Can the last ‘working person’ in Britain please turn out the lights?
Click here to view the latest charts on our data hub
Festive failure / John Lewis’s Christmas advert might be its worst yet
Budget / Reeves's tax rises will mark the beginning of a long end for Labour
Sudan / Do black lives still matter?
Far right / Don’t fear the bogeyman
Books / Was Cat Stevens the inspiration for Carly Simon’s ‘You’re So Vain’?
Opera / A cracking little 1967 opera that we ought to see more often
Burn notice / Hands off my wood-burning stove!
Knitwit / The unravelling of Tom Daley
Jet set / Airlines are finally making an effort
Far right / Don’t fear the bogeyman
Books / Was Cat Stevens the inspiration for Carly Simon’s ‘You’re So Vain’?
Opera / A cracking little 1967 opera that we ought to see more often
Burn notice / Hands off my wood-burning stove!
From Spectator Life
Knitwit / The unravelling of Tom Daley
From Spectator Life
Jet set / Airlines are finally making an effort
From Spectator Life
Latest from Coffee House
All the latest analysis of the day's news
Badenoch has a new favourite word: work
Britain’s stingy state pension is good news
What does Rachel Reeves really mean that we must all ‘do our bit’?
The Israel-Lebanon ceasefire is in danger of shattering
Is it all over for Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie?
Can the European Convention on Human Rights survive?
Grade inflation is harming a generation of school children
Jeffrey Epstein may yet wreak more havoc on Keir Starmer
Blow for Scottish Tories as Reform gain another councillor
Event
Debate: Leave our private schools alone!
Most popular
Writers
Spectator Life
An intelligent mix of culture, food, style and property, plus where to go and what to see.
Hands off my wood-burning stove!
From Spectator Life
Winter is coming. Thank goodness
From Spectator Life
Give Baltimore a chance
From Spectator Life
The secret of Hungary’s genius
From Spectator Life
The unravelling of Tom Daley
From Spectator LifePoor Tom Daley. The cherubic diver, who dazzled as a 14-year-old at the Peking Olympics, turning the heads of Chinese girls like spinning jennies, seems to have banged his head on the board once too often. He won friends everywhere with his easy manner and Colgate smile. The boy next door, people thought, who ran
Airlines are finally making an effort
From Spectator Life
Magazine
This week's magazine
The Devil rides out
The dangers of the new occult
How the occult captured the modern mind
The British science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, proposed a ‘law of science’ in 1968: ‘Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.’ Clarke’s proposition had a quality of rightness, of stating the obvious with sparkling clarity, that propelled it into dictionaries of quotations. The timing was perfect: Concorde would
How the occult captured the modern mind
The British science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, proposed a ‘law of science’ in 1968: ‘Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.’ Clarke’s proposition had a quality of rightness, of stating the obvious with sparkling clarity, that propelled it into dictionaries of quotations. The timing was perfect: Concorde would
Hex appeal: the rise of middle-class witches
Satanic verses: the origins of Roman Catholic black metal
The gym, the hairdresser, the campaign trail: the inside story of Kemi’s first year
‘People can’t take a joke these days’: Michael Heath on wokeness, The Spectator and turning 90
Culture
The good, the bad and the ugly in books, exhibitions, cinema, TV, dance, music, podcasts and theatre.
Remembering The Spectator’s chief art critic Laura Gascoigne (1950-2025)
Readers of this journal will be shocked at the death of Laura Gascoigne, the brilliant chief art critic at 22 Old Queen Street for five years (2020-24), in succession to Martin Gayford. She contributed over 200 articles to The Spectator between 2001 and 2024 that would well deserve being reprinted in a compendium of art
A cracking little 1967 opera that we ought to see more often
From the magazineThere is little sadder than the death of a language
From the magazine
Unesco are idiots
From the magazine
The joy of Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
From the magazine
Dimes Square on screen
From the magazine
Let’s face it, Sleeping Beauty is a bit of a bore
From the magazine
Cartoons
‘‘Let’s increase taxes for everyone earning over an MP’s pay.’ ’
Cartoon
‘‘She could have bought another cappuccino with that.’’
Cartoon
Cartoon
