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Why I’m telling my son about the sky fairy
After we were married, my husband and I went on honeymoon to Mexico. We drove across country east to west,…
A year of revolution
Few years will live as long in the memory as 2016. Historians will ponder the meaning and consequences of the…
The Spectator’s Notes
‘Are you Charles Moore of The Spectator?’ I answered to that description. ‘Well,’ said my questioner, ‘I am worried that you’re…
Rock’s quiet right-wingers
They will be sitting there right now, listening tearfully to the song for one last time on their dinky little…
Workers on boards: red herring from the 1970s or useful negotiating card?
‘We’re going to have not just consumers represented on company boards, but workers as well,’ Theresa May declared in July.…
How I learned to embrace my inner toff
I do hope it’s a terrible winter this year: a total bastard where everyone’s snowed into their drives and those…
Can this sweet little girl get out of Aleppo alive?
Every morning, after the children go to school, I turn on my computer to check that Bana Alabed is alive…
The sexy new face of cigarette packaging
Something for which to thank the government, at last. It is much, much more fun buying cigarettes these days. It…
The Spectator’s Notes
It seems perplexing that François Fillon, now the Republican candidate for the French presidency, should be a declared admirer of…
Workers on boards: red herring from the 1970s or useful negotiating card?
‘We’re going to have not just consumers represented on company boards, but workers as well,’ Theresa May declared in July.…
How I learned to embrace my inner toff
I do hope it’s a terrible winter this year: a total bastard where everyone’s snowed into their drives and those…
The Spectator’s Notes
It seems perplexing that François Fillon, now the Republican candidate for the French presidency, should be a declared admirer of…
Can this sweet little girl get out of Aleppo alive?
Every morning, after the children go to school, I turn on my computer to check that Bana Alabed is alive…
The sexy new face of cigarette packaging
Something for which to thank the government, at last. It is much, much more fun buying cigarettes these days. It…
Soothing mood music from Hammond and May disguises challenges ahead
Theresa May likes to give a kitten-heeled kicking to conference audiences, even when they are police officers or her own…
The pick-up artists who seduced a country
Many years ago, when I was a mere slip of a features journalist, I spent a weekend learning how to…
We live in a golden age of swearing
Authors’ book tours are often fun but rarely easy. For me the long train journeys are a delight, but on…
Prisons should be nicer places? Nonsense
Now that post-Marxian vacuous liberalism is over, it is surely about time that we revived the vigorous writings of Thomas…
The Spectator’s Notes
It is not self-evidently ridiculous that Nigel Farage should be the next British ambassador to the United States. The wishes…
Soothing mood music from Hammond and May disguises challenges ahead
Theresa May likes to give a kitten-heeled kicking to conference audiences, even when they are police officers or her own…
The pick-up artists who seduced a country
Many years ago, when I was a mere slip of a features journalist, I spent a weekend learning how to…
The Spectator’s Notes
It is not self-evidently ridiculous that Nigel Farage should be the next British ambassador to the United States. The wishes…
Prisons should be nicer places? Nonsense
Now that post-Marxian vacuous liberalism is over, it is surely about time that we revived the vigorous writings of Thomas…
In Trump’s Texas, the oil men awaken to hope of new prosperity
Houston, Texas It’s hard to find anyone in polite society here who admits to having voted for Trump, even among…
The moral arc of the universe bends towards me
So I made £250 betting on Trump to win the presidency. It would have been more, except that every time…
