The Andrew debacle has blown open the royal coffers for all to see
If you’ve ever dramatically broken up with an ex, only to find, to your miserable disbelief, that they keep popping…
The joy of receiving Christmas cards – even from people I loathe
These days I barely know what my own handwriting looks like; about my friends, the knowledge is all but lost.…
HMS Prince of Wales is not yet the finished product
Huge crowds of locals, plus families and friends of the crew, greeted the return home of the nation’s flagship aircraft…
What are Ukrainian children doing in North Korea?
The regime of North Korea has continued to exploit the war in Ukraine to spread its propaganda. This week we…
The silent majority will save us
The righteous were remembered because they were few. The rest were silent. Now history is doing what history does, it’s…
The meaning of Lord Offord’s defection
Malcolm Offord has today quit Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatives to join Reform UK. The peer was unveiled at a press conference…
Scottish Tory peer joins Reform
To Falkirk, where Nigel Farage has flown ahead of the Holyrood elections – to announce another big name member of…
Paris is a city afraid
The New Year’s Eve concert on the Champs Élysées has been cancelled for security reasons. Paris was supposed to host…
Until Truss faces her enemies, she remains an irrelevance
Liz Truss is back. The ex-prime minister hosted a new current affairs show last night on Just The News, a…
Tommy Robinson wants to put ‘Christ back into Christmas’? No, thanks
So Tommy Robinson is inviting us all to have Christmas with him. The far-right activist has announced that there will…
The comedy genius of Zarah Sultana
As both of the great Spectator writers Madeline Grant and Gareth Roberts have pointed out here recently, the element of…
How to live gracefully in a ‘granny annexe’
There comes a time in every Boomer Granny’s life when she must consider the ‘granny annexe’ as a viable demesne. For Sarah Ferguson, that time has…
The strange history of one-armed vs one-legged cricket
A sheet metal worker from Shropshire who lost a leg below the knee in a tractor accident when he was…
Of course, National Conservatives are conservative
Australian Liberals just don’t understand what that means
Four funerals and a wedding
Within the space of a week, the federal Labor government managed to rack up one happy wedding, which they downplayed,…
Australian notes
I have written before about my love for rebels and outlaws. As a general rule, I have no time for…
The sheer scope of his work
When Tom Stoppard, playwright extraordinaire, was at the early height of his fame, with Glenn Close and Jeremy Irons in…
