2+ hour, 11+ min ago  (341+ words) Nowhere is the gamble sharper than with cask ale And the World Cup is almost upon us. England are among the favourites to win the tournament, which starts tonight. A warm summer lies ahead, huge crowds ready to gather and…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (218+ words) The Spectator Australia Reform Scotland poach GB News man With Rachel Reeves in the Treasury, many employers are having to make cut backs. But in the case of Reform UK, it is the exact opposite, with Labour's woes proving a…...

1+ week, 43+ min ago  (1151+ words) The Spectator Australia Portrait of the week: Sturgeon speaks, Henry Nowak's killer is jailed and Mandelson's messages are released Vickrum Digwa, 23, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 21 years for the murder of Henry Nowak, 18, who was stabbed…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago  (849+ words) The Spectator Australia Would England do better without Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland? Would England be better off without Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland? This may seem an extraordinary question but it is one that can be asked in the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (264+ words) Let's leave aside for one moment Nicola Sturgeon's claim of ingenuous innocence in the matter of her husband Peter Murrell's splurging sprees " because apparently this savvy, forensically-minded stickler of a woman, the foremost politician of our age, is a ditzy…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (221+ words) A co-sponsor of Kim Leadbeater's failed assisted suicide Bill has privately admitted to constituents that MPs trying to ram through similar legislation are likely to fail. Peter Bedford was a leading cheerleader for euthanasia in the last parliamentary session. But…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (288+ words) The whole caboodle enriches builders, real estate developers and comfortably-off property owners. And the people it is meant to help, young workers needing a leg up? Hardly at all Last year MSPs passed the Housing (Scotland) Act, which will eventually…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (647+ words) Yet something very important is also being missed. It explains why Murrell was able to carry on the embezzlement long after he should have been stopped "and why John Swinney cannot hide behind his victim of criminality defence, with the…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (783+ words) The Spectator Australia Q Manivannan is perfect for the modern Green party A whole raft of new terminology has emerged since the Great Awokening ten years ago. Much of it suggests that politics has become increasingly superficial and inauthentic. "Virtue…...

4+ week, 2+ hour ago  (472+ words) The Spectator Australia Summoned home to his dying grandmother in Harris, a gay young man is treated with both violence and tenderness by his father, a Calvinist precentor with a guilty secret For his third novel, Douglas Stuart moves north…...