Life
2748: What’s in a name?
The unclued lights are linked to the title, two using the same thematic content. Across 11 Search volunteer army among…
My lesson in misery from an anti-AI march
Automation is about to take over the world, apparently. But the fightback has begun. On a cold, blowy day a…
Does Jolyon Maugham have any self-doubt?
I was leaving the CNN presidential election night party at dawn in 2016, having celebrated Donald Trump’s victory, when Paul…
Spectator Competition: Bring up the bodies
For Competition 3445 you were invited to provide a sonnet to a previously overlooked body part.In a stellar week –…
Aussie life
‘You’ve come a long way, baby,’ said the slogan which positioned Virginia Slims as the cigarette for the emancipated American…
Language
It was one hundred years ago this year that the great Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova toured Australia and New Zealand…
White port is the new G&T
Spring is here and, as the garden blooms, readers might find themselves reaching for the Pink Diesel to enjoy in…
The perils of being a coffee snob
It was when I was staying recently with the Frums in D.C. that, for a dizzying moment, I thought my…
Is a ‘link-up’ a modern ‘flash mob’?
The public disturbances in Clapham, achieved by social media link-ups, have their precedents. ‘You can imagine what an exhilarating week…
The cattle rustlers have returned
Kenya When a mob of Somali cattle I bought in Kenya’s far north arrived on the farm in February, we…
How far would I go for oil?
The oil delivery man had way too much swagger and, as he waved his nozzle about, I realised that he…
Dear Mary: how can I tell a friend she has Mounjaro face?
Q. Like many women of a certain age, I’m ‘on the pen’. I’ve lost about 20lb on Mounjaro, which I…
The real reason we should be burning our own gas
Regular readers of this column will be familiar with my promoting an idea called a ‘Paceometer’ (pictured). Rather than presenting…
Spectator Competition: Take heed
Comp. 3444 invited you to submit a Hilaire Belloc-style cautionary tale for our times. This one was last set in…
The noble work of chairlift diplomacy
In 1956, three British MPs encountered a group of Swiss politicians in the bar of the Hotel Fluela in Davos…
Aussie life
The middle-class leftist activism that you now encounter every day in Australia and the West has a major flaw. It…
Language
There is a bit of water in the Persian Gulf that is in the news almost every day now –…
Food to slake boredom: Le Café by Nicolas Rouzaud reviewed
Burlington Arcade on Piccadilly has a caff down from Charbonnel et Walker, where you can buy a box of chocolates…
