Farage’s Musk meeting is uncomfortable for the Tories and Labour
![](https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-17-at-14.45.03.png?resize=271,152)
All the latest analysis of the day's news
An intelligent mix of culture, food, style and property, plus where to go and what to see.
James Joyce called Guinness ‘the wine of Ireland’. Now it feels a bit more like the Coca-Cola of alcohol – as much brash branding as beer. Once, it merely had an ugly logo and the rowdy promise of Emerald Isle hedonism which – I confess I have often thought – is crafted to appeal to
This week's magazine
Javier Milei • Cate Blanchett • Ayaan Hirsi Ali • Rick Rubin • Tom Holland ... and more
Buenos Aires ‘I never wind down,’ says Argentina’s President Javier Milei when we meet in his Presidential Office at the Casa Rosada. ‘I work all day, practically… I get up at 6 a.m., I take a shower and at 7 a.m. I am already at my desk working. And I work all the way until
Buenos Aires ‘I never wind down,’ says Argentina’s President Javier Milei when we meet in his Presidential Office at the Casa Rosada. ‘I work all day, practically… I get up at 6 a.m., I take a shower and at 7 a.m. I am already at my desk working. And I work all the way until
The good, the bad and the ugly in books, exhibitions, cinema, TV, dance, music, podcasts and theatre.
Why, my sharp-minded colleague Tom Utley once asked after a Telegraph Christmas Carol service, should anyone think God would abhor the Virgin’s womb? He was talking about the line in ‘O come, all ye faithful’ that goes: ‘Lo, he abhors not the Virgin’s womb.’ Wasn’t it a bit weird? At last I found the answer