Rwanda revisited / Does Starmer have the gall to send asylum seekers to Albania?
Freebies / Keir Starmer and his wife don’t need a personal shopper
France / Will Michel Barnier govern for the provinces or for Paris?
Listen up / Oasis obsessives should broaden their horizons
Books / Man’s fraught relationship with nature extends back to prehistory
From the magazineBooks / From ugly duckling into swan – the remarkable transformation of Pamela Digby
From the magazineLost magic / Remaking Harry Potter is risky
From Spectator LifePhnom Penh / Cambodia’s return to joy
From Spectator LifeUninvited / When family invade your privacy
From Spectator LifeListen up / Oasis obsessives should broaden their horizons
Books / Man’s fraught relationship with nature extends back to prehistory
From the magazineBooks / From ugly duckling into swan – the remarkable transformation of Pamela Digby
From the magazineLost magic / Remaking Harry Potter is risky
From Spectator LifePhnom Penh / Cambodia’s return to joy
From Spectator LifeUninvited / When family invade your privacy
From Spectator LifeLatest from Coffee House
All the latest analysis of the day's news
Electric vehicle targets are completely pointless
Can Starmer’s border security commander ‘smash the gangs’?
Is Austria’s far-right Freedom Party heading for victory?
Man in custody after ‘assassination attempt’ on Donald Trump
Lib Dems take a swipe at JD Vance
David Lammy: Labour ‘won’t be bullied by Putin’s shameless grandstanding’
David Lammy’s lamentable media round
The ONS finally admits to flawed trans population statistics
Will France’s school uniform experiment foster égalité?
Spectator TV Presents
Andrew Roberts hits back at Churchill revisionist Darryl Cooper from the Tucker Carlson show
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An intelligent mix of culture, food, style and property, plus where to go and what to see.
When family invade your privacy
From Spectator LifeThree bets for the Doncaster St Leger card
From Spectator LifeThe joy of rescuing battery hens
From Spectator LifeI’m glad my parents track me
From Spectator LifeCambodia’s return to joy
From Spectator LifeIn Cambodia, everybody is looking forward to Bon Om Touk. If your Khmer is a bit rusty, this means the mid-autumn New Moon Water Festival, celebrated in late October. This fervent, noisy, firework-banging festival has multiple, colourful meanings. For a start, it marks the end of the endless summer rain – which turns everyone’s laundry
Remaking Harry Potter is risky
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Game on
America’s very unpredictable election
There’s still everything to play for in America’s election
The first presidential debate of 2024 changed history by killing off Joe Biden’s career. The second presidential debate was nowhere near as dramatic, for the simple reason that it did not feature the President. Instead, Kamala Harris, Biden’s Vice President and now the Democratic party’s nominee, stood on stage at the National Constitution Center in
There’s still everything to play for in America’s election
The first presidential debate of 2024 changed history by killing off Joe Biden’s career. The second presidential debate was nowhere near as dramatic, for the simple reason that it did not feature the President. Instead, Kamala Harris, Biden’s Vice President and now the Democratic party’s nominee, stood on stage at the National Constitution Center in
Culture
The good, the bad and the ugly in books, exhibitions, cinema, TV, dance, music, podcasts and theatre.
The problem with Klaus Makela
From the magazineKlaus Makela is kind of a big deal. He’s a pupil of the Finnish conducting guru Jorma Panula – the so-called ‘Yoda of conducting’ – and he’s chief conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic as well as the Orchestre de Paris. Within the next three years he’s scheduled to take the baton at both the Chicago
Easy-on-the-eye tosh: Netflix’s The Perfect Couple reviewed
From the magazineHow Berlin nearly broke Bowie
From the magazineWhen is anyone going to properly appreciate what critics have to go through?
From the magazineElvis Costello remains the most fascinating songwriter Britain has produced in the past 50 years
From the magazineHow Michael Craig-Martin changed a glass of water into a full-grown oak tree
From the magazineThe rise of soapy, dead-safe drama: The Band Back Together reviewed
From the magazineCartoons
‘‘This year, it’s a choice between heating and Oasis tickets.’’
Cartoon
‘‘I’ve got tickets to the Tory conference – the fighting’s better.’’
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‘‘Clive has always been a flies-open sort of chap.’’
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