High life
I have a question for you, dear readers: is it me, or is there no newspaper or network in America…
Long life
There is no cherished assumption that now goes unchallenged. The latest one is that country air is good for you.…
Long life
There is no cherished assumption that now goes unchallenged. The latest one is that country air is good for you.…
Low life
Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir This morning I was woken just before daylight by the clear ‘ting’ of a meditation…
Low life
Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir This morning I was woken just before daylight by the clear ‘ting’ of a meditation…
Doric
I’d seen The Gruffalo in Latin, so I was delighted when Veronica showed me a version her daughter had been…
Real life
What is happening to estate agents? Or let me put it another way. If the professional classes thought they were…
Is Keith Vaz a psychopath?
What’s wrong with you?’ That was the question an American broadcaster asked Anthony Weiner when his New York City mayoral…
Is Keith Vaz a psychopath?
What’s wrong with you?’ That was the question an American broadcaster asked Anthony Weiner when his New York City mayoral…
Watch out for Chesterton’s fences
There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a…
Aristotle on Brexit voters
It comes as no surprise to find that there has recently been much talk among Brexit supporters about ‘the wisdom…
Barometer
In it together Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley were elected co-leaders of the Green party. Has a political party had…
Diary
At weekends in our summerhouse at Quogue on Long Island, we go out to buy the newspapers and paper-cup coffee…
Fire in the sky
From ‘The burning of the Zeppelin’, The Spectator, 9 September 1916: Half London formed the vast proscenium for this tragedy…
Letters
What Swedes don’t say Sir: Tove Lifvendahl is, unfortunately, exactly right in her analysis of Swedish immigration and asylum policy…
Australian letters
Gonski bureaucrats Sir: John Slater “I don’t Give a Gonski” reflects, unlike what the intellectual left preach, what most mature,…
Portrait of the Week
Home David Davis, the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, made his first statement to the Commons and…
On the money
Kublai Khan, said Marco Polo, had ‘a more extensive command of treasure than any other sovereign in the universe’. There…
Time to change the record
Back in the high optimism of the 2008 presidential campaign, one of Barack Obama’s more extravagant hopes was that ‘the…
This charmless man
I was looking forward to going to Malcolm Williamson’s opera English Eccentrics set to a text by Edith Sitwell at…
This charmless man
I was looking forward to going to Malcolm Williamson’s opera English Eccentrics set to a text by Edith Sitwell at…
Brackish as old Brylcream
Kenneth Branagh’s obsession with Larry Olivier’s career is becoming such a bizarre act of theatrical necromancy that it deserves to…
Brackish as old Brylcream
Kenneth Branagh’s obsession with Larry Olivier’s career is becoming such a bizarre act of theatrical necromancy that it deserves to…
Saintly sins
They say that the devil gets all the best tunes, and on the basis of this week’s opera-going it would…
Saintly sins
They say that the devil gets all the best tunes, and on the basis of this week’s opera-going it would…
