Donald Trump has won the 2024 election and will be the 47th president of the United States. This magazine, alone…

Marvellous Melbourne will give a closer focus to what is happening in that wonderful city and what we can learn…

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When do we want it? Now

The economy is grinding to a halt

The inquiry is as misinformed as the experts were

Hard choices and tougher times await

Taxpayers should not be supporting university inefficiencies

He’s b-a-a-a-a-a-a-c-k.

How the left are ruining board games

When Australians say no, they mean no

One of Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign ads was aimed at Jewish voters. Three stereotypical New York bubbes are kvetching about…

It was supposed to be close. On the eve of election day, Donald Trump was up just 0.1 per cent…

Palm Beach, Florida Donald Trump’s bid to take back the White House has been triumphant. It is a decisive victory…

Ask young people today if they know that they can dial a number to hear the time and you would…

For the past decade, Donald Trump has been the most famous and influential man on the planet. But he had…

Who is to blame for the devastating floods that hit Valencia on 29 October? The mob that surrounded King Felipe…

Two months ago I moved to London and found it a disorientating experience. Most of my friends were already settled…

Britain’s farmers are in a bind. Despite sitting on land worth millions, they are unable to release that wealth without…

If you are looking for a pointer for the future of the world, the free-diving fisherwomen on the matriarchal, shamanistic…

Two miles from where I am writing, the neighbouring village is plastered with posters demanding ‘Say No to Pylons’. The…

Home Kemi Badenoch, the new leader of the Conservative party, appointed a shadow cabinet. She made Robert Jenrick, whom she…

How the mighty can fall. I was overwhelmed by the approbation I had received for my one-woman show, Behind the…

This has been the year of ejection elections. Across the democratic world, incumbents have been thrown out and insurgents have…

Zero-sum game Sir: Though troubled by the impact of Budget measures on employers and economic growth, I am more baffled…

We hear a lot about white supremacy these days. But for some reason we rarely hear about black supremacy. I…

I notice that the police are not treating the killings of those children in Southport as a terrorist attack. While…

At her first shadow cabinet as Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch walked into the room and declared that there were ‘still…

Sir Henry Keswick died on Tuesday, aged 86. Under his proprietorship, from 1975 to 1981, The Spectator recovered, and began…

It’s always intimidating to write for a readership more clued up than you are. I file this on the very…

You can hear it already. Rising from the tents of the dejected Democrat camp comes the whimper of self-reproach. It’s…

I confess I was lunching at L’Escargot in Greek Street as Rachel Reeves delivered her Budget. My excuse was that…

Julia Hamilton and her daughter Arabella Byrne share their experiences of an addiction that seemed ‘baked into them like a curse’, and the special stigma they felt attached to them

In post-war Bristol, two sisters fall in with a group of arrogant young men and soon feel themselves painfully inferior

Arriving in Shanghai in the summer of 1924, the elegant 28-year-old embarked on a busy but harmless life of pleasure which would later be cast as a wild debauch

With Bush, the unexpected is about the only certainty, having the bravado to do what she wants rather than pandering to the public’s longing for hits

Curses on the book thief from Latin and Old English sources range from the venomous to the sadistic to the mind-twistingly gruesome

A good outcome is the tacit recognition on all sides that we currently lack the means to solve this intractable problem, says the former diplomat Kerry Brown

Games are politics you can touch, says Tim Clare, and a well-designed boardgame can provide a critical experience of society’s systems

Given a new lease of life by John le Carré’s son, George Smiley gets embroiled in a murky affair involving the Circus’s key Stasi asset and a missing Hungarian literary agent

The relationship between Joan Didion and Eve Babitz is memorably captured in Lily Anolik’s red-hot, propulsive portrait of two warring writers who were once close friends

Stalin privately admitted that his army could never have triumphed without western aid, and the convoys also indirectly helped the war in the Atlantic – but the loss of life was horrendous

A graduate from Argentina, offered a six-month fellowship in Switzerland, is appalled to meet – and have to live with - 24 versions of himself

Emmanuel Carrère knows when to let the horrors speak for themselves in his moving, hard-hitting account of the trial of the perpetrators

The vegetarian treats Ozlem Warren offers us from her Turkish kitchen might inspire a bulk-buy of filo pastry. Other recipes from Nigel Slater, Ben Shewry and Jess Elliott Dennison

A history of South America’s native heroes includes the Peruvian rebel Tupac Amaro II, the Mapuche of Chile, the escaped slaves of north-eastern Brazil and the ‘great liberator’ Simon Bolivar

Contributors include: Peter Parker, Daniel Swift, Stephen Bayley, Justin Marozzi, Andrea Wulf, Hilary Spurling, Boyd Tonkin and Graham Robb

So the silly season, the festive season when we celebrate the incarnation of the Good is looming, yet again, and…

All the previewers have been drooling lasciviously over The Day of the Jackal reboot and, having seen the first three…

‘Theatre within Theatre’ was the theme of the 2024 Wexford Festival and with Sir Charles Villiers Stanford’s The Critic, that’s…

It was 50 years ago this week, on 7 November 1974, that Lord Lucan fled what was destined to become…

How To Survive Your Mother is a play based on a memoir by political dramatist Jonathan Maitland. He portrays himself…

Decades after its inclusion in the Hippie Trail, Afghanistan is again open to tourism, according to the Taliban’s spokesman Zabihullah…

Toy Story or The Godfather? Which way would Paddington in Peru go? Would the third instalment of a much-cherished series…

A few years ago, I received an early morning phone call from Nick Cave’s former PR, berating me for not…

On 23 November, the video game World of Warcraft celebrates its 20th anniversary. That’s no small thing. By most metrics,…

‘Now, Jill, what would you like to be when you grow up?’ ‘I’d like to be an equal opportunity commissioner.’…

A Speccie reader (Greg) has asked me to say something about the expression ‘AI’, meaning artificial intelligence. The expression is…

When my youngest son Charlie was seven he was talent-spotted by a QPR scout who saw him playing football in…

Q. To my surprise I have been asked to give a eulogy at the funeral of someone I knew only…

There are many, mutually reinforcing causes of the property crisis: it is too easy to borrow; there are too many…

Garry Kasparov retired from competitive chess in 2005, but has proved that at the age of 61 he remains competitive…

Dante’s Beach, Ravenna It is strange how events elide and create a pattern whose significance remains elusive. I had just…

The whirligig of time brings in his… astonishments. Who would have thought it? Even a couple of decades ago, the…

In Competition 3374 you were invited to write an ode to autumn. There was bathos amid the beauty. I regret…

The anger management counsellor stormed through the door and shouted at me to turn the heating up. Hello to you…