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Actor’s notebook
I’m on the road, a very proper place for an actor to be. Never mind all those jokes about some…
Cold comfort
Can Germany’s solidarity with Ukraine survive the winter?
World king vs future king
Boris and Charles have had slightly fractious dealings so far
War of words
Scrabble players are being censored
A vroom of one’s own
Oh how I loved my old Mini
A blunt instrument
Economic sanctions have never worked
The National Army Museum
Five years ago this month I wrote an article in The Spectator denouncing the National Army Museum after its £24…
The odd couple
Israel and Turkey’s tentative alliance
Putin’s bonanza
Is the Kremlin winning the sanctions war?
To boo or not to boo
Are modern theatre-goers too polite?
The enemy within
Have we reached a new stage in the war against cancer?
Top flight
Why Ryanair is Europe’s best airline
Why we fight
Ukrainians will never accept a fake peace with Putin
Who speaks for Muslims?
Not all 3.4 million of us in Britain want to ban films
Ring of fire
My 68 seconds as a white-collar boxer
Leaderless
Voters are increasingly unsure where to turn
Elderflower
There’s an old saying that English summertime begins when the frothy heads of elderflowers appear in hedgerows – and ends…
Letter from Transylvania
For the first time since the pandemic, Prince Charles has returned to Transylvania. When he visits the small village of…
‘We can show these crimes to the planet’
Ukraine’s chief prosecutor on her country’s quest for justice
Hot stuff
The reality TV star who’s turned astrophysicist
Rive gauche
How much of a threat to Macron is France’s new left coalition?
Beach huts
Despite claims the property market is on the brink of a crash, one niche seems recession-proof: beach huts, barely bigger…
Plotting on
The rebels still plan to see off Boris
Speed freaks
The danger and glory of the Isle of Man TT
Novelist’s Notebook
A dispiriting week. Three months ago, skips arrived, into which were cast the detritus of a decade. Charity shops were…
