The Spectator World

The Spectator is Britain’s oldest and most influential magazine, with incisive political and economic analysis, unrivalled books and arts reviews, and unmissable lifestyle writing, plus the funniest cartoons. It’s more cocktail party than political party, and we’d love it if you joined us.

In the beginning...

The Spectator World

CONTRIBUTORS

Lucky Lutnicks

DIARY

Climate climbdown • The great green scare is finally fading

International football league • Inside the NFL’s global crusade

Boomer bust

Playing politics

We need to talk about Gavin • He’s wrecked California. Will he do the same to America?

Poem at the Close of the Year

The ‘affordability’ delusion

Death do us part • The decline of marriage will lead to human extinction

Injunction envy

Can Zelensky surrender? • In Ukraine, peace will be a hard sell

Dumm und dümmer • The steady erosion of academic rigor in German schools

Liberty ladies • Meet the e-girls selling European decline to America online

Land of the flee • Four in ten women want to leave America. But where would they go?

What’s really wrong with journalism

TRAVEL NOTEBOOK

Lost boys • How parents’ day at my son’s high school explained the new far right

SPECTATOR ACADEMY READING LIST • Each month we ask a different contributor to recommend ten books every American should read to revive their mind and our shared culture. Here are Lionel Shriver’s.

Small-minded • Why are we so obsessed with Hitler’s penis?

Strange new world • Aldous Huxley foresaw that technology would enslave us

Learning the hard way • The online education startup thwarted by lawmakers

Heavy metal • AI is turbo-charging demand for copper – but supply can’t keep up

Wrabness

Modern family • The ghoulish app that lets you ‘talk’ to dead relatives

Going for broke • Margaret Atwood’s autobiography reveals a steely self-possession, writes D.J. Taylor

Worlds apart

The outsider

Tribute act

Cause for hope

Is right-wing art possible? • We need creators who can reveal what America is now, writes Jonathan Keeperman

Keeping it surreal

Sister act

A Venetian masterclass

Cabin fever

DC life

New York life

Havana life

Country life

Winter blues • How to make an unforgettable Christmas dinner

In vino veritas

Low and slow • Smoking or grilling meat outdoors is best in winter

Honey barrel • When it comes to bourbon, provenance matters

Blood sports • Inside the gruesome world of the ‘human safari’

Exclamation points

Fresh hell