Ukraine

Must we live in perpetual fear of being named and shamed?

6 January 2024 9:00 am

Current wars, Brexit and Trumpism have sucked us into a vortex of outrage and disgrace, says David Keen – while advertisers make us feel guilty for being too fat or just poor

The US Senate is playing into Putin’s hands

10 December 2023 12:00 am

The news this week that Republicans in the US Senate had voted together to block a supplemental funding bill that…

Is this where world war three starts?

4 November 2023 9:00 am

  Daugavpils   You can tell quite a bit about a place by the number of national flags on display.…

Europe needs to step up on Ukraine

21 October 2023 9:00 am

Vasyl, a burly, tattooed infantry commander who lost a leg to a Russian mine on the eastern front, sits swinging…

Ukraine’s fight has been eclipsed by the ‘Other War’

21 October 2023 9:00 am

The first indication that this was a literary festival like no other came with the request to provide ‘proof of…

Has VR finally come of age?

14 October 2023 9:00 am

VR ‘immersion’ is everywhere in London this autumn, but is it of any value? Stuart Jeffries takes the plunge

Should Ukraine hold a general election next year?

30 September 2023 9:00 am

Should Ukraine hold a general election next year?

The Spectator’s Notes

23 September 2023 9:00 am

In 2014, Rolf Harris was convicted of sexual offences against girls. I wrote in this space that this would have…

Barometer

23 September 2023 9:00 am

Within limits Do 20mph speed limits save lives? – A 2018 report by Atkins/AECOM/UCL found that 51% of motorists conformed…

Letters

23 September 2023 9:00 am

Whose victory? Sir: Politicians are often accused of engaging in doublespeak, and I fear in the case of Boris Johnson’s…

High life

23 September 2023 9:00 am

Gstaad The Speccie arrived just in time for me to read about the rudeness of one Lyndon Johnson, then vice-president,…

Kamikaze drones are the future of warfare

17 September 2023 4:30 pm

The West is struggling to confront the modern military technologies of Russia, Iran and China. A year and a half…

Portrait of the Week

9 September 2023 9:00 am

The Spectator's Notes

9 September 2023 9:00 am

Portrait of the Week

2 September 2023 9:00 am

Why the US will decide Ukraine’s fate

2 September 2023 9:00 am

The US will decide Ukraine’s fate

Ukraine’s real killing fields: An investigation into the war’s first aid crisis

26 August 2023 9:00 am

An investigation into the war’s first aid crisis

Coutts has forgotten what the job of a bank is

29 July 2023 9:00 am

We now have a reluctant apology from Dame Alison Rose, followed by her even more reluctant resignation. Her departure is…

Inside Ukraine’s drone army

29 July 2023 9:00 am

Inside Ukraine’s drone army

High life

22 July 2023 9:00 am

Now that Wimbledon is over, a few thoughts about youthful brains showing traces of horse tranquillisers, angel dust and cannabis,…

Portrait of the week

15 July 2023 9:00 am

Letter from Latvia

15 July 2023 9:00 am