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There seems little doubt now that Giorgia Meloni’s government will survive until 4 September and so become the longest lasting in the history of the...
There’s been much comment on the appointment of James Purnell as Andy Burnham’s chief of staff. Along with the widely touted return of David...
The annual Pride parades celebrated across the globe are not the events they used to be. First held in New York City on 28 June 1970 and going by the...
In Germany, the trains have stopped running on time, bridges have been shut over safety fears, and the country’s largest carmaker, Volkswagen, is...
Nigel Farage did not declare financial benefits provided to him by his long-standing supporter George Cottrell in the year before he was elected, the...
James Delingpole has narrated this article for you to listen to. I tried to think, Pointless-style, of two of the countries least likely to be...
Before I became confined to a wheelchair two years ago after an operation for a spinal abscess, I’d never read a book about disability. More...
As dark clouds of burning oil billow like thunderheads on the skyline of Moscow and black rain falls across the capital, why does Vladimir Putin fail...
Amidst the summer’s plethora of advertisements aimed at the moronic, desperate and gullible, an especially crass one stands out. Ralph...
Before I became confined to a wheelchair two years ago after an operation for a spinal abscess, I’d never read a book about disability. More...
Keir Starmer is fond of a beer. We knew he liked beer when we knew nothing much about his policies except that they were in favour of everything...
There are signs: a Wimbledon towel in the downstairs loo. Another, faded, in a child’s swimming bag. Maybe a Links of London strawberry charm...
Among my many unpopular and unpatriotic opinions is that, in most of the ways that matter, the terrorists responsible for the September 11th attacks...
One could be forgiven for thinking that the extensive coverage given to the fiasco surrounding Hammersmith Bridge is typical of a capital-centric...
At 41 years old, Cristiano Ronaldo is a shadow of the once brilliant player he was. Everyone can see it, except the great man himself. The five-time...
The government’s decision to decriminalise rough sleeping by repealing the Vagrancy Act of 1824 has been met with outrage and wringing hands. For...
Nigel Farage did not declare financial benefits provided to him by his long-standing supporter George Cottrell in the year before he was elected, the...
Thank heavens that everything in the UK is going so well, that more than 50 MPs have so little to do that they can spend their time lobbying against a...
England fans have been scarred by the Azteca stadium in the past. High on the Mexican plateau, the giant concrete fortress was where Maradona scored...
There is something poignant about Andy Burnham’s campaign for water nationalisation. In a previous life, the ‘King of the North’ was Health...
England fans have been scarred by the Azteca stadium in the past. High on the Mexican plateau, the giant concrete fortress was where Maradona scored...
The heat is on. The R&B group Kool and the Gang may be co-headlining the historic ‘A Capitol Fourth 250th Weekend Celebration’, but that...
The story of the United States was determined from the start by the manner of its birth. The original 13 English colonies may seem lost in the distant...
There’s something special about raising a glass with people you’ve built history with. For us, Dos Hombres has always been about friendship,...
Luther Martin: a voluble and drunken Maryland attorney who walked out of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 after warning his fellow delegates that...
The Constitution was signed on a Monday. That much everyone knows. What the official record tends to skip is what happened right afterward. Forty-two...
As the United States marks 250 years since the country’s unilateral declaration of independence, most of the 4 July celebrations have focused on the...
Is the United States a capitalist country, where bosses exploit workers, or is it a great empire, where colonists exploit subject peoples? American...
“You can do two things,” Donald Trump told reporters as he stood beside the new retrofitted Air Force One on Wednesday. “You can low-key it, or...
Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun but venturing out at that hour during a heatwave seems a special kind of folly. The sight of a...
Armed with his water gun and foul language, a truculent 14-year-old Arab boy called Hamza has become the unexpected sideshow of the Paris heatwave...
Magdalen College, Oxford, is over-represented at The Spectator. Not long ago, Paul Johnson and Matthew d’Ancona were fixtures here. Today, there...
As every single one of my friends – and their spouses – is a tasteful soul, it goes without saying that every wedding I have ever attended has...
It’s a busy Saturday morning and in the supermarket car parks of Britain we are forced to indulge in a cartoonish game of automotive...
Armed with his water gun and foul language, a truculent 14-year-old Arab boy called Hamza has become the unexpected sideshow of the Paris heatwave...
As a good Labour man, I’m sure Andy Burnham will have read his Marx (even if he is by no stretch a Marxist). And he’ll likely be aware of Marx’s...
Thank heavens that everything in the UK is going so well, that more than 50 MPs have so little to do that they can spend their time lobbying against a...
Is Thomas Tuchel a secret agent sent by Friedrich Merz’s government to ruin the UK economy and education system so as to make life easier for German...
Britain will become “the fastest adopter of AI in the G7” the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, proudly told us last month. If that is to be the case,...
Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun but venturing out at that hour during a heatwave seems a special kind of folly. The sight of a...
‘Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made,’ John Godfrey Saxe warned way back in 1869. His jab was...
Andrew Sabisky is a self-described superforecaster. As one of Philip Tetlock’s devotees he claims to have an elite sensitivity to seeing the future....
Late in 2020, under semi-lockdown conditions, I viewed an empty flat in the Seven Dials enclave of Covent Garden, a stone’s throw east of Soho....
‘Feeling a bit stressed or anxious? Want to practise more mindfulness? Looking for good vibes and your best mellow and chill?’ This is not an...
Gavin Mortimer has narrated this article for you to listen to. Emmanuel Macron has lost a friend in Keir Starmer. The French President paid tribute to...
My favourite hunter has died and I am bereft. No disrespect to the myriad other horses I have known and loved over the years – Ianto, Alfie, Mr...
Max Jeffery has narrated this article for you to listen to. William Dalrymple says that children ‘don’t learn’ about the British Empire at...
Unsurprisingly, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen (LLB) doesn’t judge No. 10’s recent occupants by their policies. Rather, it’s their interior...
Donald Trump’s quest for regime change in Iran has backfired horribly. The president misunderstood the resilience of the 47-year-old Islamic...
The week-long funeral ceremony for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s former supreme leader who was killed in a US-Israeli military strikes four months...
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