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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
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
