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.

Center stage

The Spectator World

CONTRIBUTORS

Trump’s troubadour

DIARY

Man on Mars • The mission to the red planet will define the 21st century

Red flag • Could China colonize Mars before America?

Flock and awe • The case for drone policing

Class clowns

Billionaires’ boulevard • What Palm Beach reveals about America’s new class system

DSA vs ICE

Killer blow • What remains of the cult of Luigi Mangione?

Faith delusion • Why liberal Christians don’t influence elections

Infinite wisdom • Smarter machines are going to need smarter humans

The future of love?

Written warning • Don’t fall for the latest scam targeting authors — I nearly did

A life’s work • Inside William T. Vollmann’s magnum opus

Hey! Ho! Let’s go! • How the Ramones redefined punk rock

Sushi show • Kaiseki-style menus are taking over fine dining

Pit stop

New York life

Havana life

Local life

Right mess • The feuding at the heart of Reform

Crossing Millennium Bridge • After William Wordsworth

THE SPECTATOR'S NOTES

Plastic parsons • Enjoy Anglican priests while you still can

License to kill • When does targeting the enemy become murder?

Goldfinch

Britain is falling into a mawkish fantasy

Wrinkles in time • Do you have ‘Old Money Face’?

The hidden victims of ‘Big Surrogacy’

Rescue mission • There’s still time to save the West

The whataboutery delusion • Stop with the totalitarian name-calling

A cunning character • The last Anglo-Saxon king made few mistakes — but Hastings proved a battle too far

A media revolution

Speechless messages

Culture wars

Style counsel • Remembering Christopher Gibbs, the aesthete, collector and collagist who connected with Everyone and created a new patron class

Paradise lost

Ai why why?

Apple of my eye

John McCabe

No life

Dog’s life

Odyssey of pleasure • The joy of getting lost in the Peloponnese

Finding my voice

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Shaving

Yoga