Should Italy’s killer bear be sentenced to death?
The female bear that mauled to death a male jogger in the Italian Alps on 5th April was captured this…
The EU must tread carefully in its AI crackdown
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has surged in popularity in recent months. ChatGPT alone has swelled to more than 100 million users…
Has Germany truly come to terms with its Nazi past?
Germany is often lauded for the way it confronts its own past. The Holocaust, the murder of six million Jewish…
Art is eating itself
In his curious little book about Flying Saucers, Carl Jung took an interesting detour into the psychology of modern art. His contemporaries, he said,…
Jacinda Ardern’s disappearing act
Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern bade farewell to parliament a few weeks ago. Ardern had resigned as PM in…
Doesn’t America deserve better than a Trump-Biden rematch?
Joe Biden is considering making his re-election announcement as early as Tuesday. After months of teasing his inevitable run with…
Self-obsession will be the death of music
Though I’m not the most avid fan of her oeuvre, I was cheered recently to see that Ellie Goulding wanted…
The endless wind drought crippling renewables
The spectre of power failure is haunting Europe as Britain and Germany demonstrate that modern societies can’t run on wind…
Barry Humphries and his Dame
Several years ago, I found one of my parents doubled over in laughter – barely containing their brimming tears and…
Will eco-activists disrupt the London Marathon?
Ever since Monty Python created their internecine, bickering and ridiculous groups of freedom fighters – the People’s Front of Judea and the…
RIP Barry Humphries
It was not just Barry Humphries who died on Saturday. It was that towering skewerer of pomposity and humbug, and gate-crasher of Royal boxes,…
Could the Blinken revelations lead to Biden’s impeachment?
What’s that flapping sound? Could it be the sound of chickens coming home to roost? Or maybe it’s just the grating…
Why does no one dress for dinner at Claridge’s any more?
Barry Humphries has died at the age of 89. This was his last diary for The Spectator in our 2022…
Covid’s origins and a disturbing Nature study
Ever since the world was forced into lockdown in March 2020, the question of where and how Covid-19 appeared has…
Fentanyl is wreaking havoc in America
I stepped through a hole in the chainlink fence surrounding Portland’s O’Bryant Square and saw four people nodded out and…
The trouble with The Rest is Politics podcast
You have probably already heard of The Rest is Politics, which consistently tops the podcast charts. You have certainly already…
Macron has left Marseille at the mercy of violent drug gangs
Five months and counting until France hosts the Rugby World Cup. For England supporters, the tournament kicks off at the…
Matt Walsh unmasks the vicious Left
Online activists are the new revolutionaries and, as with their historical counterparts, they are becoming radicalised and violent in pursuit…
Daniel Andrews’ greatest hits
A broken record couldn’t be so familiar. In front of the cameras, the Victorian Premier’s song is now a chorus…
Remember Menzies’ ‘forgotten people’
Another prominent former Liberal Party leader has warned the party against any further ‘shift to left’ calling instead for a…
Watershed
What delicious timing. In the same news cycle that Peter Dutton announces the re-launch of the Coalition and his determination…
