The Spectator Magazine

The Spectator Magazine

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About this app

The Spectator app is a subscriber exclusive that gives you the best of news, comment and culture from the world’s oldest magazine.

Simply download the app and sign in.

*NEW* in the 'more' section:
• Dark mode
• Search
• Tailor your feed with specific topics and featured writers

App highlights:
• A daily mixture of political commentary, cultural criticism and humour
• Each issue of the weekly magazine published every Thursday at 4 a.m.
• Receive alerts on breaking news – and the latest from Spectator writers
• Listen to all Spectator podcasts and narrated articles
• Read articles when you’re offline
• Keep track of the articles you’ve already read

Download today and get the latest from the oldest weekly magazine in the world.

Ratings and reviews

CANNOT LOG IN! App asks me to log in to my subscriber account and sends me to website to do so. Input correct email and password. I am then logged in on the Web site but not the app. Have wiped data, cache, restarted phone and reinstalled but same. Driving me insane. [scream!]

The old app worked perfectly. The new app DOES NOT PERMIT ME TO SUFFICIENTLY ENLARGE TEXT. Unless I find a way of enlarging the text to the size possible with the old app, there seems no point in my wasting any more money on the Spectator Magazine. What a preposterous situation. The Spectator is, or perhaps, was my haven of common sense. However, looking on the bright side, it might become useful to me IN DIRECT PROPORTION AS IT STOPS BEING COMPLETELY USELESS.

Just tried using the new Spectator app on my LG phone and it crashes as soon as I start to read an article. Closed app and restarted but then just get a blank (white) screen. Restarted phone which allowed me back into the app – tried scrolling to the right – another blank screen, scroll back and cannot select any articles. Doesn’t look like much testing was done on this. I’ve now uninstalled and will check back in a few weeks to download the (hopefully) fixed version. If you just want to read the headlines then it's fine otherwise quite useless in its current form.

What's new

Bug fixes and performance improvements