After half a billion years, are sharks heading for extinction?
Studies suggest that a third of coral reef sharks and more than half of pelagic sharks may be wiped out as a result of overfishing, habitat loss and pollution
A piece of Mars to toy with
Lunar souvenirs are slumping, but Martian rocks are soaring as today’s super-rich fight to get the best fragments from space on their desks
The strange potency of cheap perfume
Adelle Stripe has constructed a memoir around 18 key fragrances, but it is the Body Shop’s cheery Dewberry that evokes her worst teenage experience
The plain-speaking bloke from Warrington who painted only for himself
Born in 1932, Eric Tucker created his art not for exhibition or in pursuit of fame but simply because he felt compelled to do so
The pointlessness of the German Peasants’ War – except in Marxist ideology
The short-lived 16th-century revolt resolved absolutely nothing, but it loomed large in Engels’s thought and in the official DDR interpretation of history
The DOGE-esque plan to save $90 billion
We have been asking for some Trumpian politics, and perhaps we have found it in a press conference yesterday. One…
TikTok, J.D. Vance’s new sherpa assignment
Fresh off guiding a series of President Trump’s nominees through the high-wire act of the cabinet approval process in the…
The call that shames the pro-Palestine movement
Some of us switch off when we hear a ‘loony left’ story. We might cock an eyebrow at the latest…
Can a second Kursk offensive give Ukraine bargaining power?
In theory, the Kursk salient is one of the most militarily insignificant fronts of Putin’s war on Ukraine. However, war…
Can Ukraine stop the bombings at its draft offices?
On 1 February, a young man walked into a military enlistment office in Rivne with a bomb in his backpack.…
The lesson Starmer should take from Trump’s foreign policy
Donald Trump has this week shown that he cares more about economic interests over inherited commitments – even to allies. By…
Soap operas have lost the plot
Soap bombshells are nothing new, but the land of light TV entertainment was rocked by some real-life drama this week:…
Sturgeon passes SNP election vetting
To Scotland, where the SNP is hard at work vetting its candidates for the 2026 Holyrood poll. But in typical…
Trump’s sanctions will hit the ICC hard
Donald Trump’s decision to impose sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) could sound the death knell of this important judicial…
Ed Miliband’s growth U-turn
Another day, another Labour U-turn. Now it’s Ed Miliband in the spotlight, after the Energy Secretary appeared to row back…
Lego isn’t homophobic
To the surprise of millions of children today, and to their parents who loved the toy when they were youngsters…
Macron needs to find his inner Trump
If a week is a long time in politics then eight years is an eternity. Just ask Donald Trump and…
Can Hamas ever be defeated?
No matter how many times it is vanquished or decisively discredited, ‘Palestinianism’ persists as an ideology unwilling to die. Rooted…
Marianne Faithfull and my truth about female beauty
The death of Marianne Faithfull last week at the age of 78 has got me thinking again about female beauty.…
Voters want Trump, but with an Aussie accent
Conservatives are crying out online for Opposition Leader Peter Dutton to go ‘full Trump’, or at least ‘a little bit…
Reform tops Spectator poll tracker
Nigel Farage’s Reform party are now out in front at the top of The Spectator data hub’s poll tracker. The latest update…
China now rapidly falling behind
China’s autocratic President Xi Jinping has been reported many times as believing that America is in terminal decline. This has…
Why wasn’t the Southport killer stopped?
Now that the Southport killer Axel Rudakubana has been sentenced for his horrific crimes, we can try to understand how…
Kemi Badenoch is leading her party in the right direction on migration
Since becoming Conservative leader in November, Kemi Badenoch has taken a restrained approach to saying what she’d do if she…
Watch: Tory MP blasts ‘secretive’ assisted dying process
Back to the assisted dying bill, which has been at the centre of controversy since it came into being. As…
