Justice Michael Kirby, about to retire from the High Court of Australia, emphasizes his most important discovery - love.Love for one another. Love for our community. Love for others everywhere in the world.Well, it's a way of talking. In some...

We Britons love it when our government talks nasty to us. If you don't believe me, consult the history books.

Over at Spectator Book Club, Spectator staff have put together a list of books for summer reading, Take a look and send us your selections.

So the Kindle is on the march. Time to tell you something that will surprise you. If you love books, you will love the Kindle. Most of my bibliophile friends recoil at the very idea of an eBook. They say...

I have borrowed this from Damon Lord's blog and thought I would put it on mine. It is estimated that on average every adult only reads 6 of these top 100 books in their life time and I wanted to see how well I did. 1. Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2. Italicize those you intend to read. 3. Underline the books you love. 4. Strike out the books you have no intention of ever read...

Earlier this week, we launched the online Spectator Book Club.  You can access it by clicking here; clicking on the Book Club tab at the top of any Spectator.co.uk page; or by entering www.spectator.co.uk/books into your address bar.  Once there, you'll find a host of content to satisfy even the most ardent booklover - from a discussion board and Book of the Month choices, to l...

You may have seen the summer reading list that Tory MPs have been issued with. But here’s an alternative set of book recommendations for you, this time from Spectator staff. Not all the books will be newly-published. But they’re generally books that we’ve read – and enjoyed – recently. Hopefully, we’ll unearth a few gems for you. If so, ...

Over at the Book Club, Spectator editorial staff have put together a list of recommended books to read over Christmas.  You can see their suggestions here.

I've said it here before and I am sure I will say it here again. Steve Baker MP is a remarkable man. Last week, Steve Baker published, in a new Spectator venture, this list of books that he admires, with very brief notes saying why. The list contains several books by authors of the sort that no normal MP would admit to admiring, whatever he might privately claim. Nozick, Jesus Huerta de Soto,...

So, the bloke got his end away, pissed off the wife, the mistress got pregnant….and now, years later, he finds out the kiddy’s not his. A married TV star who won a court order to hush up an affair has discovered the ‘love child’ he thought he had fathered is not his after all. The