Features
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
Christmas Quiz
Set by Christopher Howse
The Christmas Quiz answers
Says who? 1. David Cameron. 2. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Justin Welby. 3. Nick Clegg. 4. Prince…
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
Today Meredith Swann is driving in her new car under the M40 flyover checking on her GPS system to see…
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
Today Meredith Swann is driving in her new car under the M40 flyover checking on her GPS system to see…
Little Brothers are watching you
If you use the internet at all, companies will be grabbing whatever information they can find about you
The friends of others
Everyone you know is stalking everyone else you know – even if they don’t know each other
