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Features
Madeline Grant
Perhaps the most traumatic part of attending an American wedding – much worse than the bridesmaids coming in the wrong…
Features
Gavin Mortimer
This Saturday is the centenary of the birth of one of France’s most controversial writers. Jean Raspail, who died in…
Features
Paul Wood
Syria’s Alawite communities are in the grip of a fear that their women and girls could be kidnapped and held…
Notes on...
Steve Morris
Worse for drink, and lonely in his Hollywood apartment, F. Scott Fitzgerald sat down to write a postcard. He began,…
Features
Tim Shipman
It was the chronicle of a death foretold. Last year Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, drafted a memo…
Features
John Connolly
For Keir Starmer, it seems everything is going south. His MPs are openly rebelling, his advisers are mutinous and it…
Features
Michael Gove
It is the most civilised way to travel anywhere in the kingdom. Which is why I am so distraught that…
Features
Philip Hensher
The usual piece about public libraries runs like this. Public libraries are for ‘more than just books’. They are in…
Features
Kate Andrews
Manhattan The Friday before New York’s Democratic mayoral primary election, the 33-year-old candidate Zohran Mamdani walked the entire length of…
The Week
Diary
William Boyd
The late John Updike once wrote an amusing article about signing books. This wasn’t at some literary event with a…
Leading article
The Spectator
Labour swept to power on a pledge to ‘save the NHS’. As shadow health secretary, Wes Streeting said he would…
Letters
The Spectator
Movers and shakers Sir: As a parish priest of 35 years, I read Francis Pike’s account of his supernatural experiences…
Ancient and modern
Peter Jones
Now that new drugs have allowed the government’s Fat Controller to celebrate a nation of skinnies – let us hope…
Columnists
Any other business
Martin Vander Weyer
I’m fresh out of advice for those now leaving university and wondering how on earth they’re going to make a…
Columns
Matthew Parris
Couldn’t we just skip to the end? I’m old enough to have seen this so often: must I sit through…
Columns
Mary Wakefield
It’s disorienting but satisfying that Labour now accepts that Asian grooming gangs exist. Some of my left-identified friends are even…
The Spectator's Notes
Charles Moore
There probably never has been a time when a governing party much liked its MPs. If you are on a…
Columns
James Heale
For the past year, Nigel Farage has served as the great pacesetter of British politics. Reform UK has shot to…
Columns
Rod Liddle
A small yield nuclear weapon, such as the American W89, dropped on Glastonbury in late June would immediately remove from…
Columns
Douglas Murray
Anyone who has visited Canada or Australia in recent years might have noticed an interesting new tradition. This is the…
Books
More from Books
Amanda Craig
A struggling widow hooks up with a serial confidence trickster in a novel as witty and ruthlessness as its Georgian setting
More from Books
Christopher Bray
As the Manhattan attorney in 1987’s Fatal Attraction, Douglas epitomises the alarm many men felt for women’s new-found openness about sexuality
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Hugh Thomson
Even in the past century the animal was considered so exotic that many doubted its very existence
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Emily Rhodes
Mourning the loss of their parents, two brothers succumb to listlessness and lethargy in a sweltering London gripped by Olympic fever
More from Books
Anne Sebba
In a thought-provoking family history, the BBC journalist addresses questions of identity – and to what extent we are products of our forebears
More from Books
Charlotte Hobson
Two former Izvestiya journalists describe how all but the bravest in the media have crumpled under pressure to toe the Putinist line
More from Books
Nicholas Farrell
The once sullen, bullied girl, abandoned by her father as a baby, found iron in her soul and refused to become a victim
Lead book review
Dorian Lynskey
The bomb was necessary to the Allies, but still horrified those responsible for its development – many of them refugees from Nazism
Arts
Australian Arts
Peter Craven
Barry Jones likes to allude to the fact that John Adams declared that he had to study agriculture and warfare…
Dance
Rupert Christiansen
It’s all very well for people like me to sneer at dance makers for drawing on classic rock as a…
Exhibitions
Martin Gayford
Slowly the canvas was unfurled across the concrete floor of a warehouse on an industrial estate in Suffolk. On and…
Pop
Graeme Thomson
There is no higher calling than making great pop music, and no mechanism by which such an achievement can be…
Pop
Ivo Delingpole
Everyone who wasn’t at Glastonbury this year knows exactly what it was like: a seething mass of hatred and rabid…
Opera
Richard Bratby
King Arkel, in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, is almost blind, and he rules over a kingdom of darkness. Debussy’s score…
Television
James Delingpole
Marge Simpson is dead. But does anyone care? I’ve written loads of pieces over the years about the genius of…
Theatre
Lloyd Evans
A Moon for the Misbegotten is a dream-like tragedy by Eugene O’Neill set on a barren farm in Connecticut. Phil…
Arts feature
Isabel Hardman
If you’re looking for an early example of Tom Stuart-Smith’s work, you’d have to go to a car park to…
Cinema
Deborah Ross
Midway through Jurassic World Rebirth the scientist character played by Jonathan Bailey, whom we can all immediately spot as a…
Life
Aussie Life
Michael Scammell
Tony Abbott has written Australia, a personal take on our history, focused on the positives. But this is a mug’s…
Aussie Life
Kel Richards
A short time ago I was chatting with the former deputy prime minister of Australia John Anderson about the sort…
Food
Tanya Gold
Town – well-named, it has vitality – is on the ragged part of Drury Lane WC2 near the Majestic Wine…
Competition
Lucy Vickery
For Competition 3406 you were invited to cast a well-known fictional or non-fictional character, living or dead, in the role…
Mind your language
Dot Wordsworth
‘What larks!’ exclaimed my husband archly, assuming that a connection between personal independence payments and Pip in Great Expectations would…
No sacred cows
Toby Young
Earlier this week, GB News again found itself at odds with Ofcom. The channel had written to the broadcast regulator…
Sport
Roger Alton
A state-school cricket competition announced last week with a final at Lord’s is such a good idea you wonder why…
The turf
Robin Oakley
I have always enjoyed Royal Windsor Racecourse, as it styles itself. It may not have quite so many dignitaries popping…
No life
Lloyd Evans
Leaving home is the best way to find out who you are. In my case, it’s a muddle. Welsh dad.…
Real life
Melissa Kite
‘Right, we’re going to book into Pauline’s B&B and give her a four-star rating and that will drop her down…
Dear Mary
Mary Killen
Q. I had the same Spanish housekeeper for 25 years and was devoted to her, and she to me. She…