It is hard to work out Labor’s priorities, by which we mean Labor’s priorities in destroying this nation. On virtually…

On 30 November Britons and Australians alike celebrate the 150th birthday of a great, but largely forgotten man: Winston S.…

Would you put your fate in their hands?

Ask a cab-driver instead

On the throbbing background of Australia’s greatest mining town

Trump’s war on woke

Australia, America and Japan announce a further alliance

On the Alan Jones case

Is woke going out of fashion?

From neo-cons and reo-cons to arch-cons and rom-cons, please define us first!

Appeasing anti-Semitism

I’ve always loved cinema, but hardly ever cinemas. It’s no surprise to me that movie-going audiences are in decline. Ticket…

At this time of year I’d usually be writing dozens of Christmas cards, with a Snowball to hand, heavy on…

When a DHL cargo plane crashed while approaching Vilnius airport on Monday, killing one of the crew, it looked like…

Strange things are happening again in global politics. In Romania, a former UN sustainability adviser who has made admiring remarks…

Smithfield has been the beating heart of London’s meat industry for more than 800 years. Located at the middle point…

Now that I’m no longer editor of this magazine, I can admit that I spent the election night of 1997…

Boris Johnson is enjoying himself back at The Spectator. ‘My place of former employment,’ the former editor booms as he…

In they pour, one after another, cheerily thudding on to the doormat: ‘Thank you for insuring with us again! Now,…

The SAS are worried. Britain’s most elite military unit have come face to face with the IRA, the Taliban and…

What is the Confederation of British Industry for? Indeed, who is it for? The soi-disant voice of British business held…

Home A white paper outlined measures to counter economic inactivity (which had risen by September to 41.2 per cent among…

Surely charity is about helping others, not massaging your own ego? Ed Sheeran’s boycott of Band Aid is yet another example of…

Losing the plot Sir: Your leading article ‘Blight on the land’ (23 November) is right to call out the hypocrisy…

Sign of the times A petition for an immediate general election gathered 2.7 million signatures in five days.   What are…

A professor of neurophysiology has announced that anger is a good thing with a ‘very useful purpose’, unless it turns…

How is it possible that we’re still reading headlines about the £4 billion fundraising from the Gulf that saved Barclays…

Did you sign it, then? And if so, what were your expectations? That Sir Keir Starmer would look at the…

How rare it is to be given a second chance. That’s what the American people have handed Donald Trump. His…

It is always interesting to watch the debates that roil a nation. So far as I can see, the current…

A spectre is haunting Wales. Fresh from Reform’s election victories in Westminster, Nigel Farage is turning his attention westwards, to…

Older citizens have identified with Russia all their lives – and Russian is still commonly spoken everywhere. But young Odesans are now using more Ukrainian as a symbol of resistance

Alex James’s embrace of the term distinguishes him from his contemporaries. Miranda Sawyer reminds us of how much of the best 1990s music fell outside Britpop’s retromania

The great poem is mostly about revolution: how much individuals can revolt against God, father, church and king without bringing all the heavens down upon their heads

The Chilean writer contributes obliquely to the fledgling genre of fatherhood literature, combining family vignettes with literary criticism and a ‘diary’ addressed to his infant son

The Shakespearean actor has taken on 18 of the great roles since his first gig at the RSC in 1985 and recalls them with insight, sensitivity and a sharp passion for language

Immigration is revivifying congregations, with many people showing signs of spiritual openness, in contrast to the bare-knuckle rationalism that characterised New Atheism, says Rupert Shortt

A former college professor prepares to write his long-gestated book on Montaigne, but finds his mind wandering from 1970s nudism to Balzac’s coffee dependency

The neurologist Guy Leschziner explores the medical conditions that might underlie extremes of human behaviour in a fascinating study that combines biology and psychology

An unsettling collection of stories loosely connected by the theme of hunger contains graphic descriptions of violence and cannibalism – as the publishers see fit to warn us

Bound in a web of connectivity, the serviceberry produces sufficient food for humans and other animals, and is an outstanding example of wealth consisting in ‘having enough to share’

Contemporary authors, including Rick Riordan, Kate di Camillo, Mark Forsyth and Michael Stavaric, share shelf space with welcome reprints, including the ever-terrifying Struwwelpeter

Biography can create the most heightened sense of drama. Just at the moment SBS On Demand is showing a streamer…

A slice of the ghetto arrives at the Kiln Theatre in Kilburn. The Purists is set on the stoop of…

Soon after the launch of Classic FM in 1992, the then controller of Radio 3, Nicholas Kenyon, asserted that his…

‘I hope we passed the audition,’ said an alarmingly youthful Bob Geldof at one point in The Making of Do…

Conclave is a papal thriller based on the 2016 novel by Robert Harris and it stars a magnificent Ralph Fiennes.…

It was Irish week in London, with one group from the north and one from the south. Guinness was sold…

Grade: A- There’s a very faint echo of Jeff VanderMeer’s unheimlich Southern Reach Series in the new indie side-scroller Neva.…

Among the many destructive after-effects of the pandemic, the impact of two years of lockdowns has had serious consequences for…

After taking a wrong turn culminating in the misbegotten Frankenstein, Akram Khan has wisely returned to his original inspiration in…

There was some light booing on the first night of English National Opera’s The Elixir of Love, but it was…

Watching William Kentridge’s film Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot is like being submerged inside his mind, inside the coffee pot maybe.…

Let me be absolutely clear: when I referred to the next president of Australia’s most important military ally and economic…

Speccie reader Doug writes to ask about ‘mansplaining’. This comes from the same feminist language cauldron as ‘toxic masculinity’ (meaning…

John Prescott, so Dominic Sandbrook observed last week, ‘infamously exchanged punches with a protestor in full view of the cameras’.…

Q. My husband has a stressful job and needs to quietly decompress at the end of the week. This is…

I read with some disappointment recently that the Encyclopaedia Britannica considers 61 – the age I am now – to…

For British people, America is an idea brought by cinema, and The Dover, the New York Italian bar and restaurant…

Under a dark sapphire sky, tearing across grass as green as a lick of new paint, Mitchell Starc raced in…

The World Championship match between Ding Liren and Dommaraju Gukesh is now underway in Singapore. The $2.5 million prize fund will…

As the editor’s brief for this column is ‘Fomo-inducing’, I must push the boat out for my debut and am…

With farmers outraged, the nation’s biggest employers warning the Budget will bring increased prices and lost jobs and growth out…

The empty train seat looked inviting, and all three of us stared at it, then looked away, not daring to…

There is a gentle irony to the dish coquilles St Jacques: a decadent, rich preparation of one of our most…