Can a government dating app solve Japan’s birth crisis?
The Tokyo metropolitan government has announced that it will soon be in the online matchmaking business. It is launching a…
A short history of cricket in Ukraine
Since the start of Vladimir Putin’s cold-blooded invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the stories and images being broadcast from the…
Vaccines? Excess deaths? Any link?
Is this the first significant crack in the dam? This week, the UK Telegraph ran a story that should be…
None so intolerant as the tolerant
Ignorance is bliss to young activists
There will be consequences
Attack yourself and you’ll soon have no one to defend yourself
Trump guilty of trumped-up charges
So why not charge him with fraud, rather than intent to defraud?
Rotten to the core
Manhattan malfeasance
Always follow the money
Opening our eyes to the real world
Fight for the soul of Europe begins
The political centre is shifting distinctly to the right
Our kamikaze elites
For the best of the West, head east
Wag the Two-Tailed Dog
EU policies are a joke but at least these ones are funny
Beware the totalitarian tendency
Judicial activism undermines our democracy
Phantom of her own career
Sunset Boulevard is one of the weirdest entertainment phenomena in the history of the world because it starts as a…
Aussie life
Encomium or insult, tribute or travesty; the line between portrait and caricature can be a very fine one. Readers who…
Language
This is an appeal to Speccie readers to join a modest campaign to ban the use of ‘begs the question’.…
Operation Convicted Felon
Trump’s enemies have trashed the rule of law
Those magnificent men and their stargazing machines
Violet Moller focuses on three 16th-century‘heroes of science’, John Dee, Nicolaus Copernicus and Tycho Brahe, and their great libraries and observatories
The joy of Portuguese wines
There was a wonderful old boy called John – Sir John – Wordie, who was a quintessential member of the…
The moment Starmer lost control of the Labour left
‘Tony Blair walks on water.’ Decades ago this statement led a Times photographer and me to the front door of…
Letters: the problem with Ozempic
At your service Sir: National service is a contentious issue with many people including the Armed Forces themselves (‘Identity crisis’,…
The English lieutenant’s Frenchwoman: the tragic story of Adèle Hugo
Mark Bostridge’s obsession with Victor Hugo’s beautiful daughter almost rivals her own infatuation with Albert Pinson, the naval officer she pursued around the world
Dear Mary: how do I dodge a party to avoid an undesirable guest?
Q. I am on a long, jam-packed and much disrupted train journey to Scotland. In the carriage someone is working…
Why being anti-car is a luxury belief
It happened six years ago on a flight back from the United States. ‘Sir, I’m pleased to say you’ve been…
The Tories have failed us over debanking – again
On Saturday morning, when I was helping Caroline prepare for a lunch party, I got an urgent request for help…
