The Spectator
Australia
Watch Cop28 and weep
What a hoot. The global warming cult have finally learned their lesson and decided to hold this year’s annual Cop…
Australian Features
The Dutch Trump’s big win
Europeans turn against mass immigration and climate craziness
Roll out the red carpet for jihad
Labor is compromising the safety of all Australians
New Zealand’s Yoni-come-latelies
On the unusual and enduring relationship between Maoris and Jews
Usurping the dollar
US rivals are desperate to create an alternate reserve currency
Gaza visas are worse than foolhardy
The doomed Albanese government is playing with fire
Features
Help! I’m trapped in a leasehold
Generation Rent, we are always being told, are fed up of having to pay ‘dead’ money to their landlords. The…
The Week
Columnists
Books
Mother’s always angry: Jungle House, by Julianne Pachino, reviewed
But who – or what – is Mother? And are her exasperated warnings about ever-present danger exaggerated?
Fast and furious: America Fantastica, by Tim O’Brien, reviewed
As the avalanche of lies issuing from the White House morphs into the pandemic, Covid becomes in an engine of justice in this rollicking satire on Trumpworld
In the dark early 1960s, at least we had the Beatles
The first half of the decade saw towns bulldozed, the Beeching cuts, everyday racism, political scandal and the threat of Armageddon. But there was also Beatlemania…
The hubris of the great airship designers
Rushing to build the world’s largest flying machine was perhaps Britain’s greatest imperial folly, with a disregard for safety measures dooming the R101 to disaster
A strong whiff of goodbyes: The Pole and Other Stories, by J.M. Coetzee, reviewed
‘The cogs are seizing up, the lights are going out.’ As Elizabeth Costello clears her desk in this collection of stories, we feel that Coetzee may be doing the same
Religion provides the rhythm
From the Gospel journeys of Aretha Franklin to the late-life monasticism of Leonard Cohen, the great musical artists of the 20th century were often quasi-religious figures
Sex and the Famous Five
Before drawing tenuous comparisons between Enid Blyton and David Bowie, Nicholas Royle invites us to consider the erotic potential of Timmy the dog
The splendour and squalor of Venice
In his celebration of Venetian art, Martin Gayford is keenly alert to the city’s spectacular contradictions
Arts
Every kind of spectacular effect
It’s starting to turn into the season to be jolly (or whatever variant you can manage) with the Melbourne Symphony…
Life
Aussie life
While the donning of keffiyehs by actors at the end of a performance of the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of…
Language
When Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press he was asked if Israel was breaking international…
The new status symbol of the super rich: headlice
To help out friends, I sometimes collect a boy from his primary school near Sloane Square. This part of London…










































































