What English cricket needs now
You couldn’t ask for a more amiable man than Rob Key to run English cricket: affable, shrewd and universally liked,…
High life
New York Our own Douglas Murray is the canary in the Bagel coal mine as of late. The left controls…
Muse and monster
Nancy Cunard’s defiance of convention began early, fuelled by bitter resentment towards her mother, says Jane Ridley
That way madness lies
There is a trend for books in which academics write personally about their engagement with literature. Examples include Lara Feigel’s…
My phone call with God
Got slightly wrecked over the bank holiday weekend and had hoped to kind of glide through the early part of…
A catalogue of invented tongues
The comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, in his stage persona as the dim-witted interviewer Ali G, once asked Noam Chomsky if…
The Spectator’s Notes
My friend, the novelist Alan Judd, emails with the right quotation for those who argue that Putin should be given…
Being reasonable isn’t easy
Some years ago there was a study at Harvard that tried to find out what people did when they held…
The rise of the wimps
I was extra pleased to have swerved the modern curse that is Wordle when I read that ‘sensitive’ words have…
An unholy affair: wooing religious voters on the cheap
It may be something in the air during the Easter period (or coincidence…?) but over the past couple of weeks,…
Let presidential candidates get older and older
Will Joe Biden be feeling the Bern in 2024? According to a memo leaked to the Washington Post, private-jet-flying socialist…
Why Putin’s ‘Satanic’ missile launch matters
In some ways, it’s a headline-writer’s dream: Putin puts his faith in Satan. In reality, it’s actually Putin’s new RS-28…
Earth Day – and the untold story of environmental progress
It’s Earth Day today, the anniversary of the 1970 event that kick-started the modern environmentalist movement. in her recent column, my…
Boris is choosing to make you poorer
If Boris Johnson is forced from office by his own MPs, partygate will only be part of the story. Another…
Is Putin in pain?
Is Vladimir Putin in pain? Until now, there has been plenty of chatter about the wellbeing of his minister of…
Why does India get a free pass for supporting Russia?
When Russia invaded Ukraine the Indian government rapidly launched ‘Operation Ganga’. This was not a military operation, nor did it…
Greenwich threatens Perrottet’s minority government
Imagine a government falling because its leader dared to assert that girls should play sport against girls. You might not…
Social trust with Covid is fragile
‘Can you please take off the face nappies?’ the workshop coordinator’s reading glasses magnify his eyes so they resemble a…
One nation under the CDC
For a brief moment, America was the cheering mission control room in every action movie. You know the one: the…
The fight for sovereignty
‘Sovereignty’ is back in mainstream headlines. Whilst it is, dare I say – nice – to have a break from the incessant…
The (not so quiet) Australians are fed up
I am fed up with non-stop griping about politicians. I am fed up with media, reporters, and commentators who are…
Supporting women in sport is a winner for Morrison
Prime Minister Scott Morrison and ex-Prime Ministers John Howard and Tony Abbott are right to support Katherine Deves, the Liberal…
Israel is an apartheid state
If you’re after evidence of apartheid in Israel, you don’t have to look very far. Amid rioting by Palestinians and…
