Bad publicity
Whatever calamitous infelicities David Beckham did or did not email to his publicist, few will doubt that he has lived…
Let’s not dance
Why will people simply not believe you when you tell them that you don’t want to dance? Their reactions mimic…
Corbyn’s blueprint
Twenty years ago Venezuela was one of the richest countries in the world. Now it is one of the poorest.…
Mick Jagger’s lost memoir
Ask any publisher of popular non–fiction anywhere in the world which book they would most like to sign, and it…
Bye bye, Buller
RIP the Bullingdon Club, 1780–2017. It isn’t quite dead — but it is down to its last two members. That’s…
It’s all too personal
When I was little I owned a set of pencils that had my name engraved on them. I didn’t have…
‘Isis? Bomb those suckers’
These are the last days of the ‘caliphate’. The place Isis made their capital, Raqqa, in Syria, is encircled and…
‘Isis? Bomb those suckers’
These are the last days of the ‘caliphate’. The place Isis made their capital, Raqqa, in Syria, is encircled and…
The Q&A sharia shout-out
The cool and hip, if occasionally shouty, face of young Islam in Australia, Yassmin Abdel-Magied, opines that if sharia law has got some…
Chekists aren’t our chums
BOSTON, UNITED STATES — Am I nuts? I feel like I might be nuts. On the one hand, unlike Tony…
Rebooting democracy
Like prophets of old, McLuhan’s warnings “the media is the message” has gone as unheeded as the Buggles observation that…
The Libs go AWOL in the battle of ideas
Cory may have abandoned us and Pauline might be nicking our base from under us, but at least we die-hard…
That dinner, that beat up, that … yawn
‘Notorious controversialists make controversial remarks at controversial fundraiser’ is the lamest news story in a year already chock full of lame news stories. It…
Do we have the faith to change the world?
Martin Scorsese’s Silence is not the kind of film that aspires to popularity. Partly this is because, as a viewing experience, it…
The myth of white male supremacy
The contemporary Left has often embraced morally repugnant policies that are not truly socially inclusive, but that embrace a collection of separate identity…
Meryl menaced by the Trump terror. Again…
A few weeks after her moral preening and posturing at the Golden Globes, when she portrayed herself and her fellow jet-setting…
Victoria: elder abuse, euthanasia and the burden of proof
Anyone who cannot see that coercion and abuse of the elderly and infirmed confirms that assisted suicide and euthanasia can…
Why the feminist movement is failing women
Watching the women’s marches around the globe, manifesting themselves around Washington DC on the day of the US Presidential Inauguration,…
The real story of the Q Society dinner
Jacqueline Maley’s report of Thursday night’s Sydney Q Society dinner published on the Sydney Morning Herald’s website on Friday has…
An inconvenient record
I’ll tell you a tale and it won’t take me long, all climate alarmists are bastards. Not only do they…
Theresa May’s racing certainty
There are few things more predictable than people talking about the unpredictability of politics. We live in an age, we…
The dishonouring of David Beckham
How will we remember him, do you suppose? If you’re a committed football fan, possibly for that exquisite chip from…
The Spectator’s Notes
As we have been reminded this week, the most famous words (apart from ‘Order, order’) ever uttered by a Speaker…
Toff luck
F. Scott Fitzgerald got it wrong; it’s not the rich who are different from you and me — it’s the…
Javid’s home truths
Just before Christmas, Sajid Javid performed a ritual he has observed twice a year throughout his adult life: he read…
