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The Tour de France
On Saturday at Mont St Michel, the 103rd edition of the Tour de France begins, and the favourite to win…
A sadder, wiser referendum
In June 1975, I was given the heavy responsibility of writing the Telegraph’s ‘light’ op-ed on the conduct of the…
Bear baiting
Oh those Russians. When they’re not beating up English football fans, they’re cheating at the Olympics. They occupy other countries…
Britain’s great divide
In Notting Hill Gate, in west London, the division was obvious. On the east side of the street was a…
Twists, turns and good red herrings
Jessie Burton’s first novel, The Miniaturist, set in 17th-century Amsterdam, read like a lantern-slide show. Her churches were by Pieter…
The happiness police
On a recent sodden weekend walk, I tried to cheer myself up by thinking: it’s not so bad. Not the slugs…
Abuse of justice
It’s easy to forget that laws are supposed to do something useful. Legislation is increasingly press-release law, which makes everyone…
The misery of black tie
Men don’t look good in black tie. They might think that they look like Sean Connery in Dr No, but…
The misery of black tie
Men don’t look good in black tie. They might think that they look like Sean Connery in Dr No, but…
Brexit’s bitter harvest
Nick Cohen and Fraser Nelson discuss The Spectator’s decision to back Brexit: We British flatter ourselves that common sense is…
Trump’s train wreck
If you think the Conservative party is in a bad way over Europe, spare a thought for the Republicans of…
Daddy issues
Just in time for Fathers’ Day, when thousands of British men will receive cards addressed to ‘The World’s Best Dad!’,…
An elegy for Oldham
My home town of Oldham is the sort of place people imagine when they think of ‘The North’. It has…
Who to nudge next
‘For ten years or so, my name was “that jerk”,’ says Professor Richard Thaler, president of the American Economics Association…
Dear diaries
I am a compulsive diarist and have been since I was 16. My daughter fantasises that even as a mad…
Gatton Park
Gatton Park is probably Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown’s least famous landscape. It is tucked away near Reigate Hill, just beyond the…
Gatton Park
Gatton Park is probably Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown’s least famous landscape. It is tucked away near Reigate Hill, just beyond the…
Royal Ascot
It’s time to scuttle under a rock if you are a Folkestone or Cornish crab: 7,000 of them will be…
Purge of the posh
Should employees be judged by their parents’ income?
If only they could vote…
Britain’s animals would be solidly for Leave. Here’s why
The snowflake factory
We’re training our children to be thin-skinned, censorious and belligerently entitled
Blue plaque blues
One of the great distinctions and pleasures of British life has been devalued by cheap imitations
One night in the backwoods
The man I met in the moose-hunters' bar, and what happened between us
Elephant in the room
Burning stockpiles of ivory was meant to wipe out poaching. After nearly 30 years, is it working?
Brodie Castle
Is there a more forlornly romantic spot in Britain than the moors east of Inverness where the Jacobite dream died?…
