Why Putin didn’t mention the war in his New Year’s address
With ‘don’t mention the war!’ the order of the day, it felt as if Vladimir Putin’s message to his people…
Watch: Sadiq Khan grilled on London knife crime
Sadiq Khan was hoping to project a message of ‘unity to the world’ with this year’s New Year’s Eve fireworks…
Why Europe’s centrists are terrified of 2024
New Year’s Eve passed off peacefully in France give or take the odd incident. There were 211 arrests in total,…
The ancient roots of Italy’s Festa della Befana
In Italy if you are not careful, you are condemned to measure out your life in religious festivals. There are…
The trouble with the United Nations’s fringe organisations
A new year is a good time for nations, like families, to review the institutions they support. For 2024 I…
Paris doesn’t want the 2024 Olympics
As hundreds of boats float elegantly down the Seine at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics this summer, one…
Why did it take so long to give Tim Martin a knighthood?
The news that Tim Martin, the founder of JD Wetherspoon, has been given a knighthood in the New Year Honours…
Is Opec’s power finally failing?
Since 1973, much of global politics has been conducted in the long shadow of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries…
Why The Spectator didn’t cancel Karol Sikora
Before the year ends, I’d like to tell the story of Karol Sikora and attempts to have him removed from…
Christianity in decline
It is platitudinal to claim that Christian religions in Australia are in decline. Indeed, for several years, Christianity has been…
Space junk
Like space junk in the stratosphere, the Western fiction-sphere is increasingly cluttered by a vast cloud of unfinished stories. This…
Bid to exclude Trump from 2024 primaries raises grave constitutional concerns
The 2024 presidential election is already proving to be a breeding ground for controversy, with states taking an audacious step…
