The Spectator was established in 1828, and is the best-written and most influential weekly in the English language. Our writers have no party line; their only allegiance is to clarity of thought, elegance of expression and independence of opinion. Our writers opinions range from left to right, their circumstances from high life to low life. None make any pretence at being impartial: our motto is “firm, but unfair”.
The Spectator Australia was launched in October 2008 and includes the current edition of the iconic British magazine plus lots of pages of additional Australian content and editorial edited by Rowan Dean.
Leftists love to fantasise about how heroic they’d have been when Jews were being rounded up in the 1930s. ‘I’d...
Justin Trudeau’s government sees fascists everywhere, except when one is standing right under their nose. That’s the brilliant if bleak...
One of the most tenuous arguments in favour for The Voice was recently made by Mark Leibler. Speaking at an...
A national survey has found 64 per cent of Jewish students say they’ve experienced anti-Semitism at university. At Sydney University...
‘Should Israel refer to Australia as occupied Aboriginal territory?’ asked Stephen Flatow in the Jerusalem Post on 13 August.Flatow asked the question...
I’m doing a show in Edinburgh for the first time in a long while. It’s fun, although I feel I’m...
Roger Moorhouse describes how various diplomats stationed in Europe risked their positions to issue as many forged ‘tickets to safety’...
Cillian Murphy is a blue-eyed Irishman with cheekbones you could slice salt beef on but, sorry David Baddiel, as far...
Iran’s so-called morality police, loathed and feared in equal measure, are back patrolling the streets of the country. They temporarily...
We hear little about the Holocaust in Hungary. In a murderous 56-day period in Hungary during 1944, some 430,000 Hungarian...
