Your problems solved
Q. My husband-to-be and I both work full time. We are getting married from his family HQ and his kind…
Past Caring
Le Caprice is a monochrome patch of the 1980s behind the Ritz Hotel, in the part of St James’s that…
Cameron’s “deal” has backfired – badly. So what will he do now?
Throughout his negotiations with the European Union, David Cameron was fatally undermined by his own lack of resolve. He was…
High life
Athens Viewed from Mars, this is a sunny, peaceful city. Up close, however, things ain’t what they used to be.…
Low life
Denis was my guide to and from the new out-of-town Lidl superstore at Salernes in Provence. I drove. The road…
Low life
Denis was my guide to and from the new out-of-town Lidl superstore at Salernes in Provence. I drove. The road…
Not even a thing
Last summer Kim Kardashian, who already had a daughter called North (surname West), announced that she was expecting a boy.…
Real life
If these speed awareness courses get much more entertaining and informative they might become a dangerous incentive to break the…
Don’t cry for John Terry
Just when you were thinking that the Premier League had become a much nicer place without José Mourinho in it,…
Why does no one speak up for poor white boys?
David Cameron can be a frustrating figure at times. He wrote an article for the Sunday Times this week in…
Why does no one speak up for poor white boys?
David Cameron can be a frustrating figure at times. He wrote an article for the Sunday Times this week in…
Second thoughts
Racing Life is all about judgment and I got one thing right at Cheltenham last Saturday after the overnight rain.…
Second thoughts
Racing Life is all about judgment and I got one thing right at Cheltenham last Saturday after the overnight rain.…
In defence of discrimination
David Cameron has accused universities of being xenophobic, racist and prejudiced against the poor. He is too much of a…
Barometer
Ballots drawn Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders tossed a coin to decide which of them was the winner in some…
Diary
There was a cloud over the ‘Oldie of the Year’ awards luncheon this week, which was the death only a…
What to do with Syria?
From ‘The future of Syria’, The Spectator, 5 February 1916: We say with all the emphasis at our command, and…
Australian letters
Madness Sir: I always enjoy The Spectator book reviews. The review by Terry Barnes on Jeremy Sammut’s excellent book The…
Letters
Leave those kids alone Sir: Melanie Phillips was right to raise serious concerns about the emerging practice of challenging children…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, made a speech in Wiltshire about a letter from Donald Tusk, the president of…
Public offence
Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/fightingovercrumbs-euroscepticsandtheeudeal/media.mp3 There are, as adman David Ogilvy remarked, no monuments to committees. (That’s not quite true; Auguste Rodin’s ‘Burghers…
It’s doomed!
The TV sitcom Dad’s Army ran on the BBC from 1968 to 1977 (nine series, 80 episodes) with repeats still…
Unforgettable fire
How much of a compromise does a fashionable choreographer loved by all have to make with his paymasters? When he’s…
‘So quick and chancy’
When asked the question ‘What is art?’, Andy Warhol gave a characteristically flip answer (‘Isn’t that a guy’s name?’). On…
Being and nothingness
Florian Zeller has been reading Pinter. And Pinter started out in repertory thrillers where suspense was created by delaying revelations…
