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The Spectator

31 October 2026 AUS

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Life

Aussie Life

Aussie life

Small boys have always had big parts in fables – putting fingers in dykes, crying wolf, climbing beanstalks and so…

Aussie Life

Language

There it was in the newspaper – the use of ‘hone in on’ when the only correct usage is ‘home…

Sport

Is Harry Brook a good captain?

How cheering to realise that, as winter decides to make itself properly felt, the world of cricket has given us…

The Vintage Chef

Why don’t more people bake beignets?

Beignets are one of those unusual foodstuffs that are on the one hand wildly popular in their birthplace, even going…

The turf

Can racing survive Labour’s gambling tax rises?

By the age of 13, Alex Wood was a virtuoso violinist, though he was later sentenced to seven years in…

Competition

Spectator Competition: The doubtful ghost

For Comp. 3473 (and Halloween) you were invited to submit ambiguous ghost stories in which the ‘presence’ may or may…

Dolce vita

How to sleep with 1,000 women

Dante’s Beach, Ravenna The other day the Telegraph launched a daily newsletter called ‘Characters’ about its remarkably popular obituaries column.…

Best life

My big media announcement

Like Marina Hyde, Amol Rajan, Vanessa Feltz, Holly Willoughby, et al, I have a massive personal announcement to make. But…

No sacred cows

Why we shouldn’t try to ‘kill’ AI

When the late Robert Maxwell threatened to sue me for using the IT system of the European to help produce…

Dear Mary

Dear Mary: how can I stop my flatmate using clingfilm?

Q. For the past seven years I’ve had my hair cut by the same barber. I’ll call him ‘Z’. Z…

Drink

Surrender to the Super Tuscans

At the beginning of the month, the cellars of Marchesi Antinori in Tuscany were breached in spectacular fashion. Over the…