Battle for Britain
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Brown study
It is good to see that proposals for electoral reform keep coming in. Some of them are designed to prevent…
John Armstrong
‘What is art for?’ is a question too rarely asked. The question is posed, and answered, in the book Art…
Remind you of anyone? How Theresa May is morphing into Gordon Brown
Standing outside No. 10, our newly chosen — though not elected — Prime Minister decided to address the country directly.…
The honour that truly stinks came from Corbyn
Another honours list comes and goes and yet again my name is not on it. I don’t think either the…
to 2270: Hard
Seven unclued lights were names of VERSE-MEN (22) minus one letter: VI(R)GIL (1A), BRO(O)KE (15A), BRID(G)ES (16), DON(N)E (9), S(P)ENDER…
Don’t grouse about grouse
The vast Bubye Valley Conservancy in southern Zimbabwe is slightly larger than County Durham, as well as much hotter and…
Olympic Notebook
How strange it is to be watching the Olympic Games on television. No wonder people have such rum ideas of…
The power of music and storytelling
Madeleine Thien’s third novel, recently long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, begins in Vancouver with Marie, who, like the author,…
2273: Numbers
Clockwise round the perimeter from 3 run the titles of three items (1, 6, 3, 1, 4, 2, 1, 4,…
Team Australia, in Rio
It has all the makings of a classic feel-good movie. A selection of young Aussie girls from a variety of…
Leakphobia
What could a trendy, tattooed, godless leftie in the hippest bit of Melbourne possibly have in common with an Isis-admiring…
World Vision’s blind spot
‘I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here,’ said Captain Louis Renault as he collected his…
Cultural notes
The year 2015 was marked by a fit of progressive hysteria over our so-called ‘rape culture’. Widely circulated and grossly…
Clinton or Trump?
For Trump: Conrad Black, former proprietor of The Spectator, and Bob Tyrell, editor of the American Spectator. For Clinton: the…
An evening with Charles Moore
Join us for an exclusive subscriber-only event on 10 October: an evening with Margaret Thatcher’s authorised biographer, Charles Moore, in…
Gravetye Manor
Join us for a special four-course Spectator lunch, a tasting of English sparkling wine and a tour of the world-famous…
Summertime
In Competition No. 2960 you were invited to submit a poem on the theme of summer in which the last…
Portrait of the week
Home The government floated the idea that individuals might receive payments in areas where fracking was approved, or where housing…
High life
Gstaad ‘He flies through the air with the greatest of ease, that daring young man on the flying trapeze.’…
Diary
Walking along the Brighton seafront, I was struck by posters advertising endless tribute acts; among them Suspiciously Elvis, the Small…
Honorificabilitudinity
My husband told me with glee that Nicholas Byfield had a great big stone ‘like flint’ in his bladder, weighing…
Barometer
The end of an emperor — 82-year-old Emperor Akihito of Japan has announced that he wants to abdicate, partly, he…
Dorset’s winning formula
Dorset Opera seems to receive far less coverage than the rest of the country-house summer shows, although it is in…
Rome’s border policy
Whether the EU commission knows what is good for it or not — always a tricky call — post-Brexit Britain…
