventionalities

Bedridden for much of her youth, she found consolation in music, and a way ‘into fairyland’ through a treasured poetry anthology

Highlights include boarding school antics, adventures in Persian folklore and a wealth of classic stories – including Hansel and Gretel, retold by Stephen King

A mute 12-year-old girl is invited to Dr Asperger’s clinic in 1930s Vienna – but how will ‘idiot’ children fare once the Nazis come to power?

The more we learn about the only mammals capable of true, sustained flight, the more we should admire them

Anne-Louise Sarks’ production of that dazzling dramatic opera Carmen at Melbourne’s Regent was sometimes lit like a Christmas tree, sometimes…

Left-Handed Girl is a Taiwanese drama about a single mother who moves back to Taipei with her two daughters to…

Anybody growing weary of the debate surrounding the BBC’s unexamined assumptions and biases about modern politics might have expected to…

End is the title chosen by David Eldridge for his new relationship drama. Clive Owen and Saskia Reeves star as…

There were times watching Radiohead’s first UK show for seven years when Ricky Gervais came to mind. As Thom Yorke…

Most choreographers today have lost interest in using music as anything more than a background wash of colour and mood.…

Even if you think you don’t know William Nicholson, it’s a fair bet that you’ve come across his work. If…

It was such an enticing programme, too. The Philharmonia had booked Evgeny Kissin, the last great piano prodigy of the…

When Gurdain Ryatt, Ojas Adhiya, Milind Kulkarni and Murad Ali Khan take to the stage at Milton Court this Sunday…

Lock up your babies, Brisbane; the Queensland government is considering lifting its ban on keeping dingos as pets. I had…

There is an expression that is now quite common in America, although I don’t think I’ve heard it used in…

A few years ago my employer, the advertising agency Ogilvy, introduced a recruitment scheme called ‘The Pipe’. It was a…

Kenya Here’s why house-hunting in Nairobi, where I can’t afford to buy even a bedsit these days, gives me flashbacks…

The world is in an even greater mess than was apparent. I am not referring to Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan or…

Q. A close friend of my own age, 52, has had various things done to her face and now looks…

In Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, when Ben Gunn is found by Jim Hawkins, sunburnt and wide-eyed after three years…

The garage owner came at me with an angry expression as I pulled on to his forecourt, which was the…

Dante’s Beach, Ravenna The unseasonably warm wind blowing in across the fields from the brooding Adriatic caused my wife Carla…

For Competition 3427 you were invited to write a paean on a place traditionally considered to be ugly. In an…

On my way to the QPR game against Hull last Saturday, I was astonished to discover that Ladbrokes had made…