Features
Notes on a scandal
I was ten when the Profumo affair began at my home, Cliveden. Andrew Lloyd Webber has captured some of the story – but not all
Ship of fools
Eco-warriors stranded in the Antarctic! It’s too good to be true
Don’t blame sugar
Obesity isn’t a matter of addiction. It’s a question of self-control
Remembering Simon Hoggart, 1946–2014
I really can’t remember exactly how I came to appoint Simon Hoggart the wine correspondent of this magazine, but I…
Fast train to friendship
I had five decades of delight with the Everly Brothers – and it all began on the Flying Scotsman
The Navigators
The 2014 winner of The Spectator’s award for unconventional travel writing
Gardens for all seasons
Winter garden visiting is a solitary pastime, lending itself to the misanthrope, and is highly recommended. When it’s so cold…
Time to Go
Feeling my age, too soon too tired, Whatever gifts I had no more required, I am a hireling called in…
Time to Go
Feeling my age, too soon too tired, Whatever gifts I had no more required, I am a hireling called in…
Here come the Pirates!
The Eurocrats are crazy to dismiss all the new, diverse Eurosceptic parties as ‘far right’
Unpacking in Bangkok
And then a dozen Muddy miraculous hares Sprang out of the suitcase, Bounding round and round The hotel suite, Drumming…
Russia’s missing memorial
Why is there no gulag museum to compare with Yad Vashem?
Death of a salesman
A dying estate agent helped me to see the light
The right way
We need conservatism now more than ever
Litter picking
There is absolutely no need for us to separate our rubbish by hand
Having it both ways
It’s a stupid lie to say that we’re all attracted to both men and women
China: Chinese breakaway
A cook’s tour without the crispy caterpillars, by Sybil Kapoor
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
