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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…

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31 March 2016 2:00 pm

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

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26 March 2016 9:00 am

Killing time in a Heathrow first-class lounge, I notice how many men adopt an unmistakable ‘first-class lounge’ persona. They stand…

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23 March 2016 3:00 pm

Killing time in a Heathrow first-class lounge, I notice how many men adopt an unmistakable ‘first-class lounge’ persona. They stand…

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19 March 2016 9:00 am

To while away the time at airports, I like to spot celebrities. But pickings have been slim. Where is everyone?…

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17 March 2016 3:00 pm

To while away the time at airports, I like to spot celebrities. But pickings have been slim. Where is everyone?…

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12 March 2016 9:00 am

Have you ever set your face against a book? This year sees Charlotte Brontë’s bicentenary and the novelist Tracy Chevalier…

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10 March 2016 3:00 pm

Have you ever set your face against a book? This year sees Charlotte Brontë’s bicentenary and the novelist Tracy Chevalier…

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5 March 2016 9:00 am

Just as the presidential race in America started to get really crazy, I left for India. On the morning of…

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3 March 2016 3:00 pm

Just as the presidential race in America started to get really crazy, I left for India. On the morning of…

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27 February 2016 9:00 am

The Prime Minister is pretty angry with Boris. But the idea that they’ve competed with each other since school is…

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25 February 2016 3:00 pm

The Prime Minister is pretty angry with Boris. But the idea that they’ve competed with each other since school is…

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20 February 2016 9:00 am

I knew, the minute my job was first mooted, on the steps of San Francesco church in the sun-drenched, mafia-infested…

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18 February 2016 3:00 pm

I knew, the minute my job was first mooted, on the steps of San Francesco church in the sun-drenched, mafia-infested…

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13 February 2016 9:00 am

While browsing in Barter Books, the wonderful secondhand bookshop in Alnwick that is fast becoming a national institution, I came…