expand_moreexpand_lessexpand_moreexpand_less
|
 |
 |
The Spectator |
With world attention focused on the US-Israel assault on Iran, US Secretary of War Peter Hegseth delivered a speech last week at the inaugural...
It is impossible to imagine the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) functioning without its female soldiers. In the last week alone, over 30 Israeli female...
“Vanity of vanities… all is vanity.” Ecclesiastes had a point, but he never met a Luftwaffe fighter pilot. For the young Germans who hurled...
Each batch of new statistics reveals the scale of Britain’s mental health crisis. This week, we learnt that the number of people claiming health...
This week, Rene Redzepi – often credited as having created the world’s greatest restaurant – stepped down amid explosive allegations of abuse....
Being of menopausal age, I obey instructions and regularly lift weights (menopausal women are meant to lift heavy stuff and jump a lot to protect our...
Ballroom dancers, suicide cases, charlatans: Blackpool has them all. No place has so much possibility or holds so much of the British soul on...
A new narrative began at the start of the year, pushed by senior government figures including the Prime Minister, linking the populist right,...
Sir Keir Starmer wants everyone to know how sorry, really sorry, he is for giving Lord Mandelson the job of Ambassador to the United States. On a...
As the FBI investigates two potential terror attacks on US soil, the bureau’s director Kash Patel has been racking his brain for better ways to...
While Americans anxiously watch the price of gasoline tick higher as the war in the Middle East squeezes the global oil supply, the conflict has...
“Vanity of vanities… all is vanity.” Ecclesiastes had a point, but he never met a Luftwaffe fighter pilot. For the young Germans who hurled...
Climbing into the Blue Ridge mountains in Virginia with a muzzleloader slung over my shoulder was a journey back in time. This was the gun that the...
In 500 BC, Persia (modern Iran) was the most powerful state in the known world, ruling an area of more than two million square miles from the Balkans...
As a metal, gold never corrodes. As a possession, the reverse is too often true. It has the power to warp morality, destroy decency and tarnish...
About a decade ago, the people I dreaded meeting most at parties were the ed tech evangelists – men and women who lit up with zealous excitement...
Americans increasingly suspect that the entire social order is a sort of elaborate swindle. Billions of their taxpayer dollars were found to have gone...
As the joint American-Israeli military campaign in Iran continues, President Trump’s coalition is starting to exhibit some cracks. The war in Iran...
Thomas Massie’s predicament, as he fends off a Trump-backed challenger – and Trump himself – in the Republican primary for his seat in Congress,...
Each batch of new statistics reveals the scale of Britain’s mental health crisis. This week, we learnt that the number of people claiming health...
A French soldier was killed on Thursday evening in the Erbil region of Iraq. In announcing the death of chief warrant officer Arnaud Frion, President...
When the Scottish parliament was established in 1999, it was intended to represent the best of modern governance. The Labour architects of devolution,...
The United States has carried out what President Donald Trump described as one of the most powerful bombing raids in the history of the Middle East,...
The recent ‘school wars’ farrago was an act of madness – or, more accurately, Madness. ‘All the kids have gone away/Gone to fight with next...
A French soldier was killed on Thursday evening in the Erbil region of Iraq. In announcing the death of chief warrant officer Arnaud Frion, President...
Hannah Spencer’s maiden speech in the Commons – a cheerful and upbeat performance – was pegged to International Women’s Day. We learned that...
Ysenda Maxtone Graham has narrated this article for you to listen to. No one likes a blatant boaster. So, as adults, we learn that if we want to...
Remember Signalgate? It was quite the story, and worth revisiting now in light of Operation Epic Fury, the ongoing crisis in the Strait of Hormuz and...
When the Scottish parliament was established in 1999, it was intended to represent the best of modern governance. The Labour architects of devolution,...
‘Vanity of vanities… all is vanity.’ Ecclesiastes had a point, but he never met a Luftwaffe fighter pilot. For the young Germans who hurled...
The recent ‘school wars’ farrago was an act of madness – or, more accurately, Madness. ‘All the kids have gone away/Gone to fight with next...
Another day, another set of embarrassing revelations about Peter Mandelson. A photo has now emerged of Mandelson, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and...
Remember Signalgate? It was quite the story, and worth revisiting now in light of Operation Epic Fury, the ongoing crisis in the Strait of Hormuz and...
The Scottish Parliament is on the brink of passing a bill that would see Catholic hospitals and care homes shut down. The Bishops’ Conference of...
Hannah Spencer’s maiden speech in the Commons – a cheerful and upbeat performance – was pegged to International Women’s Day. We learned that...
Tuesday was a good day to drive in Derbyshire. While the rest of the country was asking itself whether events in the Gulf were about to mean queues at...
A corner of Glasgow’s historic Central Station was destroyed by fire last Sunday in scenes that resembled the 1970s disaster film Towering Inferno....
I’ve been thinking a lot about the phrase “unprovoked war.” It’s been rolling off leftist tongues since the explosion of hostilities in Iran....
It is one thing to glimpse the inner workings of government during extraordinary times. But it is another, and many times more telling, to gain a...
The Red Queen warned Alice, ‘Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.’ Her quip captures a cruel...
It’s surprising that champion jumps jockey Sean Bowen is still looking for his first winner at the Cheltenham Festival and so it would be fitting if...
Could there be any greater vindication for the government’s policy of pushing us to buy electric vehicles than the crisis in Iran, which has sent...
Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show the economy ground to a halt in January, with no growth recorded. That was...
The new supreme leader of Iran has still not been seen in public. Instead, the country’s state television broadcast what it described as his first...
Francis Pike has narrated this article for you to listen to. As a birthday treat, a good father might take his ten-year-old daughter to the ballet or...
Murton is a rather frowsy former pit village in County Durham, about half a dozen miles down the A19 from Sunderland. Chip shops, tanning salons,...
Damian Thompson has narrated this article for you to listen to. From time to time, I’ve given some famous pianists a bit of a kicking in the arts...
I’m conscious that, just as the easiest way to lose an argument is to mention Hitler, so the easiest way to lose journalistic credibility is to...
Sir Keir Starmer wants everyone to know how sorry, really sorry, he is for giving Lord Mandelson the job of Ambassador to the United States. On a...
A year ago today, the Prime Minister gave a speech on the ‘fundamental reform of the British state’. ‘We don’t want a bigger state, or an...
login
who are we?
contact us
qosheapp
