When Mandelson could bring down Starmer
Click here to view the latest charts on our data hub
Trump targets Iran’s ‘crown jewel’ in massive US bombing raid
War on Iran was not ‘unprovoked’
How the Nazis used vanity to lure pilots to their deaths
How to master the left-wing brag
Too much green / Did Hannah Spencer’s outfit distract from her maiden speech?
Scotland / Scottish devolution has failed
Naughty corner / Why the ‘school wars’ are overblown
Latest from Coffee House
All the latest analysis of the day's news
Is it cruel or kind to sign someone off work for anxiety?
Labour’s lawfare has broken British army morale
Don’t force Catholics to abide by assisted dying
What Signalgate tells us about Iran
Transport could be Reform’s new battleground
Glasgow needs protecting
The Mandy files have shown the grubby side of the British state
The inconvenient truth about Britain’s ‘nuclear renaissance’
Net zero is destroying Britain’s car industry
Spectator TV Presents
Is Britain still a great power? – what the Middle East crisis reveals | Quite right!
Most popular
Writers
Spectator Life
An intelligent mix of culture, food, style and property, plus where to go and what to see.
We’re all ‘sapiosexual’ now
From Spectator Life
England’s rugby team and Labour are both set to lose
From Spectator Life
Four more bets for day three of the Cheltenham Festival
From Spectator Life
You can judge a private school by how it cares for its chapel
From Spectator Life
Why the ‘school wars’ are overblown
From Spectator LifeThe recent ‘school wars’ farrago was an act of madness – or, more accurately, Madness. ‘All the kids have gone away/Gone to fight with next door’s school/Every term that is the rule’. So the Camden ska band sang on ‘Baggy Trousers’, their 1980 classic about their school days. Schoolchildren organising to duff up their contemporaries is not new; social media
Four bets for Gold Cup day at the Cheltenham Festival
From Spectator Life
Event
The Fight for the Right: Conservatives vs Reform
Magazine
This week's magazine
Epic fail
How Trump’s gamble backfired
‘We don’t know what’s going on or why we’re doing this’: how Trump’s Iran gamble backfired
‘Donald Trump is a complicated person with simple ideas,’ said Kellyanne Conway, the former White House senior counsellor. ‘Way too many politicians are the exact opposite.’ It’s a good way of understanding the 45th and 47th US President and his extraordinary success. His turbulent personality causes mayhem, yet his political aims have remained constant, straightforward
‘We don’t know what’s going on or why we’re doing this’: how Trump’s Iran gamble backfired
‘Donald Trump is a complicated person with simple ideas,’ said Kellyanne Conway, the former White House senior counsellor. ‘Way too many politicians are the exact opposite.’ It’s a good way of understanding the 45th and 47th US President and his extraordinary success. His turbulent personality causes mayhem, yet his political aims have remained constant, straightforward
Revealed: Keir Starmer’s new plan to get closer to the EU
‘Here’s a novel concept – arrest bad people’: how Sir Stephen Watson turned around Greater Manchester Police
How the Germans saved the Telegraph
Those who believe in liberalism must now fight for it
Culture
The good, the bad and the ugly in books, exhibitions, cinema, TV, dance, music, podcasts and theatre.
Fractured loyalties: The Tribe, by Michael Arditti, reviewed
From the magazineMichael Arditti’s impressive and immersive family saga begins in Salonica (now Thessaloniki) in 1911 and follows the fortunes of the wealthy, powerful Carrache family who are part of the Sephardic Jewish community. They have lived in the city for two centuries and employ more than 1,000 people. The father of the family, Jacob, is ‘a
Blockchain fantasies: My Bags Are Big, by Tibor Fischer, reviewed
From the magazineNintendo and the plumber who conquered the world
From the magazine
Lloyd Blankfein – guiding light of Goldman Sachs
From the magazine
The world destroyed by madness: Howl, by Howard Jacobson, reviewed
From the magazine
Frederic Prokosch – the man who seemed to know everyone
From the magazine
Caught between Hitler and Bomber Command – the Berliners’ cruel predicament
From the magazine
Cartoons
‘‘It’s a rough area.’’
Cartoon
‘‘I’m bunking off from home school.’’
Cartoon
‘‘This is Miss Stapleforth, in charge of the pupils’ predicted grades.’’
Cartoon
