Dear Mary
Q. At a drinks party at Christie’s this evening my face was splattered with flecks of spit from the guest…
Trumped!
Trump Tower sits between Gucci and Tiffany on Fifth Avenue in New York City. It looks like infant Lego, the…
Doing Brexit right
From the start of the European Union referendum campaign, competing visions of Brexit have been advocated. To Nigel Farage, the…
High life
Athens I can only ask sardonically: was it worth it? Executed after unspeakable torture without giving anything away — and…
Long life
I am very bad at remembering my dreams: I would have been a poor patient for Dr Freud. But I…
Long life
I am very bad at remembering my dreams: I would have been a poor patient for Dr Freud. But I…
Low life
Our friend Anthony was reportedly dying and a party of four drove over to the nursing home to say cheerio.…
Low life
Our friend Anthony was reportedly dying and a party of four drove over to the nursing home to say cheerio.…
Carillion
‘Look, darling, a spelling mistake,’ said my husband, looking out of the window, as he had been for minutes, like…
Big trouble upstream
At a wedding a few years back a very gloomy looking guest, a well-known Geordie actor as it happens, arrived…
A myth that keeps growing and growing
I had lunch recently with an assistant head of a leading independent school and he told me about their ‘growth…
A myth that keeps growing and growing
I had lunch recently with an assistant head of a leading independent school and he told me about their ‘growth…
The turf
You had to feel for ITV’s new racing team on their opening day at Cheltenham. It was cold, wet and…
The turf
You had to feel for ITV’s new racing team on their opening day at Cheltenham. It was cold, wet and…
An emperor’s inauguration
Given that Donald Trump is not the most popular president the USA has ever seen, even among his own party,…
Barometer
Starting cold Why is US Presidential Inauguration Day always on 20 January? — The date was moved from 4 March…
Who commands the sea?
From ‘Raiders, submarines and some naval problems’, The Spectator, 20 January 1917: At the moment the enemy’s fleet is compelled to…
Australian letters
Rubbish in, rubbish out These are days of momentous, world-shaking, events. But none can match the global impact of the…
Letters
Particle of faith Sir: Fraser Nelson draws our attention to the most worrying aspect of economists getting it wrong, which…
Portrait of the week
Home Britain will leave the single market on leaving the European Union, Theresa May, the Prime Minister, said in a…
High Noon USA
It’s going to be spectacular, it’s going to be ugly and it’s going to be war. The liberal elites in…
Turnbull’s Labor dream
In 1993, Malcolm Turnbull was at a crossroads. Paul Keating had given the well-known journalist, lawyer, banker and republican his…
Truth verboten
This time last year, the German media lost the confidence of the German people. News of the mass New Year’s…
Ruing the day
Here comes Australia Day again and with it, like professional wailers preceding a Sicilian funeral, the chorus of media penitents…
