He was the only person ever to be White House national security adviser and ...
Henry Kissinger, who shaped world affairs under two presidents, dies at 100
Quick Glance: Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger Passes Away at 100
- He played a pivotal role in ending the Vietnam War and opening up relations with China.
- Kissinger is the only American to have negotiated directly with every Chinese leader from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping.
‘We can be quite sentimental about some of our so-called treasured assets,’ said Lord Johnson ...
Press freedom isn’t ‘sentimental’
it’s vital
When Rishi Sunak announced that the 2030 ban on new petrol and diesel cars would be delayed by five years ...
How China cornered the green market
Looking back, 2023 didn’t have all of the fireworks that the previous 12 months brought ...
Spectator Parliamentarian of the Year 2023, in pictures
Ridley Scott's historical epic is sometimes boring and pretentious and often a ...
Napoleon Is a Big, Messy Pageant, With Joaquin Phoenix as Its Dad-Humor Emperor
A new poll for STV News shows 61 per cent of Scots think Michael Matheson should resign over an £11 ...
Matheson should resign over £11k iPad bill, Scots say
Laikipia, Kenya Twenty years ago, we pitched a tent in the wilderness which became the farm where we live ...
Life was simple when we had just a tent in the bush
When the Ballets Russes first presented Fokine’s Polovtsian Dances at Covent Garden in ...
An awesome spectacle
The Mongol Khan, at the London Coliseum, reviewed
For almost a decade, doughnuts ruled my life. When I first began baking professionally, I fell into doughnut-making ...
How doughnuts took over my life
🗞 Carbon capture: how China cornered the green market
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Anne McElvoy is on the road again, exploring the state of modern Europe. Following her Radio 4 programme ...
Can Italy reverse its falling birth rate?
Ever since 2021’s Oprah interview, there has been a fascination with the identity of the notorious figure ...
Harry, Meghan and the mystery of the ‘royal racist’
Sanctions against Russia have backfired: Does a British government department have the right to punish individuals who have broken no laws on the basis of their ...
spectator.co.uk/article/sanctions-against-russia-have-backfired/
The park we go to every day is Victorian – large, full of mock landscapes and extravagantly diverse settings, lakes ...
The shame of Ian, the lockdown pup
The sensuality of the light in John Craxton’s painting ‘Two Figures and Setting Sun’ ...
Rich, beautiful and vital
John Craxton, at Pallant House Gallery, reviewed
The spätkauf is a Berlin institution, an egalitarian part of German culture into which anyone can enter ...
In praise of the späti, Berlin’s late-night corner shops
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the art critic Jonathan Jones. The term ‘renaissance’ is out of fashion among ...
Jonathan Jones
Earthly Delights
Major spoiler alert: if you don’t want to know the ending of ...
A calculated insult to the viewer
Channel 4’s The Princes in the Tower – The New Evidence reviewed
When is it acceptable to consider dating a widower? How do you know if they are still grieving and not ready to move on? According to ...
How to date a widower
Sam Altman, the recently fired (and rehired) chief executive of Open AI, was asked earlier this year by ...
Virology poses a far greater threat to the world than AI
The Aga oven is a staple of middle-class domestic life – but it is also a surprisingly useful addition to the home.
I’m an Aga convert
The Devonshire pub has just reopened in Soho – but why does refurbished bar tavern have this name?
Britain’s curious pub naming conventions
He died on the very day that President Kennedy was assassinated, Friday 22 November 1963, so it is not surprising that the event was ...
The greatness of C.S. Lewis
The priceless ancient Greek sculptures that have a home waiting for them atop Acropolis hill’s Parthenon in Athens, are being held captive at the British ... Show more
Quick Glance: Greece, UK Dispute: Parthenon Sculptures Clash
- Controversy over Parthenon sculptures displayed in the British Museum.
- Canceled meeting due to disagreement on revisiting resolved matters.
- Sculptures divided between London and Athens.
- Dispute jeopardized global issue discussions, including wars and climate crisis.
We’ve all been there, dragged along to the office/company/feminist protest group/a cappella ...
