As the union movement and other woke or left-wing entities struggle to find ever more imaginative new ways to waste…

Burke’s even worse than Bowen

Should the law interfere?

Time for a grassroots reformation of the Liberal party

The Launceston lesson

Labor’s economic plan is nothing but theft and sabotage

If the dollar is power, central banks cannot be neutral

Trump gets it right vetoing Starmer’s insane Chagos giveaway

Abbott, Taylor and the great Liberal walkout

A litany of Aussie doom and gloom can be alleviated by the footy, US-style

Pauline measures curtains at the Lodge

Is there any area of public policy which Keir Starmer’s government has got right? ‘Where very little is working, AI…

Still they keep coming: email after email from Jeffrey Epstein’s personal correspondence, along with the almost unmanageable amount of other…

Like Harold Wilson and his ill-defined ‘white heat of technology’, Keir Starmer has latched on to artificial intelligence as the…

Forgive me. I am going to begin by quoting two prominent left-wing Londoners – and agreeing with one. In a…

Last December, we flew to Los Angeles to interview Peter Thiel, the billionaire tech tycoon and co-founder of PayPal. We…

Of all the weapons in Vladimir Putin’s arsenal, the most strategically crucial has proved to be not hypersonic missiles but…

The BBC reported terrible news last week about polar bears: they are thriving. This is very annoying of them as…

When you’re the chief of the defence staff, the head of the British armed forces, it’s never a good sign…

It is widely known that when a Duke of York is down, he is down, and the recent hit-piece in…

How a profession speaks to its subjects is always of interest to a writer, sometimes perversely so. Over the past…

Royal removals The King has had more success in stripping Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor of his royal titles than George IV had…

‘The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom,’ espoused German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. Having spent the past fortnight…

Home Lord Mandelson resigned his membership of the Labour party and then retired from the House of Lords; some of…

Ask ChatGPT to write a Spectator leader about the risks of AI and it begins like this: ‘There are two…

To look through Jeffrey Epstein’s curriculum vitae on Google is to be left goggling at how this revolting creature could have…

Chagos stupidity Sir: To British Establishment watchers, Michael Gove’s dissection of the dubious and devious machinations of Jonathan Powell, Richard…

A fight between Alastair Campbell and Peter Mandelson? A difficult one to call, really. Like a war between Pakistan and…

I think by now most of us can spot a double standard when we see one. So let me try…

British by-elections are often prolonged affairs, dragging on for months. Yet in the Manchester seat of Gorton and Denton –…

Last Saturday, a friend in Washington emailed to say he had been studying some of the latest 3.5 million pages…

The Catholic Church has always been remarkably relaxed about sin. It becomes distinctly jumpy, however, when it encounters any challenge…

‘It’s all about ABBA,’ a military acquaintance whispered when I mentioned the scandal of the British Army’s order of 589…

After my grandmother died a few years ago, we couldn’t bring ourselves to get rid of most of her possessions.…

Alfred and Doris Moritz remained largely silent about their persecution in Nazi Germany, having tried their best to erase the memory, according to their son Michael

Amy Dempsey explains how nude representations, from Botticelli’s ‘Birth of Venus’ to Manet’s ‘Olympia’, express both emotion and the attitudes of the day

In 1766, a small party from the Hudson Bay Company head to the subarctic tundra in search of untold riches

The ebb and flow of harmony between a composer and her chosen solo saxophonist is charted with meticulous precision

With attendance in long-term decline and too many clergy trapped in the headlights of identity politics, the ‘ark of salvation’ seems barely seaworthy

The inadequate scrutiny of shell companies and continual printing of vast quantities of high-denomination banknotes are just some indications of a shameful systemic failure

The 19th-century merchant from Truro who posed as a charismatic preacher and saviour of the poor was far more deranged than anyone realised

Music has the odd quality of being an abstract art as well as one that generates great gulfs and legions…

Annie & the Caldwells are a long-running family gospel ensemble from West Point, Mississippi – father and sons playing guitar,…

The Fabulous Funeral Parlour ended with possibly the least necessary caption in TV history: ‘Filmed in Liverpool’. Whenever I go…

Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov is back at Covent Garden, and there are ninjas. This isn’t a spoiler. There hasn’t been a…

Cable Street is a musical that premièred last year at the Southwark Playhouse and has now migrated to the Marylebone…

The documentary Melania, which follows the first lady in the 20 days leading up to her husband’s 2025 presidential inauguration,…

When the American choreographer Paul Taylor died at the age of 88 in 2018, he should have been consecrated a…

‘The place through which he made his way at leisure was one of those receptacles for old and curious things…

The adherents of the American alt-right are not known for their delicate aesthetic sensibilities, but there is an exception. They…

According to a Tokyo University study of dogs, we can disregard the usual male-female stereotypes, as their research shows boy…

Recently on Mammamia.com Emily Vernem and Holly Wainwright complained about the rise of what they call ‘dawn culture’. They complain…

When the celebrations are kicking off in the winners’ enclosure, I dare say being a racehorse trainer looks glamorous. But…

My friend Tim Andrew has admirable priorities. When I told him I had tickets for this week’s Six Nations opener…

‘How many letters?’ asked my husband, as though it were a crossword we were doing together. ‘Five,’ I replied. ‘Begins…

The exterior of the Phoenix Palace is cream with golden letters like the napkin and the Laffer curve, and it…

The estate agent said that they would send someone round tomorrow and I had to calm them down. Come in…

I am ‘sharing’ what follows as a public service. Also, as self-care in the hope that publicly shaming myself might…

Competition 3435 invited you to write a poem that included Wendy Cope’s immortal line ‘A happier cabbage you never did…

Q. My grandson has just failed his driving test for the fifth time and yet I know, from his chauffeuring…

‘That’s not a pasty!’ my husband declares loftily, eyeing up what most definitely is a veritable clutch of cheese and…

I was planning to begin this column by saying how relieved I was to be mentioned in the latest Epstein…