Easter is a time of rebirth and renewal in both Christian celebrations as well as the pagan festivities that the…

Here at Politics Central (motto: vote early, vote often) we have been in a state of unbelievable stress over the…

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Time for a new centre-right party? Don’t you find it odd that many of the people now clamouring for some…

Politicians are playing us for mugs

Has the free speech fightback begun?

Morrison capitulates to the Left. Turnbull triumphs.

Why is the Berejiklian government indoctrinating children with discredited racist theories?

The West’s progressives are building a communist world superpower

Corporate eco-activists raise the stakes

Bring back Abbott

Spring is coming. There was snow in the garden till last week, here in Canada, where I have been spending…

It’s time to get Britain travelling again

Conservatives are now the radicals on campus

Ed Davey on why the Lib Dems are the only party voting against lockdown laws

Are Mormons prepared to ignore their troubled history?

The problems with ‘Spiritual but not Religious’

The need to tackle vaccine hesitancy

We Mormons really aren’t that different

Has the vaccine cured my long Covid?

We still can’t be sure where the virus originated

In early April, when the chiffchaff sings its drab little song in the leafless hawthorns, something is stirring in the…

Western democracies must unite against China’s economic bullying

Almost 20 years ago, Michael Howard spoke about the ‘British dream’: that immigrant families like his could come to this…

Mounting losses The England football team beat San Marino 5-0, taking to 56 the number of competitive games that the…

Ticket to freedom Sir: While I sympathise immensely with the spirit of last week’s lead article (‘Friends in need’, 27…

Home More than 30 million had received their first dose vaccination. The government remained confident of supplying second doses and…

When I finally head back to church this weekend, after a year of Covid-avoidance, it is going to feel a…

Divorcing couples are being given vouchers worth £500 to settle their problems by mediation rather than going to court. It…

I am having very little success in getting my collection of cartoons of great religious founders published. Perhaps it is…

‘The reason we have the vaccine success is because of capitalism — because of greed, my friends.’ So Boris Johnson…

I have a thought for the students of Loyola University in Baltimore, Maryland: this Easter, why not resurrect Flannery O’Connor?…

I wonder exactly when we agreed that it is more of a priority to gather with strangers than to meet…

‘Interior silence’ is not a phrase I associate with Sarah Sands, until recently the editor of the BBC Today programme…

Philip Roth was prepared to stare the soul resolutely in the face – and for that he can be forgiven most things, says David Baddiel

In 2018 David Hockney went to Normandy to look at the Bayeux Tapestry, which he had not seen for more…

I have enjoyed many of Alan Warner’s previous novels, so it gives me no pleasure to report that his new…

In 1866, the Russian historian Alexander Popov made an astonishing discovery. Leafing through a Renaissance Slavonic translation of the first-century…

The use of ‘Ceramic’ rather than ‘Ceramics’ in the title of this book indicates Paul Greenhalgh’s passionate belief that ‘ceramic…

Helgoland is a craggy German island in the North Sea. Barely bigger than a few fields, it reaches high above…

What an awful title. Something we hacks are forever saying (along with ‘Make mine a double’ and ‘Is it still…

Suffering from post-traumatic stress and the effects of government austerity measures, Paul Jones resigned as the head of an inner-city…

It’s one of those secrets that we keep even from ourselves that great acting, everything that we know in terms…

It is difficult not to be irritated by the preoccupations of the funded state theatre companies. They seem to be…

In the early Noughties there was a Hollywood subgenre (by which I mean a few cult movies, each with terrible…

Laura Freeman considers how artists have depicted one of the strangest and most touching of the Stations of the Cross

Jina and the STEM Sisters is a blatant act of propaganda. And its intentions are excellent. This is a musical…

In the summer of 2018, when film-maker Lee Isaac Chung was on the brink of giving up filmmaking and had…

Community music-making is the unifying jewel in the British crown, says James MacMillan

For the past few weeks I have been binge-watching the Netflix series Call My Agent! (or Dix pour cent, as…

Australia’s by-sea-girtness, as much as its size, means meteorologists will always have their work cut out predicting the kind of…

The Oxford English Dictionary is currently asking ‘how and why sexist terms are recorded in the dictionary and what this…

After the thrills and spills and last-gasp excitements of England’s triple-headed series in India, the attention of the cricket fan…

Along with many other people, I gave up drinking for the month of January and then resumed with gusto on…

‘What, old monkey-face!’ said my husband with unnecessary lack of gallantry. He was referring to the 18th Duchess of Alba,…

This week my son came home from school and asked me if it was true that the Jews killed Jesus.…

Q. I have been working (from home) for a TV comedy production company for a year. My job is scouting…

If you wish to unsettle your opponents, first attack them and second, play the moves quickly. It’s far from easy…

White to play and mate in two moves. Composed by B.P. Barnes, Skakbladet 1961. Answers should be emailed to chess@spectator.co.uk…

In Competition No. 3192 you were invited to submit a short story that features an animal (or animals) taking revenge…

‘Alas, David can’t be here this afternoon,’ I told the French teacher as she let me into her light and…

These days, most tournaments take place either on Bridge Base Online or Realbridge. I far prefer BBO for one reason:…

Watching a woman driving a dog past my house like a carthorse is just another ‘new normal’ of lockdown. This…

How Father Sean Breen would have loved this year’s Cheltenham Festival. The late parish priest at Ballymore Eustace, who owned…

Six of the unclued lights are RAF stations of WW2. First prize Kathleen Durber, Stoke-on-Trent Runners-up Alison Gillam, Knotty Green,…

Chelsea/Gstaad Oh, to be in England! But let’s start at the beginning. I challenge any reader to claim they are…

Each solution contains one letter at least once, always omitted in the cryptic wordplay of each clue. This letter and…