Number crunching / Is Labour’s first Budget coming unstuck?
Kemi's time / Kemi Badenoch is a gamble the Tories must take
Politics / Cleverly gains momentum as Tory MPs prepare to vote
L'enfer, c'est les autos / Hell is driving in Paris
Capital punishment / Does Singapore’s death penalty really deter drug crimes?
Run aground / How New Zealand managed to sink a tenth of its naval fleet
Missed delivery / Royal Mail is a right royal mess
From Spectator LifeHidden signs / Hunting for the lost blue plaques
From Spectator LifeSea food / Gutweed and bladderwrack? Yum!
From Spectator LifeL'enfer, c'est les autos / Hell is driving in Paris
Capital punishment / Does Singapore’s death penalty really deter drug crimes?
Run aground / How New Zealand managed to sink a tenth of its naval fleet
Missed delivery / Royal Mail is a right royal mess
From Spectator LifeHidden signs / Hunting for the lost blue plaques
From Spectator LifeSea food / Gutweed and bladderwrack? Yum!
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Yousaf under fire for blasting officials in Covid WhatsApps
Without Navalny, Russia’s opposition is tearing itself apart
The SNP’s controversial social care plan hits another roadblock
Labour lead slashed to one point
Boris slams ‘greedy’ Starmer over freebie fiasco
When will Germany’s economy bounce back?
Hamish Falconer and the trouble with Labour’s ‘Red Princes’
Sue Gray’s allies turn on Starmer
Was Hamas’s massacre the Middle East’s Franz Ferdinand moment?
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Gutweed and bladderwrack? Yum!
From Spectator LifeObesity will soon be history
From Spectator LifeEuston station is the best of London
From Spectator LifeOur many signs of confusion
From Spectator LifeRoyal Mail is a right royal mess
From Spectator LifeBenjamin Franklin famously said that there are only two certainties in life: death, and taxes. It turns out there is a third: Royal Mail not delivering post on time. I live in East Oxford, where Royal Mail has not met its target of delivering 91.5 per cent of all first-class mail by the next working
Hunting for the lost blue plaques
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Israel’s revenge
Israel is reshaping the Middle East in its favour
Iran has fallen into the trap set by Israel. It has taken the bait after months of failing to respond to a series of devastating – and humiliating – attacks, which decapitated its Lebanese militia, Hezbollah, and killed the leader of Hamas in Tehran. But the regime may have self-immolated by firing missiles at Israel
Israel is reshaping the Middle East in its favour
Iran has fallen into the trap set by Israel. It has taken the bait after months of failing to respond to a series of devastating – and humiliating – attacks, which decapitated its Lebanese militia, Hezbollah, and killed the leader of Hamas in Tehran. But the regime may have self-immolated by firing missiles at Israel
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A stone-cold banger: Black Myth – Wukong reviewed
From the magazineGrade: A Remember the mad 1970s TV series Monkey? Here, excitingly, is the closest you’ll get to it in videogame form. In a pre-credit sequence, you are the Monkey King, Sun Wukong, and you not only fly about on a little cloud but suffer from that headache-inducing circlet on your bonce. The main game is
Melodramatic body-horror – but I don’t regret seeing it: A Different Man reviewed
From the magazineFaultless visuals – shame about the play: the National’s Coriolanus reviewed
From the magazineHeartfelt and thought-provoking: Eugene Onegin, at the Royal Opera, reviewed
From the magazineHave today’s TV dramatists completely given up on plausibility?
From the magazineWhat has become of the Wellcome Collection?
From the magazineThe world is on fire – yet navel-gazing still reigns in pop
From the magazineCartoons
‘‘I hope this doesn’t degenerate into a Tory leadership contest.’’
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‘‘I’m having it fun checked.’’
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‘‘Heh, good luck with that!’’
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