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The Coral Stewards’ Cup has to be one of the toughest handicaps of the year to solve and tomorrow’s running (Goodwood, 3.35 p.m.) is as open as...
We’re living in a golden age of parliamentary sketch writing; never have so many been made mincemeat of by so few. Our own Madeline...
The US Senate narrowly defeated a measure yesterday intended to crimp, if not terminate, President Trump’s ability to conduct hostilities against...
A sanctimonious liberal like any other respectable 16-year-old, I made a seminal lurch to the right the first time I opened a pay slip. I was manning...
It was the day after The Spectator’s summer party and I was on my way to something called a death café. After an unknown quantity of Pol Roger the...
Patriotic Millionaires UK, led by the former City trader Gary Stevenson and endorsed by Gary Lineker, has ‘100-plus’ members but claims to speak...
Bordeaux and Madrid are threatened by flames. In Sicily, arsonists tied burning rags to the tails of cats to spread fires. Here in Britain the...
For those still paying attention to the evil mischief indulged in and spread by the anti-Zionism-obsessed Green party, a sizeable 30 of whose local...
‘Growth in every postcode’, ‘levelling up’ – whatever you call it, it is easier to sympathise with the general aim of raising living...
Heatwave number four swept through France this week. The temperature hit 42C in some regions, including in the south-west, where firefighters have...
Are you a ‘recliner’ or a ‘refrainer’? Do you ease your seat back on an aeroplane as soon as you can, or remain bolt upright and swallow...
Eighty-five years ago today, one of the most important directives in world history was issued. On 31 July 1941, Hermann Göring – a powerful...
The Dunwich fire that has swept across the heathland neighbouring my house is both terrifying and tragic for the environment and the wildlife there,...
I’ve never met Professor Jason Arday. I don’t know whether he has genuinely run 600 miles in six days. I also genuinely don’t know the truth...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is on a roll. Docket his consistently robust responses to Hamas, Iran and NATO for future delectation. On July 13, he...
This year is set to be the year of psychedelics – Trump’s trip, you could call it. Since the President signed an executive order supporting the...
In a country full of brilliant food, the Garden Night Market in sultry Tainan, southwest Taiwan, is still a standout: a cheerful riot of steam, umami,...
The success of the Democratic Socialists of America in the June primaries has prompted much speculation about what it means, not only for the...
Ceuta is a small Spanish enclave. It would be very easy for the military to round-up everyone who has just stormed into it and return them to Morocco....
Andy Burnham has a boats problem – and no amount of glossy TikToks can make it go away. Since taking the top job, the Prime Minister has hit the...
It was a bare-bones demonstration of politics as theatre. Today, the Prime Minister went to Barrow-in-Furness on the Cumbrian coast to visit BAE...
Joe Root is to be the new captain of the England Test team. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has appointed him just over a month after Ben...
Energy prices have been on the rise again in recent weeks and fears of another inflationary shock are, again, on economists’ lips. For now, though,...
In a speech yesterday Andy Burnham promised that there will not just be ‘fair pay’ in social care but ‘bigger reform to improve the...
No. 10 (North and South alike) will be heartened by polling suggesting that the more the British public sees of Andy Burnham, the more they like him....
One of the lamentable side effects of the ultra-progressive wave that swept the western world in the mid-2010s was that it caused so many people to...
The cheaper bus fares will have to be paid for. So will the modest cut to electricity bills, along with the shelters to end rough sleeping. The new...
I’ve never met Professor Jason Arday. I don’t know whether he has genuinely run 600 miles in six days. I also genuinely don’t know the truth...
In his final hours in office, President Joe Biden issued a preemptive, blanket legal pardon for Dr Anthony Fauci, the most visible US health official...
I am cautiously optimistic about our new leader. For one thing, the fact that Mr Burnham went to Cambridge not Oxford, did not study PPE, is not a...
As soon as I opened my front door I could smell it. Along the path, flakes of white ash landed on my arms. Looking north beyond the cliff, I saw a...
I’ve always admired Jimmy Carr’s line on the distinction between old-fashioned communism and the newer, woker sort. ‘Instead of trying to...
The FIM-92 Stinger missile is not a subtle weapon. An anti-aircraft rocket, capable of launching a high-explosive ‘fire and forget’ laser-guided...
Remember Peter Parker? By the end of the last instalment of the Spider-Man movies, No Way Home, we were the only ones who could. Following a...
Ah, so that’s where the kangaroo comes in! Garsington Opera produces a souvenir mug each summer decorated with cartoons of that year’s operas. Buy...
Enid Marx once pondered ‘whether postage stamps are fine or industrial art. In my view the question rests on the quality of a design rather than its...
Of the three creative pursuits that give Charli XCX’s eighth album its title, the English pop star seems least interested in the first. She admits...
AI slop is not a new phenomenon. But it is becoming more prevalent as the lazy, the modish and the sub-literate take advantage of an apparently...
Plenty of critics have mocked Trainspotting – the musical (with lyrics and music by Irvine Welsh and Stephen McGuinness, respectively) but the...
Shepherd Market, W1, has many ghosts, some of whom are literary. In the shadow of Patrick Leigh Fermor’s former digs – the scene of ‘wild and...
It is hard to imagine many people will miss Sir Keir Starmer now he has gone. Perhaps, like phantom limb syndrome, he will continue to cause pain even...
There was something surreal about my visit to La Cité du Vin, Bordeaux’s wine museum, last Saturday. From the top floor, with its panoramic view of...
The Ford Capri is a paradigm of self-deception, but cars are men’s mirrors, and they want to be deceived by them. Thanks to The Professionals...
It was the day after The Spectator’s summer party and I was on my way to something called a death café. After an unknown quantity of Pol Roger the...
My father had been waiting his entire life for that whistle. After 75 years, the curse was over. Mayo were Gaelic football champions having overturned...
When Dwight D. Eisenhower had to decide whether to launch the D-Day armada he kept a close eye on the weather. Pick the wrong moment and the entire...
I have spent part of the past week thinking about imposter syndrome, and how we might be able to give it to more people. In an interview this week,...
Bordeaux and Madrid are threatened by flames. In Sicily, arsonists tied burning rags to the tails of cats to spread fires. Here in Britain the...
My father had been waiting his entire life for that whistle. After 75 years, the curse was over. Mayo were Gaelic football champions having overturned...
‘We love you, Nigel!’ In Clacton-on-Sea, there is little sign that the Reform leader’s star has waned. Campaigning with Farage here is a burst...
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