Nigel Lawson: 1932-2023
Nigel Lawson has died at the age of 91. He was the editor of The Spectator from 1966 to 1970…
Stupid fuels
Net zero is a disastrous solution to a nonexistent problem
Diary
It is a particular pleasure to be returning to the columns of The Spectator, more than half a century after…
Diary
I have escaped this rather depressing election campaign by retreating to my home in la France profonde — to be…
A wicked orthodoxy
Global-warming alarmism has become a substitute religion, attended by all the intolerant zealotry that has so often marred religion in the past
Diary
The long-discussed meeting between a group of climate scientists and Fellows of the Royal Society on the one side, and…
A phoenix from the Ashes
Those of us who watched the last day of the final Ashes Test of the present series enjoyed a rare…
