SUBSCRIBE | TRY A MONTH FREE Subscribe
Close
  • Coffee House
    • UK POLITICS
    • EU
    • BREXIT
    • US POLITICS
    • RELIGION
    • STEERPIKE
    • CULTURE
    • COFFEE HOUSE SHOTS PODCAST
  • Magazine
    • FEATURES
    • COLUMNISTS
    • BOOKS
    • ARTS
    • LIFE
    • CARTOONS
  • Radio
    • THE SPECTATOR PODCAST
    • COFFEE HOUSE SHOTS
    • AMERICANO
    • WOMEN WITH BALLS
    • BOOKS PODCAST
    • THE GREEN ROOM
    • TABLE TALK
    • HOLY SMOKE
  • Writers
    • ROD LIDDLE
    • NICK COHEN
    • DOUGLAS MURRAY
    • FRASER NELSON
    • JAMES FORSYTH
    • ISABEL HARDMAN
    • LIONEL SHRIVER
  • Books & Arts
    • ARTS
    • BOOKS
    • BOOKS PODCAST
    • CULTURE HOUSE DAILY
  • Life
  • EVENTS
  • More
    • SHOP
    • CARTOONS
    • 2020 DIARY
    • GIFTS
    • EMAIL BULLETINS
    • WINE CLUB
    • SPECTATOR CLUB
SUBSCRIBE | TRY A MONTH FREE

David Horspool

Jeremy Corbyn is taking Labour back to the 1640s

David Horspool 7 January 2017 9:00 am

Jeremy Corbyn will probably enjoy this book — which doesn’t mean you won’t. Asked to name the historical figure he…

Young Henry – England’s lost king

David Horspool 17 September 2016 9:00 am

It is one of the great set-pieces of high drama in English history. The king, shamed by his part in…

Just two of many controversial Games: Hitler’s racist jamboree in Berlin (above right); and the Stockholm Olympics, in which the brilliant Native American Jim Thorpe — sometimes regarded as the greatest athlete of all time — was stripped of his gold medals

The modern Olympics have always been a fiasco

David Horspool 30 July 2016 8:00 am

There’s nothing new about lying and cheating at the Olympics. Scandal has dogged the Games for well over a century, says David Horspool

The Easter Rising’s road to hell — paved with good intentions

David Horspool 9 April 2016 9:00 am

While reading this book in a London café, I was politely buttonholed by an Irishman: ‘Sorry to disturb you, but…

The Peasants’ Revolt — such a thrilling moment in English history — has eluded novelists in the past

David Horspool 29 October 2015 9:00 am

Considering that it was, as Melvyn Bragg rightly puts it, ‘the biggest popular uprising ever experienced in England’, the Peasants’…

Best shot

David Horspool 5 March 2011 12:00 am

A match to make you see the point of football

Ready to rebel? You are part of a glorious tradition

David Horspool 29 July 2009 12:00 am

Angry disenchantment with the political and financial establishment has rarely been deeper. David Horspool says that the English rebel — culturally affronted rather than ideologically left-wing — is an honourable archetype of our nation’s history

Follow us

Follow us on Twitter @spectator Like us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram @spectatorlife
Click here to find out more about subscribing to The Spectator’s free podcasts

Most Popular

  • Read
  • Recent
  • Read
    1. ‘It’s not Jeremy’s fault’: what Corbynistas are blaming for Labour’s disastrous defeat

      Steerpike

    2. The fall of Labour’s ‘Red Wall’ is a moment to celebrate

      Brendan O'Neill

    3. Boris’s big win is a decisive moment in the battle for Brexit

      Patrick O'Flynn

    4. The new Conservatism begins today

      James Forsyth

    5. Never underestimate Boris Johnson

      Bruce Anderson

    6. Two big blunders that will be remembered from this election

      Robert Peston

    7. What happens to ex-MPs?

      Isabel Hardman

    8. The three ‘C’s’ that explain Boris’s historic election win

      Robert Peston

    9. Politics has fractured along new fault lines – those elected must repair the cracks

      The Spectator

    10. This could be Boris’s ‘Nixon goes to China’ moment

      Ashoka Mody

  • Recent
    1. What happens to ex-MPs?

      Isabel Hardman

    2. Sunday shows round-up: McDonnell – ‘I am to blame for election disaster’

      Matthew Taylor

    3. Never underestimate Boris Johnson

      Bruce Anderson

    4. This could be Boris’s ‘Nixon goes to China’ moment

      Ashoka Mody

    5. The Edition podcast: what to expect from a new Conservative era

      Cindy Yu

    6. Corbyn’s Labour was backed by 10m voters. We’re defeated, but not finished

      Maurice Mcleod

    7. The Tories know they must deliver for their new voters

      James Forsyth

    8. What Donald Trump must learn from Boris Johnson’s triumph

      Daniel McCarthy

    9. Boris Johnson couldn’t have done it without the Brexit party

      Claire Fox

    10. Spectator competition winners: Alan Bennett writes to Santa Claus

      Lucy Vickery

Editor’s Choice

Who will take on the behemoths of Big Tech?

Andrew Sullivan: The evidence against Trump is overwhelming

I’ll take Russian democracy over ours

More juicy gossip from Kenneth ‘Climbing’ Rose

Cartoons

‘Voting for it? I’ve been campaigning for it.’
‘The image of the child in the manger in the stable has gone viral.’
‘I think we might ease up on Barry’s steroids, Mrs Stephens.’
‘Let’s get the festivities started — by going round the table revealing which way we voted.’
‘The sixpence is subject to a windfall tax.’

Follow us on Twitter @spectator Like us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram @spectatorlife
  • About
    • Contact Us
    • FAQs
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms and Conditions
    • Jobs and Vacancies
  • More from The Spectator
    • Spectator USA
    • The Spectator Australia
    • Apollo Magazine
    • The Spectator Shop
  • Advertising
    • Classified Advertisements
    • Advertising Terms and Conditions
  • Subscribe
    • Club
The Spectator, 22 Old Queen Street, London, SW1H 9HP
+44 (0)3303 330 050+44 (0)3303 333 9403
Site maintained by Creode
Close
  • Coffee House
    • UK POLITICS
    • EU
    • BREXIT
    • US POLITICS
    • RELIGION
    • STEERPIKE
    • CULTURE
    • COFFEE HOUSE SHOTS PODCAST
  • Magazine
    • FEATURES
    • COLUMNISTS
    • BOOKS
    • ARTS
    • LIFE
    • CARTOONS
  • Radio
    • THE SPECTATOR PODCAST
    • COFFEE HOUSE SHOTS
    • AMERICANO
    • WOMEN WITH BALLS
    • BOOKS PODCAST
    • THE GREEN ROOM
    • TABLE TALK
    • HOLY SMOKE
  • Writers
    • ROD LIDDLE
    • NICK COHEN
    • DOUGLAS MURRAY
    • FRASER NELSON
    • JAMES FORSYTH
    • ISABEL HARDMAN
    • LIONEL SHRIVER
  • Books & Arts
    • ARTS
    • BOOKS
    • BOOKS PODCAST
    • CULTURE HOUSE DAILY
  • Life
  • EVENTS
  • More
    • SHOP
    • CARTOONS
    • 2020 DIARY
    • GIFTS
    • EMAIL BULLETINS
    • WINE CLUB
    • SPECTATOR CLUB