Undone by love

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

On the Whitsun weekend of 1935 an art student called Denton Welch was knocked off his bicycle by a car…

The real reason Ukip are tearing each other apart

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

If the British establishment really wants to troll Ukip, then I suppose it ought to give Douglas Carswell a knighthood…

Trump’s show of strength to Moscow

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

Donald Trump has not lost his capacity to surprise: few would have bet on him starting his address to Congress…

The Spectator’s Notes

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

Chief Constable Simon Bailey, who heads Operation Hydrant, the police investigation of ‘non-recent’ child abuse cases, now says that paedophiles…

The terrible truth

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

Here’s the bad news. One day you or someone like you will be shopping in a mall or enjoying a…

Let my daughter work

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

Freud said ‘Love and work… work and love, that’s all there is.’ And ‘Love and work are the cornerstones of…

Flock horror

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

Pity the poor sheep. Every other animal has its champions. There are fox fanatics, dog obsessives, campaigners for cat welfare.…

Memory games

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

Poor Paul Nuttall. He seemed to have everything a cheeky by-election victor needed: the outsider vim, the accent, the cap.…

Diary

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

A fortnight ago I got a taste of what being far too famous might feel like. A leak that I’m…

One Nation’s chief recruiter

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

Most of the media just don’t ‘get’ Tony Abbott. They think he’s critical of Malcolm Turnbull because he wants his…

La la Libs

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

The commentariat are almost unanimous that Tony Abbott should not have launched our book Making Australia Right: Where to From…

Sound storms

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

Nothing pleased Iannis Xenakis more than a great big rattling storm. The sound of a thunderclap would have him running…

Sound storms

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

Nothing pleased Iannis Xenakis more than a great big rattling storm. The sound of a thunderclap would have him running…

Australian notes

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

  ‘Malcolm Turnbull is Jewish.’ This was one of the newer Palestinian banners held high at the anti-Israel, anti-Netanyahu rally…

Brown study

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

All good things come to an end and in my case I am rapidly coming to the end of one…

A field guide to our doomed liberal elite

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

The latest and perhaps most damaging accusation to be levelled at Donald Trump is that he likes his steaks well-done…

Star power

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

The ongoing war between Donald Trump and the Hollywood A-list has entered a new and unpredictable phase. Celebrity criticism of…

Star power

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

The ongoing war between Donald Trump and the Hollywood A-list has entered a new and unpredictable phase. Celebrity criticism of…

Let my daughter work

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

Freud said ‘Love and work… work and love, that’s all there is.’ And ‘Love and work are the cornerstones of…

Flock horror

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

Pity the poor sheep. Every other animal has its champions. There are fox fanatics, dog obsessives, campaigners for cat welfare.…

Memory games

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

Poor Paul Nuttall. He seemed to have everything a cheeky by-election victor needed: the outsider vim, the accent, the cap.…

Clinton email tactics hit Queensland

2 March 2017 12:46 pm

When you have a vested interest to hide and skeletons in the closet, using your own private email account and…

It’s not the just Liberals. It’s the political class

2 March 2017 7:14 am

It is certainly convenient and natural for media and political insiders to focus on the personal conflict between Abbott and…

Tony Abbott must return

1 March 2017 7:34 pm

If the country is to be saved from impending disaster, Tony Abbott, like General MacArthur must return. (This will probably be…

18c: they just don’t get it

1 March 2017 4:07 pm

The failure by the Coalition-dominated parliamentary review to recommend changes to Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act is another sign…