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Valentine’s Day
One of the many things I love about my wife is that she doesn’t make me do anything for Valentine’s…
Zeteticism
Whatever savants say, the world is flat, not round; the ships that crowd the bay are for its limit bound.…
Zeteticism
Whatever savants say, the world is flat, not round; the ships that crowd the bay are for its limit bound.…
Britain’s one-child policy
The runaway cost of living is making big middle-class families an endangered species
Tulips
My love arrived with tulips, ‘ten for a fiver’, picked up from the supermarket at the end of the street.…
Let them eat whales
Marine charities should stop obsessing about a few Faroe islanders and go after the real villains
Stop that cab!
It’s time to end the archaic privileges of London taxi drivers
Israel’s A-bomb
The other big foreign threat to the Jewish state
Stumped!
Will Test cricket survive the Age of India?
Putin’s pink peril
Russia’s thuggish President has picked on the wrong minority
South-west Ireland
Of course one feels free on a holiday: that’s what holidays are for. But I have rarely felt freer than…
Tulips
My love arrived with tulips, ‘ten for a fiver’, picked up from the supermarket at the end of the street.…
Tulips
My love arrived with tulips, ‘ten for a fiver’, picked up from the supermarket at the end of the street.…
Armageddon awaits
Sunni vs Shia, Saudi Arabia vs Iran. A new great war has begun
The Commons touch
It’s not just the women who work at Westminster who can expect to receive unwelcome advances. I should know
Why aid fails
David Cameron’s favourite authors on what the government gets wrong about tackling poverty
America’s war on sleep
The relentless rise of ‘you snooze, you lose’
Agitprop for toddlers
The oddly strident politics of CBeebies
Florence Notebook
Florence was in fog the day I arrived. Its buildings were bathed in white cloud, its people moved as though…
Golf in the Algarve
My second tee shot soared high and straight, then hurtled down towards the lake; a repeat of my first. I…
Britain’s dirty secret
A documentary has finally exposed what life is like at the bottom. So why is the left so angry?
The return of compassionate Conservatism
‘Has the Secretary of State, like me, managed to watch programmes such as Benefits Street and On Benefits & Proud?…
All the president’s women
Hollande’s affair demonstrates that the French are becoming more puritanical about monogamy
Home truths
Did Macmillan stitch up his succession – or did Iain Macleod’s famous Spectator piece, 50 years old this week, stitch up Macmillan?
The Mandela files
His long-lost prison manuscript sheds new light on the president’s politics, smoothed over in ‘Long Walk to Freedom’
