Wedding
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The Battle for Britain
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West End churls
Cafe Monico, as if named by an illiterate playboy, is on Shaftesbury Avenue between The Curious Incident of the Dog…
Tate
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Speak up
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Show business
Sport has never held much appeal for me, so I rarely venture into stadiums. But I do appreciate their peculiar…
Nursery
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Face value
When Richard III’s bones were unearthed in a Leicester car park, Frankie Boyle suggested the headline ‘Bent royal found at…
Portrait of the week
Home One week before the United Kingdom voted in a referendum on membership of the European Union, Jo Cox, a…
The eyes have it
Tchaikovsky knew what he thought of the title character of his Eugene Onegin. ‘I loved Tatyana, and was furiously indignant…
Diary
It was a nice touch that MPs sat in each other’s seats in the Commons during the tributes to Jo…
Absolutely Fabulous
Absolutely Fabulous, which is about to make its cinema debut, is a comedy about women being useless. I watched it…
Barometer
Big game hunt Wales beat Russia 3–0 to finish above England in their group at the European Football Championships. Which…
High life
I always thought the Freuds a pretty sordid bunch, and after the latest revelations it seems I wasn’t far off.…
Cicero’s Brexit moment
If Remain has won, for all the political and financial flurries, it will be business as usual for us plebs.…
Real life
The cottage in Surrey has fallen through, for the time being at least. Maybe I am going to be a…
Who is this again?
From ‘English or British?’, The Spectator, 25 June 1916: We wish that this question of ‘England’ or ‘Britain’ could be settled satisfactorily,…
On the money
Forced to depart Ascot earlier than usual to fulfil a cruise lecture booking on the fjords, I hadn’t reckoned with…
The Spectator’s Notes
Commentators have complained about this referendum — its ‘lies’, bad manners, bitterness. Without exactly disagreeing, I would nevertheless argue that…
Memorable Mamedyarov
Local hero Shakhriyar Mamedyarov won the Vugar Gashimov Memorial in Shamkir, Azerbaijan by virtue of three consecutive victories at the…
Lovelier than a tree
In Competition No. 2953 you were invited to supply a sonnet that has the name of a tree hidden in…
Was there any way not to traduce Cliff Richard?
Sir Cliff Richard will not be charged with historic sex offences, say the police and Crown Prosecution Service. There is…
Jezza’s playing Glasto: is this a good idea?
I do like a wet and muddy Glastonbury. Albeit, admittedly, not quite as much as I like a dry and…
Your problems solved
Q. A friend’s daughter is marrying soon. She and her husband-to-be, both art-lovers, have dispensed with a wedding list, instead…
Business holds the antidote to acts of voter insanity on both sides of the Atlantic
Good news: ‘My sources in the Gulf tell me they’re poised with big cash to buy into sterling, UK equities…
