The holy sinner
There are a few pop stars whose work I can’t help liking in spite of myself – their song-writing, that…
Behind palace doors
Apart from when the government has been self-immolating, the royal family has dominated the news recently: the passing of Queen…
What Meghan got
In June 2017 Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair, was surprised when Jane Sarkin, his features editor, told him…
Bad old Boston
The American poet Robert Lowell (1917-77) was a so-called ‘Boston Brahmin’, a Lowell of Boston, where, in the widely known…
Bony horsemen and miller’s thumbs
Despite its many centuries of popularity – enthusiasts have ranged from Cleopatra to Eric Clapton – angling has been the…
Braggart and bully
Brawling, boozing and womanising, those vaunted hell-raisers of the 1960s – Peter O’Toole, Oliver Reed, Richard Burton and, of course,…
A calm authority
In Keep Talking, David Dimbleby takes us through a gentle romp of a stellar, unrivalled broadcasting career spanning, incredibly, 70…
And the moral of the story is…
From time to time newspapers invite writers to describe the ‘books that changed my life’. The resulting columns too often…
Illustrator’s Notebook
The post Christmas past and present: an illustrator’s view appeared first on The Spectator. Got something to add?…
Wild life
Kenya Tonj is a war-battered settlement on a river that eventually feeds into the White Nile, in South Sudan. When…
