Booze, cigarettes and Auberon Waugh: Remembering The Spectator’s 1970s revival
‘The Spectator, having quite recently been a very bad magazine, is at present a very good one.’ Those gratifying words…
The strange death of English cricket
In 2005 I published a book called The Strange Death of Tory England, and a long article called ‘Cricket’s final…
It’s time to kill James Bond
After six decades, it’s time we were done with 007
To save the British monarchy, skip the Prince of Wales
The Prince of Wales has become a threat to the institution he ought to uphold. He should renounce the throne in advance
Hugh Trevor-Roper: the spy as historian, the historian as spy
Shortly after the war began in September 1939, the branch of the intelligence services called MI8, or the Radio Security…
When Israel was but a dream
‘On the night of 15 April 1897, a small, elegant steamer is en route from Egypt’s Port Said to Jaffa.’…
My dream to visit Oz
Much more than cricket fascinates this Englishman about Australia
Please get rid of this dreadful technology
Far from making the game fairer and more interesting, the Decision Review System is poisoning cricket
Why Brits are gloating like hell over the Aussies
British sport is experiencing a remarkable renaissance
