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A hard lesson is coming

1 April 2017 9:00 am

Private schools have undermined their charitable status by dashing so shamelessly upmarket

Fighting chance

30 March 2017 2:00 pm

Middle age is OK by me. National Trust membership, a Waitrose loyalty card, lying on the sofa drinking red wine…

The rescue racket

30 March 2017 2:00 pm

What is happening in the 300-mile stretch of sea between Sicily and Libya, day in and day out — in…

Lost city of fantasy

30 March 2017 2:00 pm

The new film The Lost City of Z is being advertised as based on the true story of one of…

The friendly alliance

30 March 2017 2:00 pm

On 29 March 2019 the Queen should have a state dinner and invite the European Union’s 27 heads of state…

Fighting chance

30 March 2017 2:00 pm

Middle age is OK by me. National Trust membership, a Waitrose loyalty card, lying on the sofa drinking red wine…

There will be a trade deal

30 March 2017 2:00 pm

Most diplomats in Brussels will tell you that Theresa May has just embarked upon a fool’s errand, that Britain might…

There will be a trade deal

30 March 2017 2:00 pm

Most diplomats in Brussels will tell you that Theresa May has just embarked upon a fool’s errand, that Britain might…

The rescue racket

30 March 2017 2:00 pm

What is happening in the 300-mile stretch of sea between Sicily and Libya, day in and day out — in…

Lost city of fantasy

30 March 2017 2:00 pm

The new film The Lost City of Z is being advertised as based on the true story of one of…

The friendly alliance

30 March 2017 2:00 pm

On 29 March 2019 the Queen should have a state dinner and invite the European Union’s 27 heads of state…

Party time... blossoms at Himeji Castle in Japan

Cherry blossom

25 March 2017 9:00 am

In what I like to think of as The Spectator’s back garden — most people call it St James’s Park…

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer takes questions during the daily press briefing (Getty)

Pressing back

25 March 2017 9:00 am

  Washington, DC I hate to admit it, but I think I’m falling in love with Sean Spicer. No doubt…

Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness (Getty)

Lest we forget

25 March 2017 9:00 am

I never met Martin McGuinness, but I was certainly affected by him from an early age. His decisions, and those…

The camps don’t work

25 March 2017 9:00 am

The civil war in Syria, and the resulting displacement of half the population, has been the tragedy of our times.…

The importance of being trolled

25 March 2017 9:00 am

Ever since a Twitter troll was elected 45th President of the United States, the Twitterati has agonised over who to…

Cameron adrift

25 March 2017 9:00 am

It can be cruel, the way politics plays out. At the very moment George Osborne was telling the bemused staff…

Double trouble

18 March 2017 9:00 am

Theresa May is a cautious politician. She has risen to the top by avoiding unnecessary risks; no one survives 18…

Israel Notebook

18 March 2017 9:00 am

On the Israeli side of the Syrian border, near al-Quneitra, you can watch the war. From my vantage point on…

Uncover her face

18 March 2017 9:00 am

I was raised as an observant Muslim in a British family. Women, I was taught, determine their own conduct —…

Redemption for the Ripper

18 March 2017 9:00 am

In the autumn of 1888 London was in a state of terrified excitement over Jack the Ripper. There had never…

Why Milton still matters

18 March 2017 9:00 am

Just 350 years ago, in April 1667, John Milton sold all rights to Paradise Lost to the printer Samuel Simmons…

Little birds, big trouble

18 March 2017 9:00 am

A British military base is being used for a multi-million-quid criminal enterprise, possibly involving the Russian mafia — and Britain…

We all love a winner: T.E. Lawrence

Lawrence of Arabia

18 March 2017 9:00 am

The centenary of General Allenby’s capture of Jerusalem falls later this year. On 11 December 1917, the commander-in-chief of Britain’s…

Dumbing down the house

11 March 2017 9:00 am

Osterley Park on the western fringes of London is a rare survival. A Robert Adam house, with splendid Adam interiors,…