‘This is what conservatives have to recognise,’ proclaimed former UK prime minister Liz Truss at the Tory party conference in…

Chalmers takes on China (kind of)

An ambassador for some, but not all

Wong’s moral relativism is off the scale

Jim Chalmers & negative gearing

The hard-working migrant is a ‘trope’, apparently

The media are confused as to who the bad guys are

Illegal migrant votes may be the new black swan event

Pravda had nothing on this lot

Starmer sinking like a stone

Only Trump, a latter-day Churchill, can stop it

The other day, clearing out boxes, I stumbled on a sheaf of invitations from childhood. Decorated with trains and fairies,…

At home, the left sees him as cynical, conniving and corrupt; while the right sees him as tired, weak and…

Electricity is magical stuff. From a couple of tiny holes in a wall comes an apparently endless supply of invisible,…

Iran has fallen into the trap set by Israel. It has taken the bait after months of failing to respond…

You find me in the south of France, holed up in that inn of near perfection called La Colombe d’Or…

In the late summer of 2009, Andrew Neil invited me to his villa in the Côte d’Azur but didn’t say…

Ten-year-old Shen Hangping was walking to school when he was stabbed. Japanese on his father’s side, Chinese on his mother’s,…

On a Saturday morning, no life stirs. The village café is closed and the ancient church of St Beuno’s is…

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The guilty plea of the former human rights lawyer Phil Shiner this week to charges of fraud is a story…

Home The Conservatives at their party conference examined the four surviving candidates for leader – Robert Jenrick, Kemi Badenoch, James…

Doctor’s note Sir: Your leading article ‘Labour vs labour’ (21 September) follows a recent theme that I have noticed in…

By rights, the Conservative party conference in Birmingham ought to have been a funereal affair. It was the first time…

I write this as I leave the Tory conference in Birmingham. I have covered most of these events (and many…

Rosie Duffield’s magnificently rancorous resignation of the Labour whip has reduced the number of MPs on the government side who…

There are sources in the Jewish tradition that warn against exultation at the downfall of one’s enemies. But I am…

There have been protests in 30 cities across France, people marching in outrage over the case of Dominique Pelicot who…

So farewell, Ratcliffe-on-Soar: the UK’s last coal-fired power station shut down on Monday, having burned five million tonnes of coal…

The 17th-century Elector of Saxony was notoriously vain and incompetent, and his reckless bid for the Polish crown was disastrous for all concerned

As nine-year-old Max resigns himself to death, a saviour arrives in the person of Keira, the victim of a tragic car crash, whose family opts to donate her organs

The choreographer Anne Allan not only indulged the princess’s love of dance in weekly one-to-one sessions but also became her longstanding confidante

An unnamed narrator, confined to hospital with a torn aorta, reminisces about his past life in Bulgaria, his love of poetry and the happy domesticity he shared with his partner

When Henry Bolingbroke deposed his cousin Richard II, the populace at first united under his command. But was it a sign of divine retribution when his health dramatically deteriorated?

Susanna Crossman recalls her childhood of bullying and sexual molestation in an Orwellian dystopia supposedly devoted to freedom and equality

Disturbing trends in American healthcare, higher education, opioid use and crime come under scrutiny in Malcolm Gladwell’s sequel to The Tipping Point

Details of Baron Talbot of Malahide’s attempts to clean up the mess left by his one-time mentor Guy Burgess are still conveniently exempted from the Freedom of Information Act

Accounts of the current bombings and the daily search for fuel, food and water are by turns heartbreaking, terrified, resilient and defiant – and cling to the hope of a peaceful future

It will be fascinating to see the retrospective of work by Jan Senbergs who died this year and who looms…

Aaron Schimberg’s A Different Man is ‘a darkly comic psychological thriller’ that plays like an inverted Beauty and the Beast.…

Weird play, Coriolanus. It’s like a playground fight that spills out into the street and has to be resolved by…

The curtain is already up at the start of Ted Huffman’s new production of Eugene Onegin. The auditorium is lit…

In advance, Ludwig sounded as if it was aimed squarely at the Inspector Morse market. Set among spires of impeccable…

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There is no better cultural weather vane than pop. It’s not that pop singers possess incredible analytical skills – they…

At the BBC Proms this year, an Icelandic pianist dressed like a Wall Street broker played a slow movement from…

At the same time you were hearing about the second attempt on Donald Trump’s life, you can be sure that…

Speccie reader Peter has written asking me to write something about ‘begs the question’, which, he says, is ‘regularly misused…

My passport and driving licence sat on the counter but the girl stared back at me, repeating her demand. ‘I…

I thought the Spectator dinner for Michael Gove hosted by Fraser Nelson would be cancelled. To be clear, this wasn’t…

There may still be some poor benighted souls who regard the Springboks as the bane of rugby union. If you…

When it comes to traditional recipes, there are few things we love more than an unlikely origin story, ideally one…

There’s no shrewder punter than J.P. McManus who likes to say: ‘There’d be many more fish in the sea if…

Provence A few days before my middle daughter’s Oxfordshire wedding this summer, my youngest announced that she and her fiancé,…

At Julie’s at the fag end of Saturday lunchtime, Notting Hill beauties are defiantly not eating, and the table is…