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Carry on campus
British higher education is in a boom that’s bound to go bust
Guilty displeasures
It is now entirely cool to adore the uncool. But what about the things we can’t admit to not enjoying?
The death of the funeral
I mourn for the traditional ceremony
Bullfighting
Looking at the programme for the feria of San Isidro in Madrid this month (bullfights are being held on 31…
Arrest
The sun always grabs us by surprise its yolky wash on a pub wall the clumsy spill round the black…
Bullfighting
Looking at the programme for the feria of San Isidro in Madrid this month (bullfights are being held on 31…
Arrest
The sun always grabs us by surprise its yolky wash on a pub wall the clumsy spill round the black…
Turkey’s triumph
President Erdogan has the EU’s leaders exactly where he wants them
Beware the Lycra louts
Cycling in funny clothes is bad for the soul
How to save Labour
The party needs real radicalism – it is in the hands of an ugly simulacrum
A toe-curling tragedy
Zac Goldsmith’s London campaign was an embarrassment
The axeman next door
What happened when I tried American neighbourliness in London
Let’s renew the EU
There is more to the idea of Europe than narrow economic considerations. The Remain side needs to say so
Clumber spaniels
For the first time in more than 30 years we have no Clumber spaniel. We have had five: Henry, Judith,…
A right mess
Conservatism is having a nervous breakdown
Cotton Belt Notebook
Clarksdale, Mississippi, where Highway 61 crosses 49 and Robert Johnson met the Devil, who taught him the secret of the…
Prince and me
The untold story
Who needs governments?
The Spanish seem to be doing better without one
When novels kill
If we claim books can heal, we must accept they can also harm
Acid trip
Another pillar of climate alarmism is looking distinctly wobbly
The unlikely oilman
Former Spectator owner Algy Cluff on Margaret Thatcher, Robert Mugabe and Brexit
Indoor gardening
A year or so ago, I inherited a cardboard box filled with plants. It was an offshoot from an enormous…
Indoor gardening
A year or so ago, I inherited a cardboard box filled with plants. It was an offshoot from an enormous…
Obama’s overreach
The US President is in no position to lecture the British about foreign policy
He speaks for America
Don’t fool yourself about the anti-Brexit consensus in the US – or the excellent reasons for it
