The Spectator

The online world should be credited when it gets something right. And on Twitter an account titled ‘On This Day…

We will rue the day we all decided bullying was a bad thing. The consequence is that the inept, the…

‘Bernie beats Trump! Bernie beats Trump!’ That’s what Bernie Sanders’s fans keep chanting, and they have the polls to prove…

The fall from grace of Jean Vanier is truly a sad story. The founder of the L’Arche communities did extraordinary…

Devolved or decentralised? Sir: Paul Collier (‘Northern lights’, 22 February) conflates what devolution has come to mean, in UK terms, with…

The PM is insisting that the briefings he finds in his red box every evening should be, well, brief, and…

What a hole The World Health Organisation added processed meats to its list of ‘known’ carcinogens. A few of the…

I made the mistake of saying I thought insects might help feed the world. They are high-protein, cheap to farm…

Home The government told Britons returning from 11 quarantined towns in northern Italy to isolate themselves, for fear of spreading…

A cornerstone of any -functioning democracy is the separation of police and the courts on one hand, and government and…