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Spectator survey: What would you tell your 14-year-old self?
A Spectator Christmas survey
P.D. James: Who killed the golden age of crime?
The pleasures of ‘Golden Age’ detective fiction – and why it can no longer be written
Friends, soulmates, rivals: the double life of Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud
As friends, artistic soulmates and rivals, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud were the Turner and Constable of the 20th century
Norman Tebbit: My recipe for a contented Christmas dinner
A recipe for relaxed and contented festivities
Act now to save the Middle East's Christians
The Middle East’s most persecuted people need our support
'The pure pleasure of annoying people' - Peregrine Worsthorne at 90
Peregrine Worsthorne, at 90, on age, Thatcher, the public schools and the pleasure of annoying people
Lily Cole's notebook: My digital dream
I’m in London to work on impossible.com, the social network I have been developing for two years. Impossible is a…
Quentin Letts: Why hymns are the true voice of England
In praise of hymn-singing
Ahmed Rashid: The five things that must go right for Afghanistan to prosper
All bets are off when the US troops pull out
Five years ago, I was pronounced dead in Afghanistan. This is what I’ve learned since
Everything changed in a heartstopping moment in Afghanistan
Anthony Horowitz's notebook: Have our schools lost all faith in culture?
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, the Master of the Queen’s Music, recently wrote about the almost total ignorance of young people…
Norman Stone: From Syria to Iraq, the mess of the first world war is with us still
So many of the world’s troubles, even today, can be traced back to the empire-builders of 1914 – and the peace-makers of 1919
Music in Vienna
There is no finer city in which to hear music than Vienna. Or, to put it more felicitously, there is…
Susan Hill short story: The Boy on the Hillside
Listen to Susan Hill read The Boy on the Hillside: [audioboo url=”https://audioboo.fm/boos/1816403-susan-hill-reads-the-boy-on-the-hillside”][/audioboo] The boy, Seth, stirred in his sleep. ‘Cold…’…
Christmas Short Story: The Road Not Travelled
Illustrated by Castro
The Spectator's Christmas Quiz
Set by Christopher Howse
The Christmas Quiz answers
Says who? 1. David Cameron. 2. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Justin Welby. 3. Nick Clegg. 4. Prince…
The Boy on the Hillside
Listen to Susan Hill read The Boy on the Hillside: [audioboo url=”https://audioboo.fm/boos/1816403-susan-hill-reads-the-boy-on-the-hillside”][/audioboo] The boy, Seth, stirred in his sleep. ‘Cold…’…
The Road Not Travelled
Today Meredith Swann is driving in her new car under the M40 flyover checking on her GPS system to see…
The Boy on the Hillside
Listen to Susan Hill read The Boy on the Hillside: [audioboo url=”https://audioboo.fm/boos/1816403-susan-hill-reads-the-boy-on-the-hillside”][/audioboo] The boy, Seth, stirred in his sleep. ‘Cold…’…
The Road Not Travelled
Today Meredith Swann is driving in her new car under the M40 flyover checking on her GPS system to see…
iSPY: How the internet buys and sells your secrets
If you use the internet at all, companies will be grabbing whatever information they can find about you
The 'friends' of others: how Facebook makes stalkers of us all
Everyone you know is stalking everyone else you know – even if they don’t know each other
How our company was nearly bullied to death by a desperate RBS
How one small company was nearly squeezed to death by RBS
Shalom, I’m Santa — how to be Father Christmas in diverse North London
What it takes to be Father Christmas in diverse north London
