Britain has long underestimated Eastern Europe as a source of strategic knowledge, treating it primarily as a region that ...

To a certain breed of British journalist, the Jason Arday story was irresistible catnip. He seemed to be the living, breathing proof that wokery was destroying our most august universities. Time for a ...

The narrator of Ted Chiang’s short story “The Great Silence” is a parrot at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. The bird watches as humans desperately seek life in other solar systems using a huge ...

Let no one accuse the Spectator of letting the death of its longstanding columnist Rod Liddle, who died aged 66 on 2nd August, go unremarked. After decking out its homepage in black, the grand old ...

It hasn’t happened very often, and when it has happened it’s often been a bore. We talk to the makers of ‘Hot Mess’ about how to make art out of a crisis ...

How the UK Supreme Court decided a fundamental rights case without using human rights law ...

Last summer I was invited to take part in two small private events attended by many US, European and Asian billionaires, some worth many tens of billions. The events were fun and stimulating, and many ...

One has to start with the facts, and they are brutal. All Christian denominations in the northern hemisphere are continuing to experience numerical decline, according to best estimates. This now ...

The chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to appoint a corruption commissioner to recover £2.6bn lost to fraudsters during the Covid-19 pandemic. There will be millions to retrieve from local ...

When I wrote about Turkey’s slow boil to authoritarianism a few weeks ago for Prospect, I didn’t imagine the regime would dare ratchet things up to the level of Russia and Belarus in a matter of days.

It was around 1980 that Paul Marshall, a keen Christian undergraduate at Oxford, went to a presentation by the evangelical aid agency Tearfund. He was so impressed by the call for Christians to help ...

“Every word is convincing when a gun is ringing behind it!” remarked the Ukrainian playwright Mykola Kulish. Though he was writing in 1929, not long after the defeat of the Ukrainian state amid the ...