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The police are a law unto themselves

15 April 2023 9:00 am

The journos weren’t very impressed with Nicola Sturgeon’s house. Never mind the plod staring like morons at her barbecue or…

Lessons in parenting – from the French

15 April 2023 9:00 am

I am actively contributing to the decline of the West and to the collapse of our civilisation. I realised this…

In defence of Picasso

15 April 2023 9:00 am

‘Well, they can’t cancel Picasso.’ That was my optimistic take some months ago when a friend in the art world…

The Spectator's Notes

8 April 2023 9:00 am

It’s springtime for Rishi

8 April 2023 9:00 am

Two years ago when the Tories won the Hartlepool by-election at the local elections, the political mood was summed up…

My messiah complex

8 April 2023 9:00 am

In June 1999, I described on this page jameitos, tiny, blind, albino crabs on the sea bottom in a cave…

Sanna Marin and the female leadership myth

8 April 2023 9:00 am

It is with great sadness that I must report the departure of the world’s only female head of state who…

Why Democrats want Trump

8 April 2023 9:00 am

Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg’s indictment of an even more prominent fat man seems a big win for Donald Trump,…

Is the English countryside racist?

8 April 2023 9:00 am

I don’t know what your plans are for Easter. Mine generally include a nice walk in the English countryside. There…

A trans-Pacific trade deal is great if we have the right products to sell

8 April 2023 9:00 am

BBC News reported Britain’s imminent accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership behind two stories about racism…

Why Humza Yousaf is the Union’s best hope

1 April 2023 9:00 am

After the narrow victory of the Brexit campaign in 2016, it was often said that the result would lead to…

The rule of lawyers

1 April 2023 9:00 am

Have you had your fourth Covid booster jab yet? They are being very quiet about it these days. I used…

The Spectator's Notes

1 April 2023 9:00 am

Beware the AI voice thieves

1 April 2023 9:00 am

After years of blissful indifference, finally I’m scared of AI. I’ve been complacent, slept soundly beside my husband as he…

Our poor deluded MPs

1 April 2023 9:00 am

They say that death and taxes are the only certainties in life. But I would add a couple more things…

The Spectator's Notes

25 March 2023 9:00 am

Why No. 10 fears Boris’s banishment

25 March 2023 9:00 am

Even now, months after he was forced to resign, Boris Johnson has a potency that no other British politician can…

Childcare: an inconvenient truth

25 March 2023 9:00 am

Wyndham Lewis once said that ‘the ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season’ – but that,…

What I’ve learned from a lifetime of travelling

25 March 2023 9:00 am

In the language of the Mapuche people of Patagonia, futa (I’m told) means ‘river’ and leufú means ‘big’. So Spanish–speaking…

The high price of low interest rates

25 March 2023 9:00 am

You’ll recall that I’ve railed for years against zero interest rates, which transplanted a cancerous marrow into the very bones…

The joke is on America

25 March 2023 9:00 am

I was brought up on Dan Quayle jokes. You know the ones – like the gag that the then vice-president…

Budget 2023: Restraint now, reward later?

18 March 2023 9:00 am

The paradox of Rishi Sunak’s premiership is that even though he became Prime Minister because of the economy, it’s the…