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Turkey is turning into a paranoid one-party state
President Erdogan’s increasingly tyrannical regime is suppressing the truth about its war on the Kurds
A roomful of firearms and fantasists at the world’s biggest gun show
Amid the hunters, urban cowboys and trigger-happy heroes at the world’s biggest gun show
What stops women from having it all
Don’t even ask, says Anne-Marie Slaughter, law professor and former adviser to Hillary Clinton. Motherhood still means sacrifice
This could be the year that sport starts to die
If sport loses the public’s faith – and it’s starting to – then all its power and glory will fade
Ernest Shackleton and other South Georgia ghosts
The terrible news that Henry Worsley had died just 30 miles short of crossing the Antarctic continent unsupported reached me…
The Venice Accademia: is this the smallest great gallery in the world?
The Accademia is one of the smallest of the world’s great art galleries, and picture for picture perhaps the most…
Another Slice
All the books stored above our heads, all the books there aren’t enough hours to read again, and still we…
The Venice Accademia
The Accademia is one of the smallest of the world’s great art galleries, and picture for picture perhaps the most…
Another Slice
All the books stored above our heads, all the books there aren’t enough hours to read again, and still we…
Donald Trump offers only gloom, insults and arrogance - and America loves him for it
‘The Donald’ is winning because he is angrier than his rivals
Donald Trump is lashing out in all directions
Trump denounces Muslims, Mexicans… and millionaires
In most state schools, cricket is a dead ball game
The England team may be riding high, but state schools have all but abandoned cricket
The low tricks of high finance: how greedy bankers, weak politicians and timid journalists could cause a new crash
Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, rages against greedy bankers, weak politicians and timid journalists
How Norland nannies became the ultimate status symbol
Edwardian childcare has been updated, and the oligarchs can’t get enough
What Brexit would look like for Britain
Life outside the EU would be good for Britain
Why were we going to Israel? For the winter sunshine, of course
Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Croatia, Morocco: if I had picked anywhere else on the Mediterranean for a family holiday, at…
The lovely Clare Valley, like southern France with added kangaroos
It is a century and a half since The Spectator noted the exceptional qualities of South Australia, a colony of…
The Clare Valley
It is a century and a half since The Spectator noted the exceptional qualities of South Australia, a colony of…
Project Fear: how Cameron plans to scare us into staying in the EU
Cameron will play on fears of Islamic State, Russia and crime to win an EU ‘In’ vote
It’s not only Germany that covers up mass sex attacks by migrant men... Sweden’s record is shameful
The truth about the recent mass sex attacks needs to be faced
The one thing most people think they know about economics is wrong
The one thing most people think they know about economics is wrong
America notebook: How Donald Trump is destroying the Republican party
I am writing on the morning that President Obama is to deliver his last State of the Union address. You,…
My Brighton’s gone all Brideshead
My town is overrun with drunken Mileses and Gileses and Violets these days. Cross these oafish students at your peril
Why Pakistan’s most successful businesswoman should be celebrated
The entrepreneur Seema Aziz has founded 256 schools and transformed the lives of many thousands of people. So why does the West ignore her remarkable story?
The world is about to discover the wonders of Lake Iseo
If you’ve never heard of Lake Iseo, you’re not alone. Nestling shyly between chocolate-box Como and glamorous Garda, the smallest…
