1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (607+ 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…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (155+ words) The first thing you see on entering this major new Viennese exhibition is not one of Canaletto and his nephew Bernardo Bellotto's majestic paintings of London, Venice or Vienna, but a camera obscura. The magical art of both artists depended…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (189+ words) Royal Opera House, in rep until 18 May 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 neuroscience. She is rooted…...

3+ hour, 49+ min ago  (855+ words) The Spectator Hungary has become a tired gerontocracy Hungary in 2026 is what most developed countries were probably on their way to becoming in the 1980s and early nineties, had mass migration not intervened: a sleazy gerontocracy with occasional bouts of moral-majority…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (231+ words) Regular readers of this column will be familiar with my promoting an idea called a "Paceometer" (pictured). Rather than presenting speed in, say, miles per hour (distance/time), it presents speed the other way round, in minutes per ten miles…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (328+ 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…...

13+ hour, 7+ min ago  (150+ words) " C. P. , London NW1 Q. I've had a sofa covered in Fermoie linen and it looks really smart. How can I stop my daughter's grubby boyfriend from leaving scuff marks and grime when he comes at weekends? She'd be furious if I asked him…...

4+ hour, 7+ min ago  (808+ words) It could be the shortest negotiation in history. The United States and Iran, with their respective peace plans, are so far apart that it's difficult to see how their differences can ever be squared." A two-week ceasefire, which has already…...

1+ day, 38+ min ago  (834+ words) The Spectator Portrait of the week: Trump threatens Iran, Kanye is banned and Artemis II heads to the Moon The government withdrew an offer to create 1, 000 more training posts for doctors in England after the British Medical Association refused to…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (255+ words) Canongate, pp. 352, "20 Yann Martel, the author of Beatrice and Virgil and Life of Pi, typically explores competing storylines, narrative reliability and the nature of truth. His new novel, Son of Nobody, pursues these themes in a first-person account written by…...