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Rutland is to be abolished for the second time, having first been taken off the map in 1974 but then reinstated in the mid-1990s. Some other lost...
Watch the livestream of Tim Shipman meets Nick Clegg on Monday 20 July at 7pm here. With a journalism career spanning nearly three decades, Tim...
We currently know more about what Count Binface would do in power than Andy Burnham. The joke candidate in the Clacton by-election has published a...
We currently know more about what Count Binface would do in power than Andy Burnham. The joke candidate in the Clacton by-election has published a...
We currently know more about what Count Binface would do in power than Andy Burnham. The joke candidate in the Clacton by-election has published a...
Andy Burnham is a lucky politician. And Nigel Farage has just given him another piece of surprising good fortune. The Reform leader’s decision to...
Luther Martin: a voluble and drunken Maryland attorney who walked out of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 after warning his fellow delegates that...
Luther Martin: a voluble and drunken Maryland attorney who walked out of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 after warning his fellow delegates that...
Welcome to the cabaret, Andy Burnham. Last year, the editor of this magazine wrote about ‘Weimar Britain’: the fear that political instability,...
An irresponsible drama Sir: Britain is faced with a fabricated panic which has prioritised personality over policy. Keir Starmer has been forced out...
The Founding Fathers may have modelled America on Ancient Rome, but they would have found the ersatz gladiatorial spectacle Donald Trump mounted at...
The Founding Fathers may have modelled America on Ancient Rome, but they would have found the ersatz gladiatorial spectacle Donald Trump mounted at...
Few critiques of British mythmaking have been more astute than that of Correlli Barnett. He argued that 18th-century statesmen were hardheaded...
So far, Labour has staged a contested leadership election in government only once – 50 years ago, in 1976. The New Economics Foundation once...
Amid the rubble of this government lies a tattered standard – the regimental colours of the current Labour party. The blue and gold of Brussels is...
Amid the rubble of this government lies a tattered standard – the regimental colours of the current Labour party. The blue and gold of Brussels is...
Three people were reported to have died in an outbreak of hantavirus on a cruise ship returning to Europe from Antarctica. How likely are you to fall...
Three people were reported to have died in an outbreak of hantavirus on a cruise ship returning to Europe from Antarctica. How likely are you to fall...
To eradicate a virus, one needs precision. The origin of the threat needs to be identified, as do the circumstances of its incubation and spread, and...
The Book of Common Prayer asks that those who ‘suffer for the sake of conscience’ might be strengthened. Those prayers were answered on Tuesday...
When Britons go to the polls next month, the results will likely reveal just how un-United the Kingdom has become. Separatist parties are poised to...
When Britons go to the polls next month, the results will likely reveal just how un-United the Kingdom has become. Separatist parties are poised to...
Join The Spectator on Tuesday 14 April via livestream for Is AI a threat to humanity?. Michael Gove, The Spectator’s editor, is joined...
You might describe it as the Polanski paradox. The party which calls itself Green, which has concern for the environment as its raison d’être, has...
Editorial errors, ideological bias and partisan presenters – what has happened to the BBC? Watch The Spectator’s Charles Moore, who was fined...
Donald Trump may be the volatile leader of an unstable coalition. America’s numerous interventions in the Middle East may have been marked by chaos,...
George III has not been well remembered on either side of the Atlantic. Despite reigning for almost 60 years, in Britain he is known, if at all, for...
Hurtwood House, Surrey Set in the Surrey Hills, Hurtwood House is England’s only independent boarding school exclusively for sixth-formers. Renowned...
Economic forecasting was created, J.K. Galbraith said, to make astrology look respectable. It is not difficult to imagine what the great Keynesian...
Economic forecasting was created, J.K. Galbraith said, to make astrology look respectable. It is not difficult to imagine what the great Keynesian...
Economic forecasting was created, J.K. Galbraith said, to make astrology look respectable. It is not difficult to imagine what the great Keynesian...
Before the first missiles landed in Tehran, Rachel Reeves had been looking forward to today’s spring ‘forecast’ statement, which was designed to...
At The Spectator’s Alternative Covid Inquiry last night, science writer and journalist Matt Ridley; Sunetra Gupta, Professor of Theoretical...
Join us for The Spectator’s Alternative Covid Inquiry tonight via livestream at 7pm. Six years after the world shut down, we’re still examining...
Join The Spectator for an unforgettable evening with John Rhys-Davies via livestream on Wednesday 18 February at 7pm. Widely regarded as having one...