Moscow is coming under direct drone attack, the Russian economy is creaking, patriotic bloggers are ever more apocalyptic in their predictions of military disaster and evidence is piling up that Russia’s elites are becoming seriously disillusioned with the war and Vladimir Putin himself. Is this the moment for Britain to desert Ukraine by easing ...
The deeper you look at how our civilisation has evolved since the Enlightenment, the brighter the deception shines. The first of these is that we live in a democratic state. Ostensibly, though not stated as such in Australia, a state by the people for the people. Across the Anglosphere, and Australia in particular, this is clearly a lie. Our so-called ...
Nothing can prepare you for the death of your father because, by definition, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime event. You have these ideas in your head about how it’s going to be: the children gathered at the bedside saying all the moving, important things that hitherto they’d held back; the fond paternal benison. But the reality, in my experience, is unlike ...
When I was growing up, a clear distinction was always made between right and wrong. It wasn’t as if my parents were particularly religious, but their view was that codes of conduct were vital.
A trivial example of this was the requirement to stick with an agreed acceptance. Daggy boy asks you to a school dance; you accept. Handsome boy from the cool ...
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, stands explicitly in the tradition of Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum 135 years ago. Both seek to uphold the dignity of human work in the age of the machine. The present Leo warns eloquently against building the Tower of Babel rather than, like Nehemiah, rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem by cooperation. He ...
The dramatic rise of One Nation, crystallised in the results of the South Australian election and the Farrer by-election, has focused attention on the threat it poses to the Coalition; there has been little discussion of the Teals. That’s a shame because Teals are facing their own extinction event.
Climate catastrophists have warned for decades of an ...
White to play. Keymer-Deac, Grand Chess Tour, Romania, 2026. Keymer found by far the strongest way to prosecute his attack. Which move did he play to force resignation? Email answers to chess@spectator.co.uk by Monday 1 June. There is a prize of a £20 John Lewis voucher for the first correct answer out of a hat. Please include a postal address and ...
Anyone who knows the Sixties can easily be reminded of the beauty and the authority of Sidney Poitier. The MTC production of Retrograde – a very sleek and attractive play by Ryan Calais Cameron – sees Alan Dale (the old Australian actor from The O.C.) play a studio lawyer who wants to ensure – no matter what skulduggery it involves – that Poitier ...
‘Italians are not inventing any new words,’ the head of the Italian language academy told the Telegraph. ‘They’re not creating anything. They take everything from English.’
Professor Paolo D’Achille is the head of the Accademia della Crusca, founded in 1583. Crusca means ‘bran’, which is what the academy wants to keep out of the fine flour of Italian. ...
St Peter’s Basilica is located near the Vatican Hill (in Latin Mons Vaticanus), across the River Tiber from the location of the seven hills upon which, according to Cicero and Plutarch, the city of Rome was founded. The area surrounding Mons Vaticanus was used by the Emperor Nero for Christian executions following the fire of 64 AD, including that of ...
Claridge’s grew nine storeys in the last decade: it’s a metaphor. The ornamental 1897 castle on Brook Street has expanded to fit the available space. Though it grew by half, it never closed, and workmen dug out the basement by hand. In one room, Claridge’s was a building site: in another, a dream world. We are trekking through metaphors now. We are up ...
Since the turn of the millennium, Australia has produced a long catalogue of poorly considered and badly designed public policies. The NBN. The NDIS. Gonski. Snowy 2.0. The list is extensive and expensive. Yet the Morrison government’s JobKeeper scheme deserves to sit near the top, ranked among the worst economic policy failures in Australia’s ...
Moscow is coming under direct drone attack, the Russian economy is creaking, patriotic bloggers are ever more apocalyptic in their predictions of military disaster and evidence is piling up that Russia’s elites are becoming seriously disillusioned with the war and Vladimir Putin himself. Is this the moment for Britain to desert Ukraine by easing ...
The deeper you look at how our civilisation has evolved since the Enlightenment, the brighter the deception shines. The first of these is that we live in a democratic state. Ostensibly, though not stated as such in Australia, a state by the people for the people. Across the Anglosphere, and Australia in particular, this is clearly a lie. Our so-called ...
Nothing can prepare you for the death of your father because, by definition, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime event. You have these ideas in your head about how it’s going to be: the children gathered at the bedside saying all the moving, important things that hitherto they’d held back; the fond paternal benison. But the reality, in my experience, is unlike ...
When I was growing up, a clear distinction was always made between right and wrong. It wasn’t as if my parents were particularly religious, but their view was that codes of conduct were vital.
A trivial example of this was the requirement to stick with an agreed acceptance. Daggy boy asks you to a school dance; you accept. Handsome boy from the cool ...
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, stands explicitly in the tradition of Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum 135 years ago. Both seek to uphold the dignity of human work in the age of the machine. The present Leo warns eloquently against building the Tower of Babel rather than, like Nehemiah, rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem by cooperation. He ...
The dramatic rise of One Nation, crystallised in the results of the South Australian election and the Farrer by-election, has focused attention on the threat it poses to the Coalition; there has been little discussion of the Teals. That’s a shame because Teals are facing their own extinction event.
Climate catastrophists have warned for decades of an ...
White to play. Keymer-Deac, Grand Chess Tour, Romania, 2026. Keymer found by far the strongest way to prosecute his attack. Which move did he play to force resignation? Email answers to chess@spectator.co.uk by Monday 1 June. There is a prize of a £20 John Lewis voucher for the first correct answer out of a hat. Please include a postal address and ...
Anyone who knows the Sixties can easily be reminded of the beauty and the authority of Sidney Poitier. The MTC production of Retrograde – a very sleek and attractive play by Ryan Calais Cameron – sees Alan Dale (the old Australian actor from The O.C.) play a studio lawyer who wants to ensure – no matter what skulduggery it involves – that Poitier ...
‘Italians are not inventing any new words,’ the head of the Italian language academy told the Telegraph. ‘They’re not creating anything. They take everything from English.’
Professor Paolo D’Achille is the head of the Accademia della Crusca, founded in 1583. Crusca means ‘bran’, which is what the academy wants to keep out of the fine flour of Italian. ...
St Peter’s Basilica is located near the Vatican Hill (in Latin Mons Vaticanus), across the River Tiber from the location of the seven hills upon which, according to Cicero and Plutarch, the city of Rome was founded. The area surrounding Mons Vaticanus was used by the Emperor Nero for Christian executions following the fire of 64 AD, including that of ...
Claridge’s grew nine storeys in the last decade: it’s a metaphor. The ornamental 1897 castle on Brook Street has expanded to fit the available space. Though it grew by half, it never closed, and workmen dug out the basement by hand. In one room, Claridge’s was a building site: in another, a dream world. We are trekking through metaphors now. We are up ...
Since the turn of the millennium, Australia has produced a long catalogue of poorly considered and badly designed public policies. The NBN. The NDIS. Gonski. Snowy 2.0. The list is extensive and expensive. Yet the Morrison government’s JobKeeper scheme deserves to sit near the top, ranked among the worst economic policy failures in Australia’s ...
