Lessons in the surreal
The new season of the Serial podcast (produced by the same team who make This American Life) was launched last…
Pink ball diary
As a lover of cricket and history, the chance to witness the first-ever day-night Test match was something I was…
Sharing the Dog
The Dog share didn’t work out well in the end. For a start, Dog — no mean manipulator — cadged…
Siftings
And we awake like children to tiny snow sprinkled on shed and car roofs, thinking, Will it last, will it…
Bridge
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same… Well, Kipling obviously never…
Culture defeat
Could somebody please disband the miserable committees whose ‘job’ it is to select the so-called ‘Australian of the Year’? No…
Mr Bear is back: sit tight because he may be with us for a while
Like Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant, we’ve just been savaged by a bear but we’ll probably survive. Leading UK-listed stocks…
Time to put my money where my mouth is
‘As oil crashes, is it time to short solar stocks?’ Gosh, I wish I’d read that headline a year ago.…
Stay or leave, Europe is sinking anyway
Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/whysexmatters-thedeathofsportandistheeusinkingwhetherbrexithappensornot-/media.mp3 As Tory ministers wrestle with their consciences before the EU referendum, an intriguing new argument for voting to…
An inconvenient truth
On the face of it, the Netflix documentary serial Making a Murderer should only take up ten hours of your…
Diary
For years, I’ve wondered why so many clever people go to Davos to discuss topics as meaningless as ‘the new…
If you’re stupid enough to let all these people in, at least treat them decently
We were on our way to a party in south-east London when my friend, Rob, saw the graffiti. Sprayed with…
The centre-right is failing world-wide – so what’s the secret of Cameron’s success?
His refugee policy has been both humane and politically sustainable. Angela Merkel’s has been neither
The Spectator’s Notes
Plus: the late Bishop Bell of Chichester; Airey Neave; the IRA; China; and the problematic case of Tesco wine
The Oscars have a disgracefully racist record
But then all the best actors are ignored, regardless of race. The Academy Awards committee prefers third-rate ones
Rhodes’s statue should remain, on one condition
It should be allowed to remain — but opposite it should be erected a new statue of Lobengula, the great Matabele leader
Corbynglish as a second language: a political dictionary of terms
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is so far out of the political mainstream he needs a whole new dictionary of terms
Come back Pesto, all is forgiven: and tell us who’s to blame this time
He’s the only one of a Dad’s Army of pundits no longer on hand to commentate on the looming financial crisis
The Trump phenomenon
He was born rich, and has grown richer outsourcing jobs to China and Mexico. But his supporters don’t care
Lashing out in all directions
It’s not only Muslims and Mexicans he denounces... banks and big business get the biggest kicking of all
