Busy Lizzie
Elizabeth the First is a ten-part American podcast series that isn’t about Elizabeth I at all. The assumption of its…
Bad education
King Hamlin is a shock-horror drama about gang crime in London. Hamlin, aged 17, has left school without learning any…
Man up
Sunday’s SAS Rogue Heroes – about the founding of perhaps Britain’s most famous regiment – began with a revealing variation…
The Battle for Britain: Michael Heath
The post The Battle for Britain | 5 November 2022 appeared first on The Spectator. Got something to add? Join…
The eyes have it
Do you remember Osvaldo Golijov? Two decades ago he was classical music’s Next Big Thing: a credible postmodernist with a…
Prepare for lift-off
The first time I saw Franz Ferdinand was at the sadly lost Astoria, just after the release of their first…
Is now the time to make peace in Ukraine?
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, British press and public opinion has been firmly behind Volodymyr Zelensky. But is…
Could Gretchen Whitmer lose in Michigan?
The gubernatorial showdown in Michigan has quickly become one of the most exciting races heading into the 2020 midterm elections.…
The more things change…
In Moscow 1992, according to former ABC journalist in Soviet Russia Monica Attard, ‘the cost of everything – a loaf…
The Midterms: America faces its Litmus Election
In the 14th Century, Spanish chemist Arnaldus de Villa Nova discovered that litmus, a compound derived from natural bacteria, would…
Xi’s nuclear warnings are a coup for Scholz
Checks and balances on Vladimir Putin don’t come from inside Russia. The people around him supported forced mobilisation, pushed his…
All change at CCHQ
The winds of change are blowing through the corridors of 4 Matthew Parker Street. Having turfed team Truss out of…
North Korea’s nuclear ambitions are growing faster than ever
While some people start the day with a bowl of cereal, North Korea chose to greet Thursday with the launch…
Meet Israel’s 21-year-old TikTok firebrand
Hadar Muchtar is angry because Benjamin Netanyahu has won a sixth term as prime minister of Israel and she hasn’t…
Sources: Trump 2024 is staffing up — names revealed
Sources: Trump 2024 team forming After Axios’s report that Trump is set to announce a 2024 run on November 14…
Germany needs to break its dependence on China
Back in February, Olaf Scholz gave one of the most important speeches in his country’s post-Cold War history. In it, the German…
Don’t condemn the Church of England for its stance on gay marriage
The Bishop of Oxford, Steven Croft, has come out in favour of gay marriage – the first senior bishop to…
Brexit isn’t to blame for the economic collapse
We can be grateful for small mercies. 4 November 2022 will go down as the day when a presenter on…
Poll: voters hope Matt Hancock loses in the jungle
The new series of I’m a Celebrity airs on Sunday and the producers have done a decent job of making…
Why Albanians come to Britain
A friend of mine works in a surgery in London where lots of asylum seekers go for treatment. The caseload…
Who tried to assassinate Imran Khan? And why?
At the end of August I warned in The Spectator that, in Pakistan politics, ‘death by assassination is always a…
