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The Spectator Magazine app for iPhone and iPad


4.4 ( 4304 ratings )
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Developer: The Spectator (1828) Ltd
Free
Current version: 7.7, last update: 6 months ago
First release : 24 Oct 2012
App size: 33.3 Mb

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.

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

Join the party with Europe’s fastest-growing current affairs magazine.

Terms of use: https://www.spectator.co.uk/terms/

Pros and cons of The Spectator Magazine app for iPhone and iPad

The Spectator Magazine app good for

A pleasure to read - informative, witty and a balanced range of opinions.
I love the wit, insight and speaking up when others hide behind pretences and fake news. Keep going! Should be a mandatory reading material- especially in Canada
Simply the best economic, political and philosophical comment I read. Keep it up Fraser and team!
Excellent magazine. Worth every penny (euro). Well written with informed opinion and analysis. Would recommend Jack (France)
A very good App indeed. I enjoy downloading and reading the latest issue every week. So I can keep informed about a large variety of subjects wherever the www and my mobile devices may take me. Easy handling and excellent quality.
This is such a pleasure to read compared to the usual dull "consensus media" magazines on the market today. Intelligent analysis, thought provoking articles laced with classic British humour throughout.

Some bad moments

Ive been reading the Spectator for years. Its basically a magazine for political junkies but as an ex-pat I find it keeps me in touch with the zeitgeist in England. They are now full on fascists. Delingpole and Moore are the first ones Id put against the wall. Then that asswipe Taki.
You offered a free trial if I added the app. NO FREE TRIAL on the app, so I deleted the app. Thats bad customer relations and now I am no longer interested in subscribing.
Reading the Spectator is like going to a party and talking with fascinating people who are unpredictable. Most are charming and amusing in an inimitably British way even though their opinions vary widely and may sometimes be strange. I highly recommend it.
Magazine is the best but the download system is rank. Also in App spotlight is pretty useless as only looks in downloaded articles, it should look on the web.
Ive been a Spectator reader for perhaps twenty years and consider the magazine one of the best available. As an American citizen, I tend to skip over much of the writing on British domestic politics, but the Spectator offers so very much more. Theres an amazing variety in the subject matter on offer. The reviews are useful. Most of all, the use of language is precise; the articles concise. Im old fashioned enough to believe that whats worth saying not only may but must be said clearly. The Spectators writing is the antithesis of the usual prose of wet concrete that infest journals like (to pick one at random) the New York Review of Books. And the Spectator is often quit funny, too. Such a deal. The app has been greatly improved over the years. Early versions of the app made reading a bit of a penance. Those day are mercifully over.
Like a cry of reason from beyond the darkness that is the modern conservative movement in the US, The Spectator celebrates common sense over zealotry and reasonable discourse over ideology. Let the left be blinded by beliefs and ridiculous schemes. I want a magazine that deals with the world as it is, not as it "should" be, and that magazine is The Spectator.