Features
Sri Lanka: High tea in the Hill Country
Alex Massie relaxes amid lush lawns and eccentricity
Cuba: Intoxicating city
It’s not just the mojitos that make your head spin in Havana, writes Jonathan Ray
Baltic Islands: Brutally seductive
Kate Eshelby is charmed by the remote Swedish islands where Ingmar Bergman made his home
The Dordogne
Call me a trencherman or worse, but I tend to think of the Dordogne as a giant restaurant-cum-farm shop, set…
Unpacking in Bangkok
And then a dozen Muddy miraculous hares Sprang out of the suitcase, Bounding round and round The hotel suite, Drumming…
Unpacking in Bangkok
And then a dozen Muddy miraculous hares Sprang out of the suitcase, Bounding round and round The hotel suite, Drumming…
The new great game
Putin is not the only dictator willing to exploit weak western leadership
Cameron’s gifts
He’d like to present you with single-party government and lower tax rates, among other things
Artist’s Notebook
We live by simple stories. X has a stroke. X recovers; or doesn’t. But we live inside more complicated stories.…
Letter from London
John Lloyd, producer of Blackadder, Spitting Image, QI etc, has boldly picked up where he left off at Cambridge more…
What would you tell your 14-year-old self?
A Spectator Christmas survey
A nice gentle murder
The pleasures of ‘Golden Age’ detective fiction – and why it can no longer be written
Double vision
As friends, artistic soulmates and rivals, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud were the Turner and Constable of the 20th century
Christmas pheasant
A recipe for relaxed and contented festivities
Protect the Christians
The Middle East’s most persecuted people need our support
On the contrary
Peregrine Worsthorne, at 90, on age, Thatcher, the public schools and the pleasure of annoying people
Digital Notebook
I’m in London to work on impossible.com, the social network I have been developing for two years. Impossible is a…
Voices of England
In praise of hymn-singing
Afghanistan year zero
All bets are off when the US troops pull out
My life after death
Everything changed in a heartstopping moment in Afghanistan
A writer’s notebook
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, the Master of the Queen’s Music, recently wrote about the almost total ignorance of young people…
Wrong track
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…
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
Illustrated by Castro
