The Spectator

The Spectator

The Spectator is a weekly magazine from the UK that leans towards conservative viewpoints. It was established on July 6, 1828, making it the longest-running magazine in the English language. The publication is currently owned by David and Frederick Barclay, who also own The Daily Telegraph through their company, Press Holdings. The magazine mainly focuses on topics related to politics and culture.

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#12932

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#553

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  • 1 day ago | spectator.co.uk | Stephen Pollard

    The woman two tables from me at a branch of Pret in the City was talking about her chemotherapy. Her male companion asked her how her treatment was going, and she replied that it was gruelling. She was on a short break and was dreading the next round. I have leukaemia, and know the pattern of these conversations. What usually follows is sympathy, or empathy if someone has been through it themselves or knows someone who has. But there was no sympathy or empathy offered.

  • 1 day ago | spectator.co.uk | Ross Clark

    When the Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced that she was withdrawing the Winter Fuel Payment from most pensioners on the same day, last July, when she awarded fat pay rises to many public sector workers she perhaps imagined herself as striking a blow for inter-generational fairness. Working people would get more money – at least if they worked in the public sector – and wealthy retirees a little less. Yet it is fast becoming the an issue which could prove her undoing.

  • 1 day ago | spectator.co.uk | Douglas Murray

    Five years ago, the man who is now Lord Hermer gave an interview to the Times. The then QC was asked how he’d want to be remembered. The answer he gave was curious.

  • 1 day ago | spectator.co.uk | Madeline Grant

    It is a truth universally acknowledged that any article about Jane Austen must begin with a mangled, platitudinous variation on her most famous line. Irritating though this is, it’s rather a good metaphor for the state of the wider treatment of Austen – and her near contemporaries – by popular culture. When it comes to adaptations of novels from the Georgian, Regency and Victorian periods, and even longer ago, we find ourselves in a deep trough.

  • 2 days ago | spectator.co.uk | Madeline Grant

    It has taken Sir Keir Starmer just under 11 months to enter his Brezhnev era. Portly, autocratic and reliant on past glories, the Prime Minister began today’s PMQs by reading a list that would make Borat proud of the infrastructural benevolences to make benefit glorious region of Red Wall. In Sir Keir’s world, there is no decay or decline: the economy is booming, pensioners and children are well cared for and the streets are safe. The praesidium – sorry, Front Bench – lapped this up.