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American Night
All in the half-dark, we watch the dead playing the parts of the living, in roles we have seen before:…
American Night
All in the half-dark, we watch the dead playing the parts of the living, in roles we have seen before:…
Sorry — but Pope Francis is no liberal
Trendy commentators have fallen in love with a pope of their own invention
Time to Go
Feeling my age, too soon too tired, Whatever gifts I had no more required, I am a hireling called in…
William Astor: My father, his swimming pool and the Profumo scandal
I was ten when the Profumo affair began at my home, Cliveden. Andrew Lloyd Webber has captured some of the story – but not all
Global warming's glorious ship of fools
Eco-warriors stranded in the Antarctic! It’s too good to be true
Don't tax sugar - it doesn't make you fat. Gluttony does
Obesity isn’t a matter of addiction. It’s a question of self-control
'I laughed until I cried, then retched': Boris Johnson on the wit of Simon Hoggart
I really can’t remember exactly how I came to appoint Simon Hoggart the wine correspondent of this magazine, but I…
A girl, a train and a miniature pistol: how I met the Everly Brothers
I had five decades of delight with the Everly Brothers – and it all began on the Flying Scotsman
The Navigators
The 2014 winner of The Spectator’s award for unconventional travel writing
Gardens for all seasons
Winter garden visiting is a solitary pastime, lending itself to the misanthrope, and is highly recommended. When it’s so cold…
Time to Go
Feeling my age, too soon too tired, Whatever gifts I had no more required, I am a hireling called in…
Time to Go
Feeling my age, too soon too tired, Whatever gifts I had no more required, I am a hireling called in…
Watch out Eurocrats, here come the Pirates!
The Eurocrats are crazy to dismiss all the new, diverse Eurosceptic parties as ‘far right’
Unpacking in Bangkok
And then a dozen Muddy miraculous hares Sprang out of the suitcase, Bounding round and round The hotel suite, Drumming…
Why doesn't Russia have a Yad Vashem for the gulag?
Why is there no gulag museum to compare with Yad Vashem?
A dying estate agent helped me see the light
A dying estate agent helped me to see the light
Stand up for the real meaning of freedom
We need conservatism now more than ever
The great recycling myth
There is absolutely no need for us to separate our rubbish by hand
It's a stupid lie to say we're all bisexual
It’s a stupid lie to say that we’re all attracted to both men and women
A cook's tour of China without the crispy caterpillars
A cook’s tour without the crispy caterpillars, by Sybil Kapoor
High tea in Sri Lanka's Hill Country
Alex Massie relaxes amid lush lawns and eccentricity
Havana - a party girl of a city
It’s not just the mojitos that make your head spin in Havana, writes Jonathan Ray
Islands fit for Ingmar Bergman
Kate Eshelby is charmed by the remote Swedish islands where Ingmar Bergman made his home
The pleasures of the Dordogne
Call me a trencherman or worse, but I tend to think of the Dordogne as a giant restaurant-cum-farm shop, set…
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