Admit it, there’s nothing worse than restaurants at Christmas
Under the new Bill, these powers are set to become exercisable under similar conditions by any 'senior ...
The insidious powers lurking in the Criminal Justice Bill
Members have selected Blair McDougall of the ‘Better Together’ campaign in 2014 to stand against Kirsten Oswald ...
Indyref rerun as No chief takes on SNP
Many British properties are being disconnected from the phone network – and their landline phones are being switched for internet ...
So long to the landline
Whatever position people take on the long-running dispute over the ownership of the Elgin marbles ...
Why is Sunak snubbing the Greeks?
Prince William emerges spectacularly badly in Endgame, with Scobie suggesting that he is trapped in a power ...
The knives are out for Prince William and Kate
Backstairs Billy is a biographical comedy about William Tallon ...
Gloriously entertaining
Backstairs Billy, at the Duke of York’s Theatre, reviewed
There is a feeling in France that a combination of weak politicians and weak judges has resulted in a ...
Macron’s France is trapped in a cycle of violence
The sirens sound in the street. The lockdown order comes. The images on the television are of chaos and ...
The last battle
The Future, by Naomi Alderman, reviewed
Once a King is trumpeted as ‘game-changing’, a ‘trove of never-before-seen papers which shed fresh light on the ...
The Duke of Windsor had much to be thankful for
The subject that Sarah Ditum addresses in Toxic is why the early part of this century was ‘such a monstrous time to be ...
The horrors of the ‘Upskirt Decade’
Hungary’s is a culture seeped in loss and tragedy. Little wonder it is so beautiful as the nights draw in and the greenery ...
Hungary, the autumnal civilisation
I rather bristle at newspaper column collections. They strike me as a bit lazy, a cheat’s way of getting another book under the belt ...
No nonsense in the kitchen
Former England manager Terry Venables has died aged 80 after a long illness ...
Terry Venables dead
Former England manager dies after long illness aged 80
When I say ‘Scottish salmon’ what do you see? I bet it’s a muscular 20-pounder flashing up a river ...
Should you ever eat wild salmon?
I confess I never expected to see myself going to the lavatory on prime-time national TV. In fact, the expedition was a failure ...
What prison taught me
Even the best-run companies have occasional leadership crises. But if you asked ChatGPT to come up with ...
Rishi Sunak can’t take the credit for falling inflation
Just as Francis Maude was revealing his exciting plans for grand reform of the civil service ...
The real reason the civil service needs reform
Climate reparations could be discussed by countries and leaders heading to Dubai this week for the COP28 summit.
Climate reparations are an awful idea
When I first heard of the 7 October attacks, I feared it would be the beginning of a war on several fronts: in Gaza ...
Hope is not yet extinguished in Jaffa
There is something therapeutic and healing in watching Professor Chris Whitty give evidence ...
The Covid Inquiry has unmasked the flaws in trusting ‘the science’
After months of protest and two rounds of strike action, today NHS consultants have reached a pay deal with the ...
Will NHS consultants vote to stop the strikes?
Rishi Sunak is on the defensive over legal migration. After figures late last week revealed net migration hit a ...
Sunak under pressure to curb legal migration
Just a year ago, Jeremy Hunt played Scrooge at the despatch box. In an attempt to regain market ...
The Tories are cutting it fine with their Autumn Statement
Ettie Neil-Gallacher on her manic Christmas tradition 👇
Read more here: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/let-me-introduce-my-manic-christmas-tradition-stir-up-sunday/
When is it acceptable to consider dating a widower? How do you know if they are still grieving and not ready to move on? According to ...
How to date a widower
Deliveroo and Just Eat make us worse versions of ourselves. And yet we’re addicted to order phones through their apps.
The despair of Deliveroo
It’s another week of rancour and recrimination in the SNP’s unhappy family. Today it’s the turn of rebel ...
Yousaf’s ‘cack-handed’ council tax freeze flops
Omid Scobie's Endgame contains plenty of revelations about Harry and Meghan and the Royals but King Charles ...
Is the war of the Windsors about to blow up again?
