The Spectator | 31,159 followers on LinkedIn. Subscribe to the magazine and get your first month free. | The Spectator is a weekly delight if you love good writing, contentious opinion and hard-hitting comment. With the finest writing on current affairs, politics, the arts, books and life, you'll read regular columnists who delight, provoke and amuse and editorial features of incredible breadth and depth. Established in 1828, The Spectator is the oldest continuously published magazine in the English language.