The Spectator

The next federal election is there to be won. Peter Dutton and the Coalition have the ability to win it,…

On bikie gangs, corrupt unions and a mendacious Labor party

The Canberra bureaucrats have failed us yet again

Reality spoils the dream

DEI must DIE

It’s called ‘plausible deniability’

Tell Mr Bowen he’s dreaming

Restoring dignity and pride to the forgotten left-behinds

Republicans are ‘evil’, while Democrats ‘make mistakes’

Identity politics will live or die under Kamala Harris

The alternative means irreversible damage to the West

On Woman’s Hour recently, Anita Rani and her guests set out to celebrate the positive sides of a woman’s midlife.…

Nouakchott in Mauritania is often referred to as the ‘worst capital city in the world’. That may be a little…

The Hollywood adaptation of Conclave, Robert Harris’s thriller about a conspiracy to rig a papal election, won’t be in cinemas…

Aron D’Souza likes to celebrate the new year with Peter Thiel, the venture capitalist billionaire who is good friends with…

For the past decade, the basic lines of conflict in American public life seemed clear. Donald Trump was pitted against…

Maria Corina Machado is showing the world how opposition politicians can fight an autocrat. When President Nicolas Maduro tried to…

The perfect, unpretentious, well-constructed party bag was given to guests leaving a recent Hatchards party. It contained a wedge of…

I’m struck just in your presence,’ a news anchor gushed to Kamala Harris in January. The Vice President beamed, nodding…

On Monday, Donald J. Trump sent out an urgent campaign memo. ‘Joe Biden just dropped out of the race, and…

Disappearing England Sir: Rod Liddle’s reference to Labour’s intention to build 1.5 million new houses (‘The great bee-smuggling scandal’, 13…

Keir Starmer is advertising for someone to head his newly created Border Security Command. The salary is higher than his…

Home Britain enjoyed its share of the worldwide failure of 8.5 million computers reliant on Microsoft, through a faulty update…

While everybody at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee was preoccupied with Donald Trump’s triumphal story after the assassination attempt…

Not long before Joe Biden finally accepted defeat, Gavin Newsom, the 56-year-old governor of California, was on the stump for…

As something of a fan of riots and social unrest I was interested to know who, precisely, had gone doolally…

If the new government’s ‘pensions review’ takes forward last year’s ‘Mansion House reforms’ – credited to chancellor Jeremy Hunt but…

There are times when you might be fooled into believing all is well. I had a moment of such weakness…

On Monday night the Conservatives announced the rules of the party’s leadership contest. The reaction in Labour circles was incredulity…

As President Biden sank more deeply into the mire this month, kind friends kept urging me to write in his…

Despite their diverse ideologies, autocracies in China, Iran, Russia and Latin America are increasingly collaborating to sabotage a rules-based international order

For the past 80,000 years, our protagonist has been fated to respawn himself. With a similar being now tracking him, he longs for the option of non-existence

On a break in Mexico, a young Indian woman is regaled with stories of her mother’s past by a total stranger. But is it all a con?

Deborah Paredez celebrates ‘bold, beautiful, messy’ stars such as Tina Turner, Celia Cruz, Vikki Carr, Grace Jones and Aretha Franklin as fabulous role models for the oppressed

The author of A River Runs Through It emerges as wiry, sardonic, compassionate and inspirational from Rebecca McCarthy’s trenchant memoir

Steven Hyden traces the impact of the title song, whose coruscating verses and affirmatory choruses cut both ways, and made its creator for a time the world’s greatest rock star

A graduate course at the University of Chicago teaches stand-up to a group of aspiring young comedians. But the more you analyse humour, the less funny it becomes

After 400 generations of martial conflict on Earth, mankind now faces the prospect of wars in space, as China and America vie for mastery of the heavens

Capitalising on his Afghan-Indian heritage, Ikbal Shah claimed to have crucial inside knowledge of Central Asia, while his son Idries later purveyed a rebranded Sufism for the West

When a poor peasant named Mary Toft claimed to have given birth to 17 rabbits, many in Georgian Britain believed her, including senior members of the medical profession

A video file of an African teenager with legendary ball skills is circulating far from his homeland – wherever that is. How hard can it be to track him down?

Polio in childhood weakened her left hand, leaving her to devise alternative tuning, surprising phrasing and ‘chords of inquiry’ that hang like question marks in the air

Isn’t it extraordinary how the new-style, super-arty balletic circus has transformed the old child-delighting world of Heffalumps and daring young…

About Dry Grasses is the latest film from Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan and it had better – I thought…

Sherlock Holmes fans will be delighted to know that there is a new play featuring the great man. In it…

Our subsidised theatres often import shows from the US without asking whether our theatrical tastes align with America’s. The latest…

On 24 April 1937 Marguerite Guggenheim – known as Peggy – of Yew Tree Cottage, Hurst was booked by a…

If you transcribed the narrator’s script in almost any episode of Horizon, you’d notice something striking: an awful lot of…

There are certain long-established rules for describing Patti Smith. Google her name and the words ‘shaman’ and ‘priestess’ and you’ll…

According to Treasurer Jim Chalmers, increasing competition among supermarket giants will help deliver lower grocery prices. ‘If it is more…

If you haven’t come across it before, let me introduce you to ‘linguistic engineering’. This useful expression has been around…

There was not a Spaniard in sight, I was pretty sure of that. But I was surrounded by the enemy,…

Q. My husband and I have just been on a wonderful long weekend abroad to a friend’s 60th birthday. We…

The appointment of Becky Francis CBE to lead the Department for Education’s shake-up of the national curriculum is typical of…

The Olympics have been creeping up on us through the forest of top-class sport this summer. But now they’re here,…

My husband has taken to crying out or braying ‘Haar, ha!’ at the wireless whenever he hears something particularly foolish,…

In Competition 3359 you were invited to present an account of a historical event as football commentary. There were enough…

Forgive me Father, for I have sinned. It has been… too long since my last confession. Picture the scene. I…

We are blessed these days with a rare stream of jockey talent including the likes of William Buick, Ryan Moore,…

My one finished bathroom featured a sink so small I could only wash one hand in it at a time,…

The Park is the new restaurant from Jeremy King, and it sits in a golden building to the north of…