Congratulations, America, on missing the World Cup
The opening round of the soccer World Cup is under way in Russia. If you’re lucky, you won’t have noticed.…
Michael Avenatti resembles the ‘manager’ who takes an inordinate slice of a working girl’s earnings
The crusading lawyer waves the sword of justice around in order to distract us from the sleaze behind his shield.
Film review: Westwood – Punk, Icon, Activist
This is a golden age for documentaries, if you have time to view them. Digital film and editing have reduced…
The club sandwich: three slices of white supremacy?
Is ‘the perfect American food’ soaked in imperialism and all-male white chumminess?
The Royals are Deplorables
Is Prince Harry a Trumpist, as his father-in-law insinuates?
Lionel Shriver and the rigging of the book market
Should the arts reflect the demographic make-up of their society, and be subject to quotas and affirmative action, in the…
Ocean’s Eight: the women star, but the ethnics still do the dirty work
Women get paid less in Hollywood. Surely the budget for the female variation on Ocean’s Eleven and Ocean’s Thirteen could…
Junot Diaz is the right kind of sex pest for the left
Male writers of colour rejoiced this week when the editors of the Boston Review established new guidelines for what is and isn’t…
Spartacus wasn’t Stanley Kubrick’s only slave
Leon Vitali is an actor who passed through the looking glass of Stanley Kubrick’s camera and became Kubrick’s right arm.…
You didn’t have to be mad to work for Tommy Nutter — but it helped
How an eccentric tailor took over Savile Row in the late 60s.
Forgive Dinesh D’Souza — he knows exactly what he’s done
Three theories on why the conservative author received a presidential pardon.
Roseanne isn’t abhorrent — she’s just mad
Couldn't ABC have reminded people that Roseanne Barr is mentally ill, and more in need of treatment than degradation?
First Reformed is Taxi Driver for the age of Trump
‘That was some weird shit,’ George W. Bush is said to have muttered after Donald Trump’s desolate inauguration speech of…
Europeans are hurting themselves on Iran — and the US
Will France, Britain and Germany really pay the price of guaranteeing the international order? Of course not — they can’t afford it
Bernard Lewis was right about ‘the return of Islam’
When Edmund Burke died, he asked that his grave be hidden, so that his enemies wouldn’t disinter him and defile…
Review: Let the Sunshine In
Here in the English-speaking world, the hours after work and before dinner are known as the ‘reverse commute’. We spend…
Meghan’s embarrassing relatives means she will fit in with the Windsors
You don’t get to choose your parents or your siblings. You do, however, get to choose whether you speak to…
Israel is losing the war of images but winning the battle of reality
The killing of dozens of Gazans in today’s assault on the Gaza-Israel border was not a surprise, but a strategy—certainly…
Review: Racer and the Jailbird. Terrible name, great film
Racer and the Jailbird is a terrible name for a film. It sounds like an unsolicited tribute to that sorrily…
Europe’s leaders need Trump more than they wish to admit
America, meet your European allies in the effort to contain Iran: Emmanuel Macron of France, Theresa May of Britain, and…
What happened to honour in American public life?
‘Honour,’ the French poet Nicholas Boileau wrote in 1666, ‘is like a rocky island without a landing place; once we…
Disobedience is disappointing
If you were to revisit the house you grew up in, would you take a look at your old bedroom?…
Peace in Korea doesn’t make war with Iran more likely
Readers of Spectator’s USA’s mothership, the venerable yet sprightly London Spectator, will know that one of the secrets of the…
It’s time to end the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
You have to give it to Donald Trump. Not for pushing North Korea towards negotiations, or for holding China to…
Review: Godard Mon Amour
It is now fifty years since the événements of May 1968, when young Parisians lobbed onobble stones at the police,…
