The Spectator
Australia
The three i’s
Peter Dutton has committed his party to a return to government at the next election. This development is welcome. The…
Australian Features
Elite universities loathe us
Our centres of higher learning can’t stand mainstream Australian values
United Nations of hypocrites
Their shameful silence on Jewish women raped and murdered
In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the Farage sleeps tonight
Nigel turns the other cheek
Features
The Week
Columnists
Books
A choice of this year’s gift books
Sporting trivia, the language of cats and the comic genius of Barry Cryer feature among the best of the year’s stocking-fillers
Britney Spears is back with a vengeance
After years of abuse and being reduced to the status of child-robot, the singer is back on track with soaring album sales and a smash-hit memoir
What would life on Mars actually look like?
It would need more than 100 million people to make it viable for a start – living in airlocked, subterranean bases, producing food and oxygen in artificially-lit greenhouses
A history of the onion leaves one crying for more
Mark Kurlansky’s treatment of a vegetable which was domesticated at least 7,000 years ago and on which the world’s cuisines depend feels rushed and inadequate
How sport helped shape the British character
David Horspool connects different sports to our historical experience: cricket with class, golf with property rights, tennis with female emancipation and boxing with ethnicity
When atonal music was original and exciting
Alexander Goehr, the sole survivor of the radical Manchester School of Music in the 1960s, describes turning pre-war European tradition into British cutting edge
The British Empire’s latest crime – to have ended the Enlightenment
Richard Whatmore sees trade and colonisation in the 19th century as the great threat to Enlightenment ideals, and British imperialism as an unremitting force of darkness
Arts
The point of perdition
What will history make of the superior crime stories we seem to be churning out? The late Peter Corris’ Cliff…
Life
Aussie life
Who can honestly say they’ve never contemplated murder? What red-blooded Australian can put their hand on their heart and swear…
Language
We are unlikely to forget the look on Anthony Blinken’s face when the word ‘dictator’ slipped out of Joe Biden’s…