Figures out this week put net migration at 672,000 in the year to June 2023. Should the government cut the number of work visas ...
Should Sunak reduce immigration?
Rosie Duffield's enemies in and around the Labour party appear to be happy to use any means necessary to ...
Rosie Duffield’s opponents are intent on destroying her
Hard to imagine now but I was once a hot club DJ. I now need to go to bed on the same day I got up but once upon ...
For one night only, I was back on the DJ decks
Sanctions against Russia have backfired: Does a British government department have the right to punish individuals who have broken no laws on the basis of their ...
spectator.co.uk/article/sanctions-against-russia-have-backfired/
Hamas militants on Sunday freed 17 more hostages, including 14 Israelis, in a third set of releases ...
Israel-Hamas war
Fragile cease-fire back on track in Gaza
He died on the very day that President Kennedy was assassinated, Friday 22 November 1963, so it is not surprising that the event was ...
The greatness of C.S. Lewis
Sam Altman, the recently fired (and rehired) chief executive of Open AI, was asked earlier this year by ...
Virology poses a far greater threat to the world than AI
There is something meditative about the process of firing a gun, your concentrations has to match up with what your body is doing ...
I found peace at the gun range
I’m a sixth-former in one of Britain’s largest comprehensives and know no one who supports Israel over Palestine ...
Why so many teenagers support Palestine
"The Doctor has always supported the other, the unusual ...
David Tennant Says His Recent Shows Of Support For Trans People 'Suit What Doctor Who Is About'
Quick Glance: David Tennant Shows Support for Transgender Community
- David Tennant sports symbols of the transgender community at various events, including a Tardis pin in the colors of the transgender flag.
- The pin has raised over £18,000 for the LGBTQ+ youth charity AKT.
- He emphasized that the Doctor has always supported those who are different or disenfranchised.
- He also wore a t-shirt with a message in support of trans kids.
My mother hated Christmas, so I insist on doing it properly: by making my own Christmas pudding and stressing out my ...
Introducing my manic Christmas tradition
Last week the King’s College London LGBTQ staff network, called Proudly King’s, demonstrated its intellectual ...
KCL’s sinister diversity and inclusion policies
Why destroy your own city? Because it doesn’t feel like it belongs to you ...
Artist Spicebag
You’ll never see eye-to-eye with someone who thinks you’re an animal
There are deep divisions between core members, especially Russia and Saudi Arabia, and many of the bloc’s African members ...
Opec’s split is good for the West
I have been reviewing books for nearly four decades – starting in this very magazine – and over ...
The real problem with ChatGPT is that it can never make a joke
Russell Norman, the chef behind the restaurants Polpo in Soho and Brutto in Farringdon, has died at the age of 57.
Why Russell Norman was a restaurant genius
Would readers approaching this novel (although novel might not be precisely the ...
A multicultural microcosm
Brooklyn Crime Novel, by Jonathan Lethem, reviewed
Whether Muslim, Jewish, Christian or atheist – and whatever your nationality – there is ample reason to ...
The stakes are high at London’s anti-Semitism march
Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas first met in a gallery at the Louvre. Degas was standing ...
Surreal visions
the best of this year’s art books reviewed
Choose your weapon. Artists are closely defined in the public imagination by their ...
Melodic elegance and literate sass
Ben Folds, at Usher Hall, reviewed
The sensuality of the light in John Craxton’s painting ‘Two Figures and Setting Sun’ ...
Rich, beautiful and vital
John Craxton, at Pallant House Gallery, reviewed
I am lazy and nosy, and so I spend a lot of time on the GWR service from ...
‘The potential for jeopardy’
Pullman Dining on the Great Western Railway, reviewed
Anyone know the Hindi for schadenfreude? Who could have seen that coming: certainly not your correspondent ...
How Vegas became a sporting hotspot
‘The road to hell is paved with good intentions’. Nowhere is this so true as in the streets of Calcutta ...
How to travel India by steamboat
The singer and actor David Cassidy died six years ago this week. Why do so few people remember his era-defining pop music?
Why have we forgotten David Cassidy?
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