A warm, fuzzy pat on the back for Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who went to Paris and – thus far…

The altruistic evil of green economic terrorists

It is not often that I feel sorry for a politician however Bill Leak’s portrait of Bill Shorten as a…

The president of the Human Rights Commission must live in a moral galaxy far, far away

Too many within the Islamic community, wittingly or otherwise, promote the jihadist mindset

Wealthy greenies demanding the third world go without coal is immoral and hypocritical

There is a certain contradiction to Peter Hitchens: on the one hand, he’s an author and journalist of immense energy…

Forty years ago, the French author, Jean Raspail, wrote a confronting novel about a third world invasion of Europe. His…

The Turnbull coup has finished off one Liberal leader and put paid to two others

The mysterious defence minister is now favourite to succeed Vladimir Putin as president

At last, cooler heads are prevailing

Young activists fight like vipers to get close to power . . . and it’s all a huge myth

In trying to protect ‘our grandchildren’ from climate change, politicians are hurting the poor. They shouldn’t

They are invaluable back-up to the police, calming things down with kind words — and chips

Even if I could, I don’t regret remaining silent. Prison reform means accepting some failures

Labour is all at sea. Chaos and panic reign. Will its leader be able to take the strain?

His ideas are so much more fun than Eartha Kitt’s

This is an issue of solidarity with our European allies

Home The House of Commons voted on air strikes in Syria. Labour MPs had been allowed a free vote by…

On being a climate-change apostate; Cardinal Roger Harrabin; a ghostly encounter; Keith Vaz; cows

Plus: what scientists believe about climate change; which countries emit the most per capita; and pleasant climate summits

What are MPs for when the 250,000 who voted for the left-winger as their leader now dictate Labour party policy?

From ‘Payment of members’, The Spectator, 4 December 1915: If the country could be polled at the present time, there is…

Mal content Sir: Would The Spectator Australia please reduce the level of Turnbull Hating indulged in by its regular contributors.…

This former paratroop officer would be an instant fix to Labour’s damaged reputation for patriotism and willingness to keep the country safe

And: something to bear in mind about the Tory bullying scandal; and why it is wrong for Christians to eat their wives

It’s either that, or move to the far north of Scotland

They are capable of emotion, but only when it suits their predetermined agenda of things that matter

Plus: the riskiest bit of Osborne’s Autumn Statement; and more tales of business banking

But the towering general and his diminutive, homely wife were devoted to one another, as Flora Fraser reveals in her dual biography

Alistair Horne’s survey of 20th-century warfare illustrates how often daring didn’t win

Norman Davies tells the stirring tale of the ragtag Polish army that marched thousands of miles to aid the Allies at a critical juncture of the second world war

David Horspool’s biography provides a devastating indictment of the tyrannical murderer who lost his throne, his life and his dynasty

Two new books take a radically different approach, but the lively 30-Second Shakespeare beats the academic ‘alternative biography’ hands down

According to their latest biographies, two of the cleverest men at the heart of the Cambridge spy ring failed to achieve anything — or even caused much damage

Ken Thompson’s The Sceptical Gardener explodes many hoary myths, while giving serious (and often humorous) advice

Graham Johnson’s unrivalled three-volume commentary on the song cycle will be your companion for life

J.J. Robinson fears that the paradise that was once the Maldives may be lost forever to Islamism

Alastair Bellany and Thomas Cogswell revisit a very cold case and suggest that the Duke of Buckingham may have made a fatal mistake

Rupert Thompson’s mysterious ice maiden, drawn to living in an Arctic wasteland, has had a frozen existence from the start

According to Paul Brighton’s Original Spin, the highly moral Gladstone was a far cannier manipulator of the media than the flamboyant Disraeli

Mark Fisher pays tribute to Carol Ann Duffy — a true Romantic poet who looks set to become a great one

Nick Rennison’s The Rivals of Dracula shows that many Victorian and Edwardian novelists tried their hand at this staple of Gothic horror

Peter Robins reports on a site-specific transformation of The Unfortunates by the literary innovator B.S. Johnson

Plus: David McVicar kills Glyndebourne’s touring Entfuhrung by kindness

Twee and fake can be beguiling in ballet, but it’s not in this Two Pigeons revival

Plus: at Pallant House Gallery, several masterpieces by the unclassifiable David Jones

Plus: Patrick Marmion has created a bleakly hilarious account of rock-star psychiatrist R.D. Laing’s at the Arcola

The lyricism of director Terence Davies is unlike the work of any other British director and worth celebrating

Plus: Radio 3’s Northern Lights season begins with the broadcast of a classic 1967 ‘contrapuntal radio documentary’ by Glenn Gould

Plus: two properly great sitcoms, Detectorists and Catastrophe, reach the end of their second series

We are now officially in summer and the beach season. The importance of the beach in our national self-image the…

He tells it like it is — and the proles love it

The only way to write on a typewriter is with your trousers on fire — and very refreshing it is

A wild goose chase on the M6 toll road then the police threw the book at me

We are addicting to celebrating — even when we have nothing to celebrate

If you don’t play bridge, you really should avoid gatherings of bridge players — you’ll find us excruciatingly dull. I’ve…

The annual London Classic, inspired and organised by the indefatigable Malcolm Pein, is now underway at London’s Olympia. The website…

White to play. This position is from Edward Lasker-Thomas, London 1912. This is one of the most famous combinations ever…

In Competition No. 2926 you were invited to submit a poem about HS2. The idea for this challenge came to…

In each of eight clues, one letter has been cut from the definition part; the cut letters spell a word…

The publication is 11A. Other unclued lights are all anagrams (‘new’ versions) of scientists: 14A SEABORG; 22A EINSTEIN; 23A PASTEUR;…

Except under non-leftie Tony Blair, the party has not won a decisive election victory for nearly 50 years

How Adam Smith’s theory fosters specialist talent

Plus: Snubbing and parking

Trenchering in western England, where one local vicar, a notorious naturist, has taken to ­wearing a green collar

The ‘committing’ that women are said to find so hard to extract from men has popped up in the past 30 years