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The 2024 election will be cataclysmic for the Conservatives
I spend a lot of my time fantasising about the death of the Conservative Party. I like to picture election…
Is global warming behind America’s snowstorms?
Is there any weather condition which cannot be blamed on anthropogenic global warming (AGW)? No, it seems, judging by the reaction…
How Pope Benedict persuaded me to become a Catholic
I grew up in a traditional English family, surrounded by cousins, chivvied by aunts, presided over by my grandmother, who…
What Meghan Markle’s digital army has in common with trans activists
If Meghan Markle’s army of digital defenders didn’t exist, we’d have to make them up. Otherwise, the never-ending controversy over…
How the Freemasons influenced Iran’s modern history
The political movement that led to Iran’s first constitution in 1906 – which established the country’s first parliament – was underpinned by an…
All is not well in Macron’s France
The relationship entertained by French elites to their homeland is very different from their English counterparts. ‘England is perhaps the…
Academic freedom is being stifled at Imperial College London
We have become used to the erosion of academic freedom in the humanities and social sciences. It is no longer…
How Britain’s economy might bounce back in 2023
Whatever happened to the economic boom that was supposed to follow the Covid pandemic? The 2020s, some argued, would be…
Why Britain will feel the cold more than Iceland this winter
A winter of discontent is underway in Europe. Germany, France and Britain are the biggest economies in Europe: all face…
Why does Jamie Oliver always get an easy ride?
There are many annoying things about the celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, but none of them grates my gears as much…
Diversity, nepo-babies and The Spectator
It’s a bit of a late entry for phrase of the year, but the term ‘nepo babies’ has captured attention…
Could the West have done more to help Russia?
At New Year 1992, the USSR ceased to exist and Russia and the other Soviet republics became independent states. Western…
The Recruit might be the worst show on Netflix
The Top Gun series received generous support from the US Navy because it was such an effective recruitment tool. I…
The Raj revision: why historians are thinking again about British rule in India
Is there anything good to be said of British rule over India? The verdict of many politicians, museum curators, TV…
The Twitter Files reveal an unholy alliance
With the recent release of the “Twitter Files,” we’ve learned what so many of us already knew. Or I should…
Putin’s unholy alliance and the sins of the Russian Orthodox church
Travel the length and breadth of Russia – as you could fairly easily before the outbreak of war last February…
The King has inherited his mother’s sense of duty
For the first King’s speech since 1951, the King might have been forgiven for striking a downbeat note in his…
In praise of the Church of England
The Church of England, like all churches, has always struggled with the tension between the affirmation or assimilation of culture,…
Christmas after our darkest hour (1940)
Below is The Spectator’s leading article from Christmas 1940, which you can find on our fully-digitised archive. We have reached…
A Winston Churchill Christmas
On Christmas Eve 1941, in Washington on a diplomatic mission to organize the support of Britain’s American allies in the…
Qatargate has exposed the staggering hypocrisy of the European left
Ravenna, Italy Everyone in Britain has focused on what the Qatargate corruption scandal reveals about the European Union – but not…
China is obscuring the scale of its Covid wave
One University of Hong Kong model has forecast that there could be up to a million Covid deaths in China over the…
Christmas in Ukraine and the ghosts of conflicts past
In Ukrainian, the name for Christmas is Ridztvo (Різдво), meaning ‘Nativity’. The Russian equivalent, used by one in three citizens in Ukraine,…
In defence of Scrooge
There is no Christmas story like A Christmas Carol, and few seasonal characters as iconic as Ebenezer Scrooge; the ‘clutching,…
India’s war on Christians
Christmas is usually Nayomi Gracy’s favourite time of year. But this year, Gracy is feeling more fearful than cheerful. Right-wing Hindu…
