Is the RSPCA no longer an animal welfare charity?
In January of this year, Melissa Kite wrote our cover story about how the RSPCA has morphed from being an…
Spectator Play: The highs and the lows of what’s going on in arts this week
‘Shakespeare’s Globe’, as the theatre has been called since it was founded in 1997, is unusual for a theatre in…
Spectator Play: The highs and the lows of what’s going on in arts this week
The Tate Britain has recently undergone a ‘sorely needed’ rehang, which Andrew Lambirth explores in this week’s Spectator. As a…
Spectator Play: Spectator Play: The highs and the lows of what’s going on in arts this week
Wadjda is the first feature-length film to come out of Saudi Arabia, and was shot by the country’s first female…
The View from 22 — the men from the colonies running Britain, the rise of the Death Café and male toplessness
Has the British establishment been taken over by men from the Commonwealth? What with a Canadian in charge of the…
The View from 22 debate special: too much immigration, too little integration?
This May, David Goodhart’s latest book, The British Dream: Successes and Failures of Post-war Immigration, earned him the title of…
Spectator Play: The highs and the lows of what’s going on in arts this week
Deborah Ross reviews two films for us this week. The first is Pacific Rim, a ‘giant monsters v. giant robots’…
Spectator Play: what’s worth watching, listening to or going to this weekend
The BBC’s Proms kick off today, with the First Night of the Proms from the Royal Albert Hall delivering what…
Forget about ‘rewilding’: we should be focusing on the species that we do still have
The buzzword of the moment seems to be ‘rewilding’. George Monbiot, the Guardian columnist and environmentalist has a new vision…
The sad tale of the White-throated Needletail and the Outer Hebridean wind turbine
Yesterday morning, driving along the main road back to Tarbert in the Outer Hebrides, we came across a large group…
Spectator Play: The highs and the lows of what’s going on in arts this week
In this week’s lead feature in the Arts section, Tom Rosenthal explains just why he thinks the Lowry retrospective at…
Spectator Play: The highs and the lows of what’s going on in arts this week
Sir Alfred Munnings lived his life in true bohemian style, ‘carousing with gypsies and horse-trainers, living rough and constantly on…
Spectator Play: The highs and the lows of what’s going on in arts this week
Coronation Day across the Globe was first broadcast in 1953, by the Home Service, and until last Sunday, it wasn’t…
100 years on from Emily Davison’s death, her battle is not yet won
In April’s local elections, only one in three of those eligible to vote actually did so. What proportion of those…
Spectator Play: The highs and the lows of what’s going on in arts this week
Christopher Purves began his musical career playing doo-wop and rock and roll with the band Harvey and the Wallbangers . These…
Spectator Play: what’s worth watching, listening to or going to this weekend
This Saturday’s Eurovision contest was never going to be a triumph for the UK, that much was for certain. What…
Spectator Play: what’s worth watching, listening to or going to this weekend
It feels like the only film anyone’s been talking about recently is The Great Gatsby. Given that even the release…
Never accept meat from strangers
Never accept meat from strangers. That seems to be the lesson of the horsemeat scandal – at least for the ex-commercial…
Spectator Play: what’s worth – or not worth – watching, listening to or going to this weekend
Mark Millar appears to be the typical Spectator reader until you discover – as Peter Hoskin did when he interviewed…
Spectator Play: what’s worth – or not worth – watching, listening to or going to this weekend
I’m So Excited is the latest offering from Pedro Almodóvar who, Deborah Ross says, she would usually love. But is…
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