guns
The best radio at the moment is on the BBC World Service
Online viewings of Conclave increased threefold following the death of Pope Francis last month. At least some of the traffic…
A gripping podcast about America’s obsession with guns
The love affair between so many Americans and their guns – long a source of international fascination – appears to…
Bullet points
In Serbia, the gun is a way of life
Is there a British version of America’s attachment to guns?
Now that the horror of the Uvalde school shooting in Texas has begun to ebb away, as it always does,…
Welcome to the age of post-Covid nihilism
Washington, DC Amid the recent orgy of violence across America, it was the carjackings that finally got me. Lost amid all…
Lionel Shriver on mass shootings, gun control and American carnage
This is an edited transcript of a conversation between Freddy Gray and Lionel Shriver on The Spectator’s Americano podcast, which you…
Barometer
Marrying in office It was announced Boris Johnson will marry his fiancée, Carrie Symonds, next year. This will be only…
Trigger happy
In this line of business you receive many emails from PRs ‘reaching out’ about their particular film, which I really…
All quiet on the Western Front
From ‘Observing: an average day’, The Spectator, 15 April 1916: 5.10 a.m. The signaller on duty at the telephone has just said…
Calling the shots
Amid the hunters, urban cowboys and trigger-happy heroes at the world’s biggest gun show
How they tried (and failed) to make ‘La Marseillaise’ nicer
Friendly words England football fans sang ‘La Marseillaise’ in a friendly match at Wembley. The anthem has not always been…
Young guns
The Honourable Society of Odd Bottles began proceedings with a report on the activities of our junior branch. These youngsters…
All guns blazing
Once, both police and criminals in Britain routinely did without guns. How did that happen? And why did it change?
Guns and neuroses
William S. Burroughs lived his life in the grand transgressive tradition of Lord Byron and Oscar Wilde and, like all…
