The cult of the Greens: when friendship collides with ideology
I was recently cancelled by a long-term friend for having the temerity to support the State of Israel. The friend,…
Longlegs shows us what the future of horror could be
Unless you count plastic, comically oversized bodily features, and screaming children, there’s not much connecting the Barbie movie with Osgood…
Trump swallows universe
One of the most important Australian novels of the last few decades is Boy Swallows Universe, the semi-autobiographical debut by…
How the markets reacted to Trump’s assassination attempt
Market reactions to the assassination attempt in Pennsylvania represent, according to taste, rational bets on the significantly increased likelihood of…
How to drown your sorrows
Age. At the Spectator party last week, the editor asked me how long I had been attending the festivity. I…
Is Donald Trump a ‘badass’?
Logan Paul, a wrestler with 23 million YouTube subscribers, called Donald Trump’s immediate reaction to his shooting ‘the most badass…
David Lammy’s Trump problem
There’s no shortage of people who have spent recent years comparing Donald Trump with Adolf Hitler. Among other places, the…
Impossible to doze through, sadly: Twisters reviewed
Twisters is an action-disaster film that follows ‘storm-chasers’ and is so relentless in its own pursuit of tornadoes that plot,…
Are the Rees-Moggs ready for their new reality?
I felt slightly anxious for Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg when I read he’d agreed to have a reality show made about…
Dear Mary: Help! My teeth are too white
Q. I ride a bike from Chiswick to the City each morning. It is a ten-mile journey that takes 45…
Up, up and down again: my attempt to balloon the Atlantic
I was hoping to fly the first hydrogen balloon across the Atlantic and had been waiting for a year to…
Do men and women need different podcasts?
Do men and women need different podcasts? The notion goes against the unisex, every-sex, what-is-sex-anyway culture we have come to…
My father was the best of England
I always think of my father at this time of year. In particular, I go back to the summer of…
Are kids’ games under threat?
We hear a lot about the rights of the child, but the first I heard of the child’s right to…
Peter Hitchens: I invented the ‘left-wing face’
Sitting ducks Sir: James Heale is right to highlight the important question about Rishi Sunak’s replacement (‘Who will lead the…
Hard to love – but Shirley Manson is terrific: Garbage, at Usher Hall, reviewed
There’s nothing quite like the drama of a prodigal’s return. ‘I’ve been singing in this venue since I was ten…
‘Nationalise Google!’: the techno-optimists hoping to save the world
Future House is a weird private members’ club. There’s a mattress on the floor for napping, a bathtub designed to…
Keep Michelin men out of our hotels!
It’s probably escaped most people’s attention, what with the football, the election, the Ukraine war, the horrors of Gaza, the…
Trump is stronger than ever
‘You’re gonna be so blessed,’ said Pastor James Roemke, doing a pretty good Donald Trump impersonation in the warm-up to…
Why Trump forgave J.D. Vance
It shows a remarkable level of confidence from Donald Trump that he’s chosen for his running-mate the man who once…
Can Starmer control his party?
Labour MPs ought to have been jubilant when they gathered for their weekly all-party parliamentary meeting on Monday. Most were…
In praise of Pat McFadden
There is a small section of the Labour party which I greatly admire – those on the party’s right, often…
The curious life of a foreign minister’s wife
The Polish constitution delineates no role for the foreign minister’s wife. In fact, the foreign minister’s wife is not mentioned…
