Brexit talks resume despite ‘critical issues’
Brexit talks are back on between the UK and EU after a brief break. After both sides paused talks due…
Covid’s endgame
The Pfizer vaccine’s approval by UK regulators marked what many hope is the beginning of the end of the coronavirus…
Why lockdown scepticism is growing in Japan
‘We all know it’s bull and we’ve had enough.’ This is not the kind of language I have come to…
The reef is fine but academic freedom remains in peril
The first images I saw of the Great Barrier Reef were in 1980s television news reports warning that the crown-of-thorns…
The Greens: we’re washed up
Can I interest anyone in a festive tea-towel? The Australian Greens are flogging a new range optimistically titled ‘legends’ featuring…
Sco Mo, the Chamberlain of the culture wars
During the second world war, a group of English-speaking Japanese female radio broadcasters, collectively known as ‘Tokyo Rose’, spread Japanese…
Brown Study
The Spectator Australia Diplomatic Research Unit has laboured away in secret for years on projects too sensitive to mention in…
Media Notes
Where are all the journalists? Please could someone just clarify a point of law for me: is theft no longer…
In the land of the blind
Carter William Page, born in 1971, is the former United States Navy officer with personal, business, scholarly and government connections…
Gary Garrels
Let me take you down the strange rabbit hole of contemporary art museum culture. The senior curator of painting and…
Richard Tognetti
There’s no doubt about the Australian Chamber Orchestra; full of confidence it is sailing into 2021 with its most ambitious…
Kiwi Life / Language
David Cohen I often used to ask myself what the ultimate secret is of playing great chess, and I suppose…
This will hurt
County Lines is the kind of social realism that the British do so well, if not too well. In other…
The Tavistock is a national scandal
How noble of the British Library to have apologised to the family of the late Poet Laureate Ted Hughes for…
Victorian values
Blackeyed Theatre is another victim of the virus. Its production of Jane Eyrewas midway through a UK tour, and due…
A macabre legend
The problem with telling stories about Harvard is that Harvard, if it teaches anything these days, teaches distrust of stories.…
Reliving the golden moment
What caught my eye towards the end of Look Again was this conversation between David Bailey and the shoe designer…
