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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
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…
How to save Conservatism
Iain Duncan Smith on the fallout from his shock resignation
A poem for Erdogan
Pen a foul verse in honour of the Turkish leader and be in the running for a £1,000 poetry prize!
The fairytale factory
Leicester City’s triumphs demonstrate once again sport’s capacity to replay archetypal stories




























