The Iran war is expanding rapidly
Click here to view the latest charts on our data hub
Economy / What to expect from Rachel Reeves’s spring statement
Iran / The Middle East’s Muslims are cheering Khamenei’s death
WW3 / The war in Iran should teach Britain some lessons
Books / Nights at the Lutetia – the dark history of a luxury hotel
Books / ‘He never drew a peaceful breath’: the tormented life of Henry VII
Books / Women have never had it so good as now
Enfant terrible / Serge Gainsbourg would not survive modern France
Retail therapy / How Gen Z became indebted to ‘doom spending’
Silver surfers / Your AI Granny will speak to you now
Books / Nights at the Lutetia – the dark history of a luxury hotel
Books / ‘He never drew a peaceful breath’: the tormented life of Henry VII
Books / Women have never had it so good as now
Enfant terrible / Serge Gainsbourg would not survive modern France
From Spectator Life
Retail therapy / How Gen Z became indebted to ‘doom spending’
From Spectator Life
Silver surfers / Your AI Granny will speak to you now
From Spectator Life
High priests of paralysis / International law is not a suicide pact
Latest from Coffee House
All the latest analysis of the day's news
Why Europe is terrified of standing up to Iran
Labour’s migration bind
Greens hit second place in polls
The bond markets aren’t done with Rachel Reeves
Badenoch’s integration speech is too little, too late
Have the Brits forgotten what a song actually is?
Morrissey is the last rock rebel
Chaos in Iran spells trouble for the Taliban
Starmer has few good options on Iran
Spectator TV Presents
‘MPs are just not good enough’ – Munira Mirza on Boris, Starmer and Britain’s leadership crisis | Quite right!
Most popular
Writers
Spectator Life
An intelligent mix of culture, food, style and property, plus where to go and what to see.
How Gen Z became indebted to ‘doom spending’
From Spectator Life
Will Bradford survive Britain’s curry house crisis?
From Spectator Life
The joy of a launderette
From Spectator Life
Ice and identity in Lublin, Poland's forgotten city
From Spectator Life
Serge Gainsbourg would not survive modern France
From Spectator LifeYesterday marked the 35th anniversary of the death of Serge Gainsbourg at 62 from a heart attack. The only real surprise is that he ever made it to such an age. Gainsbourg, whose unlovely but strangely beguiling countenance can best be likened to a garden gnome left outside in the rain for too long, was
Your AI Granny will speak to you now
From Spectator Life
Event
The Tory Dilemma: deal or no deal?
Magazine
This week's magazine
Banking on it
The City’s hold over Rachel Reeves
‘It’s a Faustian pact’: Rachel Reeves is giving bankers what they want
The Epstein files lift the curtain on how power is exercised and influence traded by our financial elite. It is not a cheering sight. Business and economic gurus like the former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers asking for dating advice from a convicted paedophile does not build confidence in the masters of the universe. Distasteful
‘It’s a Faustian pact’: Rachel Reeves is giving bankers what they want
The Epstein files lift the curtain on how power is exercised and influence traded by our financial elite. It is not a cheering sight. Business and economic gurus like the former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers asking for dating advice from a convicted paedophile does not build confidence in the masters of the universe. Distasteful
Culture
The good, the bad and the ugly in books, exhibitions, cinema, TV, dance, music, podcasts and theatre.
Marvellous but repetitious: Gwen John – Strange Beauties reviewed
From the magazineA pilgrimage to Cardiff Central, sorry, Caerdydd Canolog (according to the signage in the station, which also had my return train’s destination ‘Lundain Padd’ton’) to see the new Gwen John show. She is being lauded as Wales’s greatest artist, but she left Tenby at 18 in 1895, and never went back. After studying at the
U2’s childlike response to world affairs
From the magazineThe blandness of Hugh Bonneville
From the magazine
Fascinating: EPiC – Elvis Presley in Concert reviewed
From the magazine
Enjoyably old-fashioned: ITV’s The Lady reviewed
From the magazine
A playful, big-hearted, intelligent new opera
From the magazine
The genius of John Vanbrugh
From the magazine
Cartoons
‘‘Ah, spring! I expect the humans have sorted out most of their problems by now.’’
Cartoon
Cartoon
‘‘You’ll have to wait until I’ve gone through your emails.’’
Cartoon
