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Jeremy Corbyn’s Brexit confusion continues

Isabel Hardman

Battle lines drawn ahead of Labour conference

Katy Balls

Britain may have lost faith – but Germany still believes in the EU

William Cook

Jeremy Corbyn’s Uber memory lapse

Steerpike

Art nouveau owes a lot to this dodgy German biologist and his dazzling illustrations

Laura Gascoigne

J.M. Coetzee’s essays are filtered through boundless reserves of knowledge, wisdom and reading

Neel Mukherjee

iPhone 8 Plus, unveiled last week at the new Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Headquarters, Cupertino, California. The new features include a Retina HD display, A11 Bionic Chip and wireless charging

How the iPhone came to rule the world

Rory Sutherland

War horse: horse headdress made of felt, leather and wood, late 4th–early 3rd century BC

Pot-smoking warriors who attached enemy bodyparts to their horses: Scythians reviewed

‘Cnidarians’ from Haeckel’s book Art Forms in Nature, 1899–1904

Art nouveau owes a lot to this dodgy German biologist and his dazzling illustrations

Laura Gascoigne

‘The Angel of Mercy’, c.1746, by Joseph Highmore

The painting that revealed the shocking truth of being a woman in Georgian society

‘The Japanese’ by Hans Makart, 1870–75

How do artists vanish?

Two triumphant 'little greats' from Opera North

Someone in the BBC will be watching W1A, thinking ‘that’s a great idea (going forward)’

The rivals: Shia LaBeouf as John McEnroe and Sverrir Gudnason as Bjorn Borg in Borg vs McEnroe

It gets us from A to B but doesn’t dazzle: Borg vs McEnroe reviewed

In praise of Radio 2

Modishly morose but full of fine moments: LCD Soundsystem's American Dream reviewed

How the iPhone came to rule the world

Don’t get too excited about a November rate rise – we’ve been here before

Alfred the Great’s victory over the Vikings is our foundation myth; Viking Britain reviewed

In praise of Radio 2

I’d prepared for the worst, but Kenya’s election has me – finally – living in hope

Laikipia, Kenya Following Kenya’s recently concluded elections, I took a walk on my Laikipia farm and lit up a cigar,

Propositioned by the most popular tourist guide in Singapore

I got off the plane at Changi still pleasantly sedated by Xanax, passed through the ‘nothing to declare’ channel, and

BT and the seventh circle of junk-mail hell

BT have just put the phone down on me for asking them to stop sending me junk mail, which is

Twitter trolls made a sporting tragedy so much worse

Racing moves off the back pages only when its opponents have bad news to gloat over. Two examples lately have

Warhol’s obscene legacy

As everyone who stands up when a lady enters the room knows, the once sacrosanct rules of civility throughout the

The Sadiq Khan silencing row continues

Watch: Clive Lewis and Caroline Flint’s Brexit bust-up

Jeremy Corbyn’s Brexit confusion continues

Jeremy Corbyn’s Uber memory lapse

Battle lines drawn ahead of Labour conference

Labour’s conference, day one: The Spectator guide

Can evolution solve the mystery of why Jeremy Corbyn did so well at the last election?

Befriending Laura Pidcock: an interview with a Labour firebrand

‘Long and vain’: Europe’s press reacts to Theresa May’s Florence speech

Britain may have lost faith – but Germany still believes in the EU

The big questions Theresa May must answer

Jacob Rees-Mogg sees red

Is my euroscepticism partly down to a delayed teenage rebellion?

Aung San Suu Kyi was never a saint to start with and she is not a demon now

Is America’s ‘despair epidemic’ about to arrive in Britain?

The Brexiteers own optimism just as Remainers claim reason

May’s Florence speech is a blueprint for keeping Britain in the EU as an ‘associate’ member

Are old white men really to blame for climate change denial?

May’s Brexit speech leaves some key questions unanswered

A Brexit transition deal could make things worse

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