Lead book review
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…
The key to a hidden kingdom
It’s a modern pastime to hypothesise about what makes a good relationship. One evening not long ago in a Berlin…
Seeing red
Early on in his excellent and protean biography of a colour, Spike Bucklow quotes Goethe, writing in 1809: Every rope…
A meeting of two minds
This lovely, modest and precise book tells the story of the most productive friendship among the modernists, and the most…
Comment on Tartan-ing up the arts by Sunset66
Maybe be you could swagger to the sash Got something to add? Join the discussion and comment below.
Comment on Tartan-ing up the arts by Arron Blue
“If it is, then instead of embracing this venality Scottish artists should aim to transcend and transform.” When do you…
Comment on The Clintons made Trump by bob labinne
For my personnal taste, I prefer to get screwed by a stupid guy, than a experienced man or woman. I…
Comment on Tartan-ing up the arts by Sunset66
I have told you before you are in a very small minority of scots who choose to denigrate their own…
Comment on Tartan-ing up the arts by Arron Blue
James [OBE] is writing a new opera entitled “The Scottish Cringe”. It deals with his own beliefs. Got something to…
Comment on Tartan-ing up the arts by CraigStrachan
Rule Britannia sounds danceable to you? Got something to add? Join the discussion and comment below.
Comment on Tartan-ing up the arts by CraigStrachan
Expansiveness is more your thing. I keep it short and sweet. Got something to add? Join the discussion and comment…
Comment on Tartan-ing up the arts by Arron Blue
“…seems…” Got something to add? Join the discussion and comment below.
Comment on Tartan-ing up the arts by Arron Blue
Poor old James… OBE Got something to add? Join the discussion and comment below.
Comment on Tartan-ing up the arts by Sunset66
Oh dear back on the Scottish nationalism is a bad thing British nationalism is a good thing . I think…
Comment on Tartan-ing up the arts by sir_graphus
Artists follow the money; they used to paint Vatican ceilings and portraits of the Medici. Now it’s govts providing the…
Comment on Christopher Biggins and the fall of civilisation by Trailblazer10
The politicians etc are not staying schtum. Troops are deployed in France to protect just one particular group. “Hate crimes”…
Comment on Tartan-ing up the arts by Peter A Bell
Is it? Would you care to expand on this thoughtlet? Or do you feel, perhaps, that you may already have…
Comment on Zero tolerance, zero sanity by baz2000
Exactly the same thing happened in Dublin a few months ago. Bunch of Afghans were beaten up ‘for no reason’.…
Comment on Christopher Biggins and the fall of civilisation by Trailblazer10
“To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” SJW’s always lie:https://www.amazon.co.uk/SJWs-Always-Lie-Taking-Thought-ebook/dp/B014GMBUR4…
