I am considering sticking on a pair of prosthetic breasts and applying for a job at Oxford University. The Spectator paying what it does, all of us columnists must have a side-hustle of sorts. Perhaps this could be mine.
Two worlds met in Paris last week. Thanks to the presence of Art Basel, some of the world’s most valuable art that wasn’t already in the city was shipped there. It arrived just in time for Paris to go up in flames.
Of all the things that have been hardest to communicate in my life, this seems the most impossible: that our civilization is not immortal
Even great things come to an end. There’s no guarantee that French culture and traditions will survive ceaseless attacks from discontents inside the country, writes Douglas Murray.
Between the cases of Christa Pike and Nidal Hasan, a set of interesting questions emerge about the most civilized means of execution
The departure of U.S. bombers from Britain may be a final warning to European leaders with no interest in fighting back against enemies of the West, writes Douglas Murray.
The London Underground used to be a happy place for authors. We would get into a carriage and see rows of people, studiously ignoring their neighbors – unless their neighbor was a dog – and reading a newspaper or an actual, physical book.
Some years ago I heard a moving story about Roy Jenkins. An unpromising start to any anecdote but stay with me. It involved a croquet match during the late period of his life – as Chancellor of the University of Oxford – when Jenkins had become one of the grander, not to say more pompous,
Some Republicans are turning against mass deportations, but there’s no other way to undo the harms of unchecked migration and reassert the law.
America leads the world in paying to make its young illiterate and innumerate. The school Hannah-Jones’s daughter went to is an exemplar
The 25th anniversary of the attacks came with almost no mention of the surviving terrorists and the failure to bring them to justice, writes Douglas Murray.
I’m trying to work out what the new rules are in this country. I think I’m getting there, though any Spectator readers who can assist might help me avoid an appearance at the local magistrates’ court. On political party funding, this week’s new rules seem clear.