17+ hour, 47+ min ago  (323+ words) Welcome to the new tax year, with its overflowing hamper of half-baked, growth-eating, enterprise-crushing Labour measures. And if you happen to be one of the 4. 4 million self-employed who scrape an independent living despite rising costs and red tape, welcome to…...

21+ hour, 47+ min ago  (572+ words) There has been so much news of late that stories which might once have caused a splash have sailed by all but unnoticed. One in particular seems worthy of bringing into a greater light, not least because it has been…...

21+ hour, 47+ min ago  (538+ words) The Spectator Australia A mesmerising new work from English National Ballet Crystal Pite is one of a handful of truly original choreographers today, extending the boundaries of her art form without going all doolally about trendy gender issues, AI or…...

6+ hour, 11+ min ago  (770+ words) The Spectator Australia How the paralysed Franz Rosenzweig continued to translate the Bible After being struck down by a neurodegenerative disease at the age of 36, the inspirational scholar pursued his biblical project with the twitch of one thumb University of…...

17+ hour, 47+ min ago  (759+ words) The Spectator Australia HBO Max isn't worth subscribing to HBO Max is the latest streaming channel trying to lure you into yet another of those "10 a month subscription contracts you only remember having signed up for about three years later…...

21+ hour, 47+ min ago  (749+ words) The Spectator Australia An outstanding Turn of the Screw Royal Academy of Music Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham, and touring until 21 May Never let it be said that The Spectator fails to follow up an arts story. Long-term readers will recall that…...

21+ hour, 47+ min ago  (555+ words) The Spectator Australia Defiantly creative to the end: the transgressive Dorothea Tanning Born in Illinois in 1910 in the middle of a hurricane, the experimental Surrealist became the model of the fiercely independent artist I received this book for review on…...

21+ hour, 47+ min ago  (294+ words) I heard about it from my friend Dan Hannan shortly after I became a peer, and immediately put my name down, imagining it to be a massive freebie. Not so. The Graubunden canton provides you with a free lift pass,…...

21+ hour, 47+ min ago  (624+ words) It was when I was staying recently with the Frums in D. C. that, for a dizzying moment, I thought my life-long quest had ended. Nasa can fly us a quarter of a million miles to circumnavigate the moon but nobody has…...

21+ hour, 47+ min ago  (233+ words) When a 13-year-old girl announces that she's really a boy, talk therapy should be the first line of defence The Conservative government commissioned Coventry University to explore the prevalence of this practice and the subsequent report noted: "Aversive techniques were…...