Payton’s place
Netflix’s The Politician is satire without purpose
Books & Arts
The pod delusion
Why I hate all podcasts — even the ones I like
Leonardo da Virtual
Mass tourism has overwhelmed our major museums. Could virtual reality be the solution?
We are all Greta now
A lot of children’s literature today is horribly right-on
The haunting of Russell Kirk
The founding father of 20th-century American conservatism was also a connoisseur of the supernatural and a bestselling novelist
The Spectator’s Books of the Year 2019
Spectator contributors choose their favorite titles of 2019
The call of the wild
Pod help you in the wilderness
Star Wars: the force a-weakens
In space, no one can hear you yawn
The boy on the hillside
A short story by Susan Hill
Christmas crackers: the tragic soul of Natalie Cole
Natalie Cole had an instant pocket pop career. Her family, she said, were like ‘the black Kennedys’; and look how the Kennedys turned out