On matters maritime
The Greenland shark has to be one of the most fascinating creatures of which you’ve probably never heard. Growing sometimes…
Latest crime fiction
Wolfgang Herrndorf’s Sand (Pushkin Press, £14.99) is set in 1972 and moves back and forth between a North African city…
Tim’s anti-White Australia Policy
Race Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane’s latest push to embed grievance-mongering identity politics at the heart of the nation’s institutions threatens…
Bob Carr has no shame
Does he have no sense of shame? Is there nothing he won’t do to defame Israel, or the local Jewish…
True selves
News of a world-first designation of a gender-free baby in Canada will come as no surprise, but should come with…
Aux bien pensants
Boxers, Accountants & Emperors In cleansing the Liberal Party, their anti-corruption consultant has scored another victory. The latest culprit is…
Three crises
Commenting on Tony Abbott’s recent Perth speech in Quadrant, Keith Windschuttle identified three crises ‘which, taken together, represent a national…
The Battle for Britain
What to read next: The Battle for Britain | The Battle for Britain | The Battle for Britain | The…
Low life
The hen party was seated at an outside restaurant table under the plane trees when I arrived. They sat with…
Pride of lions
‘Are they all gay too?’ asked my husband, waving the Sunday Telegraph with its headline ‘Pride of Lions’. He had…
Nadine Garner
Three women who shared a flat as university freshers in 1983 and have maintained their friendship through the years are…
The Taylor report is wrong to suggest cash in hand is fundamentally dishonest
Would a cashless world be a -better place, morally or fiscally? -Matthew Taylor, in his relatively uncontroversial review of work…
Labour’s middle-class problem
Be fair. Theresa May’s plan actually half-worked. No, there was a plan. I know the consensus now seems to be…
A vicious reaction to a very bad word
Having a nigger in the woodpile and a skeleton in the closet are closely related problems, although subtly different. In…
Queen’s gambit
International master Andrew Martin is the head of the English Chess Federation Academy. He is well qualified for this post,…
Candid camera?
Channel 4’s Catching a Killer offered the rare TV spectacle these days of a middle-aged white male copper leading a…
Real life
‘What do you think it means?’ I asked the builder boyfriend as we stood in front of the sign. A…
Portrait of the week
Home In her first big speech since the general election, Theresa May, the Prime Minister, said: ‘I say to the…
The Spectator’s Notes
For some time now, banks have wielded hamfistedly the concept of the ‘politically exposed person’. They have withdrawn bank accounts…
Flogging a dead horse republic
Surely the Australian Republican Movement and Labor realise that they’re flogging a horse that was pronounced dead almost 20 years ago by the…
The Clementine-shaped difference between “speaking out” and hate
The one-woman woe wagon has arrived to deliver a request on this fine Friday. Clementine Ford would like our sympathy in return for all the love, tenderness, respect and heartfelt compassion…
Blind to gender – and the facts
What more evidence do we need that ‘the patriarchy’ is a myth, than the recent findings of the government’s very…
Vaping, Big Public Health and the new McCarthyism
One of the more emotive arguments thrown up against e-cigarettes and vaping is that multinational tobacco companies, including Philip Morris…
