Turkey
Portrait of the week
Home In a speech at the Shanghai stock exchange, George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced a feasibility study…
Battle ready
For most of history, religion and war have been the most powerful social instincts of mankind and its chief collective…
Low life
Last Saturday afternoon, in Venice, 31 Spectator readers, plus Martin Vander Weyer, the great Taki and I came aboard the…
Portrait of the week
Home Andrew Burnham described calls from Yvette Cooper, a rival candidate for the Labour leadership, for him to withdraw from…
High life
The wind is maddening and constant, and gets stronger as the sun falls below the horizon. The streets are lined…
Portrait of the week
Home A man died when 1,500 migrants tried to enter the Channel Tunnel terminal in Calais in one night. The…
‘The smugglers don’t care’
On a Greek beach, watching migrants’ dinghies arrive from Turkey
High life
I have signed an affidavit for a hearing in the High Court stating that Janan Harb was, to my knowledge,…
High life
When I founded the American Conservative 13 years ago — the purpose being to shine a light on the neocon…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said of the EU referendum: ‘If you want to be part of the government,…
Celebrations of song and humanity
‘All my life, always and in every way, I shall have one objective: the good of Hungary and the Hungarian…
Portrait of the week
Home The prospect of a parliamentary alliance between Labour and the Scottish National Party injected an element of fear into…
Portrait of the week
Home Launching the Conservative party manifesto, David Cameron, the party leader, told voters he wanted to ‘turn the good news…
Too little, too late
The atrocities suffered by an estimated one million Armenians in 1915 have been largely ignored by historians and officially denied by the Turks. It’s a centenary we can’t afford to neglect, says Justin Marozzi
Poetry in motion
Quite a hit factory these days, the Hampstead Theatre. The latest candidate for West End glory is Hugh Whitemore’s bio-drama…
The empire-builders
For Nato and the EU as much as for Putin, Ukraine is a question not of virtue but of power and land
The Turquoise Coast
Legend has it that Mark Antony considered Turkey’s Turquoise Coast so beautiful that, in about 32 bc, he gave it…
A London Christmas
I have been having my vault done over. Not, as you might think, the family strong room, but the place…
Turkey goes cold
Turkey has long been a bridge between the West and the Middle East. Its record on free speech may be…
Independence will lead to artistic ‘desecration’
Daniel Jackson foresees an impoverished cultural landscape for an independentScotland, with artists forced to do Salmond’s bidding
Dear Mary
Q. My problem is that an older friend, with whom I enjoy lengthy telephone chats, becomes furious when my call…
Portrait of the Week
Home Theresa May, the Home Secretary, said that Britons who went to Syria or Iraq to fight could be stripped…
‘It’s jihad, innit, bruv’
Meeting the British Muslims who have joined the ‘Islamic State’
Hard times for Hamas
The party is out of favour with its foreign neighbours and with ordinary Gazans
When is a protest not a protest? When we decide to call it a revolution
It’s ages since I last went on a decent demo and had a bit of a dust-up with the pigs.…
