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Trump faces legal misery & Peter Hitchens talks forgiveness

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Spectator Life

An intelligent mix of culture, food, style and property, plus where to go and what to see.

Watches satisfy a strange masculine urge

From Spectator Life

A year or two ago I got my first expensive watch, a Longines Conquest Heritage. It wasn’t quite my dream timepiece – that was a 1960s Omega Seamaster automatic (think Bond films at the Sean Connery stage) but these are priced off the scale and need plenty of specialist upkeep. The Longines Conquest, very much

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Spectator TV Presents

Trump faces legal misery & Peter Hitchens talks forgiveness

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Easter special

Douglas Murray

In defence of forgiveness

It is often the small constants in the culture that give the game away. Much of the news today is not about anything significant, but rather a sort of lower gossip. Every day, some new scandal bubbles along. Someone is found to have said something once, often a long time ago. The culprit is shamed

In defence of forgiveness

It is often the small constants in the culture that give the game away. Much of the news today is not about anything significant, but rather a sort of lower gossip. Every day, some new scandal bubbles along. Someone is found to have said something once, often a long time ago. The culprit is shamed

Culture

The good, the bad and the ugly in books, exhibitions, cinema, TV, dance, music, podcasts and theatre.

Death of a choir

From the magazine

Always make your redundancy announcement when the people at the receiving end of it are on a high. This seems to be the favoured method of today’s managing executives, who perhaps imagine that adrenalin will somehow anaesthetise the blow of getting the sack. For the Cambridge student choir St John’s Voices, the news of its

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Cartoons

James Mellor

‘‘The online speculation is going to be wild.’’

Cartoon

Nick Newman

‘‘You go down the rabbit hole – I’ll stick with social media.’’

Cartoon

Nick Newman

‘‘I assume they didn’t need an intimacy co-ordinator.’’

Cartoon

John Sturgis

In praise of peculiar names

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