Tariffs will bring stagflation

14 June 2025 9:00 am

Tax hikes on imports invite inflation and stagnation

Truth-telling about deaths in custody

14 June 2025 9:00 am

No evidence behind cries of genocide

Starmer strikes a pose

14 June 2025 9:00 am

Behind the moderate masks are hard-left hacks

Burke’s backyard

14 June 2025 9:00 am

Labor bans a Jewish American to pander to Hamas fans and Israel haters

Dial Q for Cold Case

14 June 2025 9:00 am

By the time this is published, your columnist will have seen the students of the National Theatre perform their chosen…

Aussie life

14 June 2025 9:00 am

Last week my contacts at Latrobe Valley Law Courts sent me a digital scan of one page of the Leongatha…

Language

14 June 2025 9:00 am

Speccie reader (Joshua) asks about the expression ‘unrealised capital gains’ and in particular that worrying adjective. Well, ‘unrealised’ has been…

Decline under Albo’s hard left

14 June 2025 9:00 am

Primaries would solve Liberal impotence

Elon Musk and the art of flattery

14 June 2025 9:00 am

Flattery will get you everywhere, as the sycophants that surround Donald Trump, Kim Jong-un, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping know.…

Spectator Competition: First thoughts

14 June 2025 9:00 am

Competition 3403 invited you to provide an extract from a prequel to a well-known work of prose or poetry. It…

Letters: How ‘Nick’ could save the Tories

14 June 2025 9:00 am

Dying wish Sir: As a 99-year-old with, presently, no intention of requesting assistance to die, I am struck by the…

The lure of St James’s

14 June 2025 9:00 am

Procrastination may be the thief of time, but in the right circumstances, it can be fun. The other day, I…

Is Xi Jinping’s time up?

14 June 2025 9:00 am

Stories about Xi Jinping’s father, Xi Zhongxun, are blowing up on social media. He died in 2002, so why the…

I’ve lost control of the kitchen

14 June 2025 9:00 am

Looking back, I can pinpoint my fatal blunder. It was lunch. It was like the West allowing Vladimir Putin to…

No. 854

14 June 2025 9:00 am

The Sizewell delusion

14 June 2025 9:00 am

The Chancellor’s promise of £14 billion for the Sizewell C nuclear power station in Suffolk is hardly news. The project…

Ingenious: the Globe’s Romeo & Juliet reviewed

14 June 2025 9:00 am

Cul-de-Sac feels like an ersatz sitcom of a kind that’s increasingly common on the fringe. Audiences are eager to see…

I love sausages!

14 June 2025 9:00 am

‘Sausages,’ my son says to me, leaning forward from the back of the car, with the authority and confidence only…

The depressing rise of ‘direct cremations’

14 June 2025 9:00 am

Twenty per cent of last year’s funerals in Britain were direct cremations – up from 14 per cent in 2020.…

How many countries have banned the burqa?

14 June 2025 9:00 am

Behind the veil How many countries have banned the burqa? At least 24 have placed some restrictions around the wearing…

My plan for Prevent

14 June 2025 9:00 am

In the autumn of 1940, British cities were being bombed every night by large aeroplanes whose provenance was apparently of…

How to ruin a city

14 June 2025 9:00 am

Why would you choose to make a city crappy? Plenty of cities don’t have much going for them. But when…

Summer opera festivals have gone Wagner mad

14 June 2025 9:00 am

Another week, another Wagner production at a summer opera festival. This never used to happen. When John Christie launched Glyndebourne…

How to game the social housing system

14 June 2025 9:00 am

Westminster council has announced that every single social housing tenant in the borough will receive lifetime tenancies. No test of…

Why OnlyFans has young British women in its grip

14 June 2025 9:00 am

The porn star Bonnie Blue offers a straightforward explanation for her decision to join OnlyFans. She was in her early…