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Educating Pakistan
The entrepreneur Seema Aziz has founded 256 schools and transformed the lives of many thousands of people. So why does the West ignore her remarkable story?
Lake Iseo
If you’ve never heard of Lake Iseo, you’re not alone. Nestling shyly between chocolate-box Como and glamorous Garda, the smallest…
Lake Iseo
If you’ve never heard of Lake Iseo, you’re not alone. Nestling shyly between chocolate-box Como and glamorous Garda, the smallest…
Desperate state
Disillusioned Islamic State recruits are deserting the bloodthirsty terror group as it loses territory
Abide with Me
Was our first date really a boxer’s funeral? You in pitch, me in black—all in all a noirish affair, how…
The Isis executioner and me
Did my taunt drive Abu Rumaysah to become the new ‘Jihadi John’?
Rwanda’s new tragedy
The ultimate ‘donor darling’ is becoming a dictatorship whose critics live in fear
Sticking to his guns
Whenever there’s another mass shooting in America, like the massacre in San Bernardino last month, I think immediately of my…
The painful truth for Ruth
Scots love their Tory leader. But they won’t vote for her
Public trans sport
My top-deck encounter with a flamboyant stranger
Cirencester
Everywhere you look in Cirencester there’s another animal: a cockerel, a hare, a sheep or a skulking lioness. I rather…
Abide with Me
Was our first date really a boxer’s funeral? You in pitch, me in black—all in all a noirish affair, how…
Cirencester
Everywhere you look in Cirencester there’s another animal: a cockerel, a hare, a sheep or a skulking lioness. I rather…
Abide with Me
Was our first date really a boxer’s funeral? You in pitch, me in black—all in all a noirish affair, how…
I won’t be Corbyn’s man in London . . .
Sadiq Khan is fighting the mayoral battle his way, but he’s still very much on the left
. . . and I won’t be Boris Mark II
Zac Goldsmith explains how he will sell himself to a city that’s now solidly Labour
Bye, George
Is Galloway’s luck finally running out?
Where’s the joy gone?
Britain seems to be suffering from a dearth of lightheartedness
From Celtic tiger to pussycat
A gentle spirit has survived Ireland’s many changes
How to spot a charity snake
Five questions that no one dared to ask Kids Company
Planet of the canapés
Let’s get rid of these ridiculous thimble-sized offerings
Benghazi notebook
In their interview in the Christmas edition of The Spectator, Fraser Nelson and James Forsyth asked the Prime Minister whether…
Pacific Islands: The wildest time
Robin Oakley on what to see in the Galapagos – if you can
France: #ToutsAuBistrot!
Julie Burchill hymns the joys of post-attack Paris
United Arab Emirates: Leaves in the desert
Who goes to the Sharjah International Book Fair? Sam Leith, for one
