All is not well in Macron’s France
The relationship entertained by French elites to their homeland is very different from their English counterparts. ‘England is perhaps the…
Academic freedom is being stifled at Imperial College London
We have become used to the erosion of academic freedom in the humanities and social sciences. It is no longer…
How Britain’s economy might bounce back in 2023
Whatever happened to the economic boom that was supposed to follow the Covid pandemic? The 2020s, some argued, would be…
Why Britain will feel the cold more than Iceland this winter
A winter of discontent is underway in Europe. Germany, France and Britain are the biggest economies in Europe: all face…
A ‘borderless world’? Not for carbon!
The European Union has long been known as a collection of bad ideas. On brand, it has decided to become…
Australia’s democratic backslide
Democracy is the backbone of the Australian way of life. By global standards, Australia’s electoral and democratic institutions are at…
Bin chickens chow down on cane toads
Cane toads have long been painted as an existential threat to Queensland’s ecosystem. Since their deliberate introduction in 1935 by…
Australia and a Pacific ‘shape up’ in 2023
This year, the Pacific Islands clearly featured much more vividly in Australian politics. Near-state collapse in the Solomon Islands, matched…
Why does Jamie Oliver always get an easy ride?
There are many annoying things about the celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, but none of them grates my gears as much…
Diversity, nepo-babies and The Spectator
It’s a bit of a late entry for phrase of the year, but the term ‘nepo babies’ has captured attention…
Could the West have done more to help Russia?
At New Year 1992, the USSR ceased to exist and Russia and the other Soviet republics became independent states. Western…
The Recruit might be the worst show on Netflix
The Top Gun series received generous support from the US Navy because it was such an effective recruitment tool. I…
The Raj revision: why historians are thinking again about British rule in India
Is there anything good to be said of British rule over India? The verdict of many politicians, museum curators, TV…
What should we go to war over?
Foreign Minister Penny Wong went to Beijing to meet with her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi to mark the 50th anniversary…
Did the Victorian elections ignore the Constitution and Human Rights Charter?
When the Bracks government in Victoria established an Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission in 2006 it bragged that it…
Childish China threatens Taiwan (again)
China has decided to finish the year by antagonising Taiwan. Reports indicate that 71 planes and 7 military ships were…
The Twitter Files reveal an unholy alliance
With the recent release of the “Twitter Files,” we’ve learned what so many of us already knew. Or I should…
Putin’s unholy alliance and the sins of the Russian Orthodox church
Travel the length and breadth of Russia – as you could fairly easily before the outbreak of war last February…
A Christmas tree vs. the fringe gender activists
Authorities in the little town of Dedham Massachusetts went into damage control this week after abandoning the town’s decades-long tradition of displaying…
The King has inherited his mother’s sense of duty
For the first King’s speech since 1951, the King might have been forgiven for striking a downbeat note in his…
In praise of the Church of England
The Church of England, like all churches, has always struggled with the tension between the affirmation or assimilation of culture,…
Christmas after our darkest hour (1940)
Below is The Spectator’s leading article from Christmas 1940, which you can find on our fully-digitised archive. We have reached…
My Christmas wish
To my fellow Australians… During this Christmas festival may you be enveloped with the love of family and friends. May…
Post-Covid and extremely merry
Is it just me or is everyone getting pretty merry about the festive season this year? First, we had the…
Marxism withers without a victim
‘Religion is the opium of the people,’ is the famous Karl Marx put-down, which he wrote in 1843 and which…
