Could the wheels finally be coming off the greatest hoax of the last fifty years? Is it too much to…

Chambers is abuzz with the Dyson affair

Three terms of Coalition government - for what?

China and Iran. Sinister alliance on the new Silk Road

Having failed to build a better world, the Left now wish to destroy it

Revolutionary violence and anarchy never know when to stop

Today’s so-called revolutionaries are hardly Marxists

The highest authority in the land will now reap the woke whirlwind

Couldn’t we just defund the humour police?

For artists, writers and creative people in general the isolationist directives make very little difference. As usual, we go about…

We all lose when due process is denied. Even in cases of sexual harrassment

How was Britain so ill-prepared for a pandemic?

Covid has revealed what is wrong with Whitehall

This is no leftist revolution

How have you been filling these listless homebound hours we’ve been given by the government? I’ve been frittering them away…

From the balcony where I take my daily exercise there is a view of the commercial centre of London that…

If Boris wants to channel Roosevelt, he should end lockdown

We won the Battle of Britain – just

Do we really want to re-racialise society?

The printed press is not a natural ally of Facebook. Silicon Valley publishers have hoovered up so much advertising that…

Deterring crime Sir: Rod Liddle is right to highlight the politicisation of the police as a source of their inadequacies,…

Home Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, said he was ‘as fit as a butcher’s dog’ and did press-ups to prove…

Leicester lockdowns Leicester was forced to impose the first local lockdown, in response to a reported surge in cases of…

Word has it that ministers already do not bother to argue their corner with the government’s inner ring, while a…

Do you remember where you were when the BBC showed a rerun of Bowie’s Glastonbury set? When we ask each…

I sometimes pick up some food at Tesco for an 86-year-old pensioner who lives a few streets over. At the…

John Maynard Keynes looks down and smiles, recalling his own perhaps too-often quoted remark that ‘when the facts change, I…

For the first time in 13 years, the public, when polled, think a Labour leader would make the best prime…

‘It’s no go my honey love, it’s no go my poppet; Work your hands from day to day, the winds…

Of all the people who have made cash in the past month, few can have raked it in like Robin…

The life of Paul Ramsay shows that business people don’t have to be ruthless to succeed. Many will find this…

Alan Johnson pays tribute to Ernest Bevin, a towering political figure too often forgotten

Most monuments are literally set in stone — or cast in bronze to better survive the weather. Being enduring, they…

It has been three years since Amanda Craig’s previous novel, The Lie of the Land, the story of a foundering…

From ancient times, empires have risen and fallen, driven by war, territorial acquisition, trade, plunder, religion, ideology, technology, culture and…

If I had a rouble or a euro for every reader who fulfilled their lockdown promise to devour Dostoevsky, Tolstoy…

Disaster tourism allows people to explore places in the aftermath of natural and man-made disasters. Sites of massacres and concentration…

History is full of ‘ifs’ and the Spartan story fuller than most. If the 300 had not made their famous…

What can we ever know about our family’s past? How do we love those closest to us when doing so…

She is not a theoretical or idealogical environmentalist. Wendy Bowman became an activist when her crops were ruined by polluted…

When a 90-minute documentary is introduced with the words ‘This is the M25’, you’d be within your rights not to…

Leaf Arbuthnot and Igor Toronyi-Lalic on the new cultural rebels

A star is born, but instead of emerging into the world beaming for the cameras, he spits and snarls and…

Nicholas Hytner’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream opens in a world of puritanical austerity. The cast wear sombre black costumes and…

In Beeb-dominated Britain, the commercial triumph of podcasting — epitomised by Spotify’s recent £100 million deals with Joe Rogan and…

In the past Werner Herzog has given us a man pushing a ship up a mountain, a 16th-century conquistador going…

For three months art lovers have had nothing but screens to look at. As one New York dealer complained to…

It has been brought to my attention that the rename Victoria suggestion I made in these pages two weeks ago…

We cannot bear more drive-through or take-out or near-fatal snack. I am convinced of the boredom of my female ancestors,…

Q. Just before Covid, we moved out of London with the intention of having a quiet life in the country.…

At Glastonbury in 2017 ‘a whole swathe of young people had a political awakening’, chanting ‘Oh, Jeremy Corbyn’, said the…

What do we want? We want to play bridge. But who anticipated Covid-19 was going to close every bridge club…

Avid Spectator reader Mr Brown had endured the very strictest of lockdowns for family health reasons in Tunbridge Wells. Since…

Where were we? Oh yes, Liverpool were running away with the Premier League and a mere three months later have…

As we all know by now, the pandemic distorts time like a concertina. Life before March is a world that…

My friend turned up wearing a snorkelling mask, beneath which she had tied a bandana around her mouth. On her…

Gstaad A friend of mine who lives here wants to start a literary festival and asked me if I had…

It’s open season on mavericks and dissenters at the moment. If you publicly challenge any of the sacred nostrums of…

White to play. From the ridiculous to the sublime. According to the ‘Chess Notes’ website, a game won by Edward…

  14 which is unclued below, but is clued elsewhere, has to be divided into three components (one a Spanish…

  The unclued lights include the name of a British daily newspaper; 3/26A, 9/35, 12, 24, 28/31D and 34/21. First…

In Competition No. 3155 you were invited to supply a poem entitled ‘The Picnic’. This challenge was prompted by a…

Chess has much in common with video games — not least, the eager disdain of uninformed critics. An 1859 article…