World
A Chinese diplomat has let slip the truth about Beijing’s foreign policy
The off-colour comment by Lu Shaye, China’s ambassador to France, that post-Soviet countries such as Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania did…
Can Meloni and Sunak unite to tackle Europe’s migrant crisis?
The number keep rising. Italy’s Interior Ministry announced at the weekend that 35,085 migrants have arrived on their shores this…
The New Right is going nowhere — and knows it
It is an irony of history that the bronze Statue of Freedom which stands tall atop the US Capitol dome…
Why now is the time to visit Bangkok
In the deliciously darkened corners of the Vesper cocktail bar, in the central quartier of the Siamese capital known as Silom, the…
In praise of burnt Basque cheesecake
Spring, as Chaucer pointed out, occasionally has the curious effect of making people “long on pilgrimage to go / And…
Why China might attack Taiwan
China may well attack Taiwan. According to the CIA, President Xi Jinping has instructed his armed forces to be able…
Scotland awaits the fate of the Third Woman
Scottish politics has never been more febrile. If we go a day without an arrest, a resignation, a revelation about…
Pakistan has reached an inflection point
The holy festival of Eid-ul-Fitr has dawned in Pakistan, marking the end of Ramadan. Celebrations were unusually muted. The month of Ramadan has been harrowing…
Should Italy’s killer bear be sentenced to death?
The female bear that mauled to death a male jogger in the Italian Alps on 5th April was captured this…
The EU must tread carefully in its AI crackdown
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has surged in popularity in recent months. ChatGPT alone has swelled to more than 100 million users…
Has Germany truly come to terms with its Nazi past?
Germany is often lauded for the way it confronts its own past. The Holocaust, the murder of six million Jewish…
Art is eating itself
In his curious little book about Flying Saucers, Carl Jung took an interesting detour into the psychology of modern art. His contemporaries, he said,…
Jacinda Ardern’s disappearing act
Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern bade farewell to parliament a few weeks ago. Ardern had resigned as PM in…
Doesn’t America deserve better than a Trump-Biden rematch?
Joe Biden is considering making his re-election announcement as early as Tuesday. After months of teasing his inevitable run with…
Self-obsession will be the death of music
Though I’m not the most avid fan of her oeuvre, I was cheered recently to see that Ellie Goulding wanted…
Will eco-activists disrupt the London Marathon?
Ever since Monty Python created their internecine, bickering and ridiculous groups of freedom fighters – the People’s Front of Judea and the…
RIP Barry Humphries
It was not just Barry Humphries who died on Saturday. It was that towering skewerer of pomposity and humbug, and gate-crasher of Royal boxes,…
Could the Blinken revelations lead to Biden’s impeachment?
What’s that flapping sound? Could it be the sound of chickens coming home to roost? Or maybe it’s just the grating…
Why does no one dress for dinner at Claridge’s any more?
Barry Humphries has died at the age of 89. This was his last diary for The Spectator in our 2022…
Covid’s origins and a disturbing Nature study
Ever since the world was forced into lockdown in March 2020, the question of where and how Covid-19 appeared has…
Fentanyl is wreaking havoc in America
I stepped through a hole in the chainlink fence surrounding Portland’s O’Bryant Square and saw four people nodded out and…
The trouble with The Rest is Politics podcast
You have probably already heard of The Rest is Politics, which consistently tops the podcast charts. You have certainly already…
Macron has left Marseille at the mercy of violent drug gangs
Five months and counting until France hosts the Rugby World Cup. For England supporters, the tournament kicks off at the…
Newsnight stoops to a new low in its climate protest coverage
Has the BBC been invaded by a cabal of Extinction Rebellion protesters who have tied up the Director General in…
Sunak opts for loyalty first in reshuffle
What does Rishi Sunak’s mini-reshuffle reveal? When Nadhim Zahawi was sacked as party chairman, the Prime Minister took his time…
