December 2019

‘A Democratic party a little less obsessed with digging around for presidential conspiracies and a little more eager to call out Trump for bad housekeeping might have a better chance of defeating him in 2020.’


Art December 1, 2019

The call of the wild

Pod help you in the wilderness

Emily Ferguson

Art December 1, 2019

Ave, Maria Grinberg

How the Soviets stopped you from hearing her Beethoven piano sonatas

Damian Thompson

Books December 1, 2019

The Spectator’s Books of the Year 2019

Spectator contributors choose their favorite titles of 2019

The Spectator

Books December 1, 2019

The haunting of Russell Kirk

The founding father of 20th-century American conservatism was also a connoisseur of the supernatural and a bestselling novelist

James Panero

Books December 1, 2019

We are all Greta now

A lot of children’s literature today is horribly right-on

Melanie McDonagh

Art December 1, 2019

Leonardo da Virtual

Mass tourism has overwhelmed our major museums. Could virtual reality be the solution?

Dominic Green

Podcasts December 1, 2019

The pod delusion

Why I hate all podcasts — even the ones I like

Matt Labash

Art December 1, 2019

Payton’s place

Netflix’s The Politician is satire without purpose

James Delingpole