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‘The Spectator has, since its founding in 1828, always stood on the side of free expression and thought. Without those freedoms, civilized society will quickly fall apart.’
The TV show that rots young minds
Euphoria is doing for young people’s morality what British Bomber Command and the USAAF did for the architecture of Dresden
By Taki
From the Magazine
Who is he?
The guitarist and songwriter Pete Townshend talks to Sam Leith about madness, sleep bubbles and his new novel
By Sam Leith
From the Magazine
Finding the Lost Girls
D.J. Taylor tracks down the proofreaders and heartbreakers who were the toast of Blitz-era London
By D.J. Taylor
From the Magazine
The prophetic Raymond Chandler
Chandler’s California is a cultural desert stretching along the western edge of a continental wasteland
From the Magazine
Wells farrago: gaslighting the Invisible Man
Priapic shower-stalking and domestic haunting were never Wells’s style – not on the page, anyway
By Will Lloyd
From the Magazine
The way we read now
The thrill is gone for lovers of fiction. Joseph Bottum on the strange death of the novel
From the Magazine
Land of hope and Victoria: The Kinks’ lost empire
By 1969, Churchill was dead and the Kinks, as an album group, were toast
By Luke Haines
From the Magazine
J’accuse…!
The banning of Roman Polanski’s film about the Dreyfus affair is history repeating itself
From the Magazine
‘I aspire to write for posterity’
Tom Stoppard talks about inspiration, growing older and his new play, Leopoldstadt
From the Magazine
The Italian job
A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism by Caroline Moorehead reviewed
By Clare Mulley
From the Magazine
Winter wonderland
The Frozen River: Seeking Silence in the Himalaya by James Crowden reviewed
By Mark Cocker
From the Magazine
‘A system at odds with the Constitution’
A conversation with Christopher Caldwell about America today
From the Magazine
Roger Scruton: a year in which much was lost – but more gained
Despite everything, I have so much to be grateful for
From the Magazine
Comedy in the era of Twitter outrage: An interview with Ricky Gervais
The comedian on why he will never apologize for his jokes
By Andrew Doyle
From the Magazine
