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Washington Notebook
This week has been all about the election, the US presidential election that is. It is 18 months away but…
Barbados
Unusually, I didn’t leave the British Isles until I was 35, when I went to the Maldives for a fortnight.…
Barbados
Unusually, I didn’t leave the British Isles until I was 35, when I went to the Maldives for a fortnight.…
One-nation Boris
Whoever wins the election, the London Mayor is going to be all right
This is May
The soot sunk clouds have gone — to blacken someone else’s landscape. The tugging, ripping, girl-fight wind that stole the…
Miliband country
A ‘progressive alliance’ would be a profound threat to rural life
Vote Tory
Five Spectator contributors on why they’re voting for Cameron (and one on why he isn’t)
Mansion migrants
The super-rich can shrug off Labour’s big tax idea. People like me will be forced out
The people from the sea
Encounters with those who have risked their lives to cross the Mediterranean
Tinder feelings
Can mobile dating apps move beyond the promise of a one-night stand?
Plan Bee
What the hive knows about democracy that humans have yet to learn
Marseille
If you haven’t been lost in Marseille then you can’t have been there. As Alexandre Dumas wrote, this is a…
This is May
The soot sunk clouds have gone — to blacken someone else’s landscape. The tugging, ripping, girl-fight wind that stole the…
Marseille
If you haven’t been lost in Marseille then you can’t have been there. As Alexandre Dumas wrote, this is a…
This is May
The soot sunk clouds have gone — to blacken someone else’s landscape. The tugging, ripping, girl-fight wind that stole the…
‘I have worked my socks off’
An interview with David Cameron
The boy David
Lunch with a young Cameron on polling day, 1992
The Plame game
Scooter Libby’s conviction looks ever shakier – and a sign of the deep problem with America’s special prosecutors
Rhodes to nowhere
Protesting students in Cape Town may disdain the statue of Cecil Rhodes, yet they do not reject his legacy
The other kingmaker
In a Tory-leaning hung parliament, the DUP’s Nigel Dodds may command the balance of power. So what does he want?
Shrunk
America’s psychoanalysts are becoming an endangered species
The roots of the matter
British people buy £43 million worth of human hair a year. So who’s selling?
Palace Notebook
The day of my investiture at Buckingham Palace dawned bringing freezing rain and fierce winds, which lashed at the windows…
Remembering Raymond
Laughter, bird-watching and erudition with Raymond Carr
Wine tasting
One of the great jokes of the wine trade is: ‘Have you ever confused Burgundy with Bordeaux?’ ‘Not since this…
