Diary
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We left prepared. Bottles of water, protein snacks, phone chargers, portable Scrabble (even the teenagers can look at the internet…
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The Season has ended and – apart from The Spectator’s summer bash of course – the two bang-up parties of…
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Two and a half years ago I joined the Tory party to vote for Boris, then unjoined as soon as…
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When I was a teenage Tory activist in the mid-1990s, I hoped one day I’d be part of a leadership…
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‘So what did he say?’ I asked the ministerial friend who went to tell Boris last week he had to…
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It feels like the end, but we’ve been here before. The past months of Boris Johnson’s teetering administration have felt…
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I made it through the airport crush to Berlin at the beginning of last week to see how Germany is…
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In 1977, when I set up the South Bank Show for ITV, I wanted Paul McCartney to be on the…
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To Windsor for Garter Day, the first since 2019. With a strong voice and smiles for us all, the Queen…
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I wish I could persuade certain cabinet ministers to put their money where their mouths are. Several times last month…
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When I was asked by an old friend to write this diary, I did my usual thing of: ‘Yeah I’d…
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I met a Canadian couple for lunch in Edinburgh. They were from Vancouver – he a judge, she an opera…
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It is a glorious spring evening in Lviv and what could be better than a ballet gala at one of…
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I wonder at times how some of my fellow hacks in America get out of bed in the morning. The…
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It has been wonderful to welcome seven refugees – and their four dogs – to my home in Suffolk. I’ve…
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I have just got back from Cannes, where I was the president of a jury, judging TV dramas. I’ve never…
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As you may have heard (if you haven’t, I’m losing my narcissistically self-promotional touch) my new TV show Piers Morgan…
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This week has been Passiontide, which means lots of wonderful plainsong in the choir of Canterbury Cathedral as my predecessors…
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Strasbourg Europhobes will never have a better argument against European integration than the seat of the European parliament in…
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Oscar week is intense – and it’s been a while since it’s been as intense. The red carpet is full…
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‘Why the hell did you hire a lorry without a spare tyre?’ asked Rizvana. Fair question. Luckily we had just…
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Skopje, North Macedonia In the West, it’s tempting to believe that revulsion at Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is…
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Central to the question of whether or not Ukraine can survive as an independent state is that of re-supply, not…
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Lviv, Ukraine On the Ukrainian side of the Polish border, near a place called Shehyni where the refugee crisis…
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Yet another east European tragedy is unfolding before our eyes. We have watched this movie for more than 80 years.…
