Long life
The Cabinet Office has confirmed that Sir Philip Green’s knighthood is under investigation because of his part in the destruction…
Long life
The Cabinet Office has confirmed that Sir Philip Green’s knighthood is under investigation because of his part in the destruction…
Low life
We returned to the house early the next morning, on the way pleading special permission to pass through the police…
Low life
We returned to the house early the next morning, on the way pleading special permission to pass through the police…
Wow!
Veronica has become quite an addict of Twitter, just as the rest of the young are forsaking it. ‘It’s easy…
Real life
The colourful banners at the Eurotunnel terminal at Calais spell out the words Treat Shop Relax Refresh Eat. But it…
Paddy Ashdown’s magical thinking
The dog days of July probably aren’t the best time to launch a new political movement, but then the people…
Paddy Ashdown’s magical thinking
The dog days of July probably aren’t the best time to launch a new political movement, but then the people…
Aspirin should be reassuringly expensive
Last year, those rationalist killjoys at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission prosecuted Reckitt Benckiser over four products: Nurofen Migraine…
Corbyn’s shadow puppets
Wrapped in his fantasy world of a Labour party ruling the country in accordance with the diktats of those of…
Barometer
Capitalist faces A report by the Business and Pensions select committees described Philip Green as the ‘unacceptable face of capitalism’.…
Diary
When asked to write the Spectator diary, I diligently collated a list of topics to cover. But the problem is…
The new Secretary for War
From ‘The military situation’, The Spectator, 29 July 1916: We have a new Secretary for War. Mr Lloyd George, as we all…
Letters
Better Europeans Sir: There are many reasons why a majority of people in the UK voted to leave the European…
Portrait of the week
Home The collapse of BHS after Sir Philip Green had extracted large sums and left the business on ‘life support’,…
Everything is illuminated
One could honour God with prayer, of course, and build cathedrals, amass treasuries, turn choirs into stained-glass jewel boxes, carve…
The lying game
JT LeRoy was a teenage hustler who emerged from a childhood of abuse, drug addiction and homelessness to write about…
Hang the DJs
Electronic Dance Music is dying. You may not have noticed. It may not affect you directly. But it’s a really…
Hang the DJs
Electronic Dance Music is dying. You may not have noticed. It may not affect you directly. But it’s a really…
Heavenly bodies
Initially it must have been a nasty surprise. On 16 August 1972 an amateur scuba diver named Stefano Mariottini was…
Heavenly bodies
Initially it must have been a nasty surprise. On 16 August 1972 an amateur scuba diver named Stefano Mariottini was…
Flawed genius
An inspired decision to stage Jesus Christ Superstar in a summer theatre in Regent’s Park. The action takes place outdoors,…
Flawed genius
An inspired decision to stage Jesus Christ Superstar in a summer theatre in Regent’s Park. The action takes place outdoors,…
French connection
It takes a particularly wilful wit to alight on Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict as the perfect operatic nod to a…
French connection
It takes a particularly wilful wit to alight on Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict as the perfect operatic nod to a…
