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The pleasures of Puglia
If Italy is the elegant, over-the-knee boot plunged into the Mediterranean, then Puglia is the narrow peninsula that forms its…
United States: Deep South, full strength
Explore Mississippi and the Delta before they’re rebranded, says James Walton
Faroe Islands: A whale of a time
The Faroes are a wonderful place to visit, discovers Camilla Swift
Albania
Seferis’s line about his native Greece, ‘Our country is a closed in place, all mountains’, haunted my mind as I…
Albania
Seferis’s line about his native Greece, ‘Our country is a closed in place, all mountains’, haunted my mind as I…
Charles Moore vs David Hare: a one-act play
Charles Moore and David Hare sit in the editor’s office at The Spectator, Hare on a brown leather chesterfield,…
Faith is left, right. . . and central
An interview with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby
Sex acts
Should actors be speaking for trans people?
The wings of winter
Our harsh December days are a temperate escape for some gorgeous birds
Cameron’s great escape
An interview with the Prime Minister
What’s wrong with Hillary
A Trump vs Clinton tussle for the US presidency is now likely. She can’t be that bad . . . can she?
What I got right
And what the Labour party is now getting wrong
Australian Notebook
Margaret River, Western Australia I’m here for a food festival, and to help along my autobiography. The Blonde had cashed…
‘All he did done perfectly’
In memory of my Irish hunter Tommy, who died last month
Afghanistan’s new agony
So many lives lost, a trillion dollars spent, yet the Taleban is resurgent
Christmas Notebook
As I strolled through the aisles in a large department store, I almost choked when I read a large display…
The year of the cad
From Lord Sewel to – let’s not be sexist – Sally Bercow, there’s life in the old rogue yet
London Notebook
I’ve spent much of the autumn and winter shooting my new TV series for BBC1. New Blood looks at the…
Notebook
This time last year I was running around excitedly telling all my friends that I had an African president in…
Seasonal advice from the great and the good
Clare Balding I love a good walk on Boxing Day followed by watching the racing at Kempton. Avoid the internet.…
Would you believe it? A selection of ancient faiths ripe for revival
After the success of Stoicism, more ancient faiths are ripe for revival
My surreal Christmas in hospital with a dangerously ill child
My surreal Christmas in hospital with a dangerously ill child
Ed Balls’ Christmas Day starter recipe
Cooking the Christmas dinner is my job in our house. And I love it. All those courses and juggling of…
Mrs Badgery
Wilkie Collins’s ‘Mrs Badgery’, rarely seen since its first publication in Dickens’s Household Words magazine in September 1857, is an…
Pisa
Say ‘Pisa’ and everyone thinks of the Leaning Tower. Fair enough; it’s a curiosity, and the tourist board must be…
