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30 June 2016 1:00 pm

Referendum day is as nondescript and wet as the day before, happily spent in Cambridge at my son’s Leo’s graduation.…

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25 June 2016 3:00 am

It was a nice touch that MPs sat in each other’s seats in the Commons during the tributes to Jo…

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23 June 2016 2:00 am

It was a nice touch that MPs sat in each other’s seats in the Commons during the tributes to Jo…

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18 June 2016 9:00 am

Flabby, vaguely disorientated and, more than three years on, still struggling with stroke recovery, I am on a radical diet.…

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16 June 2016 1:00 pm

Flabby, vaguely disorientated and, more than three years on, still struggling with stroke recovery, I am on a radical diet.…

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9 June 2016 1:00 pm

When an old friend X came to dinner in London, I sampled what it must have been like during the…

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4 June 2016 9:00 am

In 1873, when Jules Verne published his Around the World in Eighty Days, it seemed worth betting that a circumnavigation…

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2 June 2016 1:00 pm

In 1873, when Jules Verne published his Around the World in Eighty Days, it seemed worth betting that a circumnavigation…

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28 May 2016 9:00 am

Why do we assume all doctors are good? We don’t think there are no bad cooks or bad plumbers. But…

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26 May 2016 1:00 pm

Why do we assume all doctors are good? We don’t think there are no bad cooks or bad plumbers. But…

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21 May 2016 9:00 am

Not only are today’s young girls having to work hard on their abs, butts and glutes, now the likes of…

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19 May 2016 1:00 pm

Not only are today’s young girls having to work hard on their abs, butts and glutes, now the likes of…

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14 May 2016 9:00 am

On Thursday morning I’m woken by day three of a tension headache firing tentacles up the back of my neck…

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12 May 2016 1:00 pm

On Thursday morning I’m woken by day three of a tension headache firing tentacles up the back of my neck…

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7 May 2016 9:00 am

I am no admirer of Donald Trump — not because he is a doomsayer and professional patriot but because he…

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5 May 2016 1:00 pm

I am no admirer of Donald Trump — not because he is a doomsayer and professional patriot but because he…

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30 April 2016 9:00 am

I’m a lucky man. My novel House of Cards transformed my life, yet I wrote it almost by accident nearly…

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28 April 2016 1:00 pm

I’m a lucky man. My novel House of Cards transformed my life, yet I wrote it almost by accident nearly…

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23 April 2016 9:00 am

The Queen’s 90th birthday celebrations start this week with the real thing and barely stop until her official birthday in…

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21 April 2016 1:00 pm

The Queen’s 90th birthday celebrations start this week with the real thing and barely stop until her official birthday in…

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16 April 2016 9:00 am

With hindsight maybe it was silly for me to bleat, ‘As everyone knows, the Johnsons are neither posh nor rich’…

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14 April 2016 1:00 pm

With hindsight maybe it was silly for me to bleat, ‘As everyone knows, the Johnsons are neither posh nor rich’…

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9 April 2016 9:00 am

It’s clear that Vladimir Putin has had a facelift, which might explain why Wendi Deng would take an interest in…

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7 April 2016 1:00 pm

It’s clear that Vladimir Putin has had a facelift, which might explain why Wendi Deng would take an interest in…

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2 April 2016 9:00 am

I’d like this to have been one of those Spectator diaries that gives the ordinary reader a glimpse into the…