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Mr Dixon
I can’t think of anyone else still alive who knew him, and could reminisce with me about his special kindness,…
Mr Dixon
I can’t think of anyone else still alive who knew him, and could reminisce with me about his special kindness,…
‘Please, Scotland, stay with us’
A selection of Spectator readers’ letters to Scottish voters
Sometimes it’s Better to Give than to Receive
I can see your teeth clench with rage at the gift I have pressed on you, which manoeuvres you into…
Borderline personalities
Is national character real? If so, how is it formed?
I’d run the country like a shot
Ken Livingstone on Boris, Scotland, Northern Ireland – and being out of power
The spirit of Athens
The forces that made the world’s first democracy great are alive and well in modern London
A Theatre Supper
I don’t know why it’s become important to me: the idea of a theatre supper at home? Maybe it’s a…
Field of dreams
Why I’m helping to build a cricket stadium in Rwanda
Designer Notebook
This summer brought highs and lows, sadness and laughter, some irritating, some exhilarating. I was fortunate to be uplifted by…
Builders
I have a friend who is perhaps best described by that old-fashioned phrase ‘ladies’ man’. He’s not a cad or…
Sometimes it’s Better to Give than to Receive
I can see your teeth clench with rage at the gift I have pressed on you, which manoeuvres you into…
A Theatre Supper
I don’t know why it’s become important to me: the idea of a theatre supper at home? Maybe it’s a…
Sometimes it’s Better to Give than to Receive
I can see your teeth clench with rage at the gift I have pressed on you, which manoeuvres you into…
A Theatre Supper
I don’t know why it’s become important to me: the idea of a theatre supper at home? Maybe it’s a…
Divide and don’t rule
Cameron’s inability to manage schisms within his own party could cost him the election
Revolt on the right
Eurosceptics are sensing a new opportunity
A ladder for everyone
Justine Greening says that the Conservatives will not win big until they really home in on social mobility
Russia’s Nato myth
Claims by Putin and Gorbachev about the post-Soviet settlement are contradicted by their country’s own secret records
A life worth living
I know that people with Down’s syndrome are not better off dead, because I know my son
The final crossing
Italy’s decriminalising of illegal immigration has acted as a green light to boat people, and the journey is a deadly one
A vote for real politics
Whatever the outcome of the referendum, Scotland will be better for having had the debate
Waiting for the backlash
The headlines give British Muslims good reason to worry
Sicily
Don’t make the mistake of thinking that Sicily is anything like the Isle of Wight: it’s 70 times the size,…
999 emergency
Britain’s ambulance services are in crisis. When will the government notice?
