Lead book review
Unearthly darkness
Mask of the Sun: The Science, History and Forgotten Lore of Eclipsesby Norton, £20, pp. 336 On 28 May 1900…
A true original
Leonora Carrington was strikingly beautiful with ‘the personality of a headstrong and hypersensitive horse’ (according to her friend and patron…
The descent of man
Why do humans want to build robots? It seems, on the face of it, to be a suicidal endeavour, destroying…
Review: Dinner with Armand de Brignac
A fine time was had by all at the Dickie Fitz Restaurant and Dining Room in London W1 the other…
Restaurateur Gavin Rankin enjoys a gastronomic trip to Belgium
Restaurateur Gavin Rankin enjoys a gastronomic trip to Belgium but wishes travelling companion, chef Rowley Leigh, had kept his mouth…
Skin in the game
Terry Smith is in the news again. Not for being a Brexiteer — though he’s been committed to that cause…
Mount Gay Rum
Jonathan Ray visits the oldest rum distillery in the world and gets his hands dirty blending My travels round the…
The Joy of Chocolate
In Grenada, Jonathan Ray attempts to extend his life by eating plenty of dark chocolate. I’m in the House of…
Letter from the Caribbean #2
Jonathan Ray gets his head around how to create the perfect rum cocktail. I’ve lost count of the number of…
Letter from the Caribbean #1
Jonathan Ray gets a taste for rum but knows when it’s time to stop. Excitement in the Caribbean concerning Prince…
How to solve the engineering skills crisis
UK engineering is facing an insidious threat to its success – a chronic failure to get enough young people to…
Cover 12 November 2016
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Blind tasting
In my line of work, I’m lucky enough to go to a lot of wine tastings – press tastings that…
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November Wine Club I
Start your festive stockpiling right here, right now. Why wait until the week before Christmas to buy Berrys’ scrumptious own…
Post-election discussion
After the American people have voted, what next for the US and the rest of the world? Join Sir Christopher…
Christmas cartoon offer
Purchase a Spectator cartoon now to receive free framing in time for Christmas. Enter FRAME16 at checkout for your free…
Festive Wine lunch II
Owing to overwhelming demand our business editor, Martin Vander Weyer, and our drinks editor, Jonathan Ray, will be hosting a…
Private view
The Spectator invites you to a private breakfast view of Abstract Expressionism at the Royal Academy of Arts on 26…
Winemaker’s dinner
Join us for a Spectator dinner featuring the wines of Armand de Brignac, a much-talked-about champagne house. Emilien Boutillat will…
Life’s Too Short to Drink Bad Wine
We had a fine party at 67 Pall Mall last night to launch the new edition of Simon Hoggart’s Life’s…
Where there’s a will…
‘Clonakilty, God help us,’ my Irish mother would say automatically when we drove into the town, in pious remembrance of…
Listening in to the Russians
There are now enough books about Bletchley Park for it to become part of national mythology, along with the Tudors,…
Writing on the fly
Bogotá airport, immigration form in hand. Tourist, migrant, businessman? Andrés Neuman ponders the descriptors, unsure which to tick. He opts…
Tomorrow’s world
It may be difficult to believe when you think of Donald Trump, but the age of super-humans is almost upon…
