Features

Cable cars, cheese and chic on the quieter side of the Alps

17 October 2015 9:00 am

‘It sounds like you’re having an Ann Summers party up there,’ a male traveller called, as our group erupted into…

Palaces and alleyways: Stone Town

The wonders of Zanzibar’s Stone Town

17 October 2015 9:00 am

Mark Palmer explores the Spice Island’s historic heart

The new sexual revolution

17 October 2015 9:00 am

Young people today refuse to be simply gay, straight or bi

Why won’t the Met speak out on Tom Watson’s biggest claim?

17 October 2015 9:00 am

Why won’t the police say that they have found no evidence whatsoever of a paedophile network linked to Parliament?

Adventures on the isle that seduced Odysseus

17 October 2015 9:00 am

Gozo — Malta’s tiny island neighbour — was once rather a crucial spot in the Mediterranean. The Knights of Malta…

Centralising, illiberal, catastrophic: the SNP’s one-party state

17 October 2015 9:00 am

Nicola Sturgeon’s government is an illiberal, centralising disaster. Time for a revolution

My Schubert cruise was a transport of delight

17 October 2015 8:00 am

Michael Henderson is transported to raptures on a Schubert cruise

Bring back the bungalow!

17 October 2015 8:00 am

We’re not building the right houses for our ageing population

Notes from a very small island: wonderful, eccentric Ascension

17 October 2015 8:00 am

A toast to Ascension Island – remote, eccentric, and now vital to the space race – on its 200th birthday

What Scottish professors have to fear from Nicola Sturgeon’s power grab

17 October 2015 8:00 am

What Scotland’s professors have to fear from the SNP’s latest bright idea

Dementia Love

17 October 2015 8:00 am

You lie so quiet on your bed, You hear the sound and turn your head. I wait and hope, perhaps…

Dementia Love

15 October 2015 2:00 pm

You lie so quiet on your bed, You hear the sound and turn your head. I wait and hope, perhaps…

Adventures on the isle that seduced Odysseus

15 October 2015 2:00 pm

Gozo — Malta’s tiny island neighbour — was once rather a crucial spot in the Mediterranean. The Knights of Malta…

Dementia Love

15 October 2015 2:00 pm

You lie so quiet on your bed, You hear the sound and turn your head. I wait and hope, perhaps…

Sorry, America, but it looks like Joe Biden is your next president

10 October 2015 9:00 am

I have a sinking feeling that Joe Biden might be the next president of the United States. In a brilliant…

One in ten British babies will soon be born via IVF. So why is it taboo?

10 October 2015 9:00 am

Pretty soon, one in ten British babies will begin life in a Petri dish. So why is it still such a taboo subject?

Why Carly Fiorina (probably) can’t save the Republicans

10 October 2015 9:00 am

Is Carly Fiorina the woman to see off Donald Trump – and Hillary Clinton?

I invented ‘virtue signalling’. Now it’s taking over the world

10 October 2015 9:00 am

I invented the term ‘virtue signalling’ in The Spectator. Now it seems to be taking over the world

Look out below: one of The Hague’s gargoyles

Look beyond ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ in The Hague

10 October 2015 9:00 am

What a fate it is to be hung next to the most famous painting in a gallery. To be overlooked,…

This year, Catholic conservatives are ready for Pope Francis

10 October 2015 9:00 am

Where will Francis's Synod on the Family take the Church?

How Putin outwitted the West

10 October 2015 9:00 am

His cynical statecraft in Syria has run rings around Britain and America

Look out below: one of The Hague’s gargoyles

Look beyond ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ in The Hague

8 October 2015 2:00 pm

What a fate it is to be hung next to the most famous painting in a gallery. To be overlooked,…

Boris in the wilderness

3 October 2015 9:00 am

His leadership challenge is dwindling while Osborne’s star rises

Nicky Morgan's pitch for the Tory leadership

3 October 2015 9:00 am

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan thinks a woman should run to be the next Tory leader

David Cameron’s place in the premier league of Tory history

3 October 2015 9:00 am

Where will David Cameron rank among Tory prime ministers?