Martian moves
Every August when London dims, Edinburgh calls, promising nothing less than ‘the greats of the arts’ at the International Festival.…
Diary
We’re off to see Tony Abbott launch When We Were Young and Foolish, Greg Sheridan’s new book. How a pair…
The BBC’s music man
To Radio 2 to meet Bob Shennan, controller of the BBC’s most popular radio station (the station attracts one third…
The BBC’s music man
To Radio 2 to meet Bob Shennan, controller of the BBC’s most popular radio station (the station attracts one third…
Gnats
after Robert Hooke, Micrographia (1665) Their world is a glass of rainwater. They move up and down through the clearness,…
Bridge
I hope Zia Mahmood will forgive me. It’s not often I come across a contract that he has failed to…
Protecting Leftist dogma
It’s hard to see what Dyson Heydon, Mark Latham and anal sex have in common, yet these are the three…
Sorry, but I can’t join in the China panic
MS Queen Victoria, 38°N 19°E I’ll do my best, but I’ve got to be honest: being surrounded by shining Ionian…
If On the Road’s great, what else have I missed?
This week’s column is dedicated to all those of you who have never read Catcher in the Rye and who,…
The contagious madness of the new PC
It’s becoming pretty clear, as the year rolls on, that some of our brightest youngsters have gone round the bend.…
Will he was
In 2011, the Daily Mail carried a long story about how the Queen’s cousin Prince William of Gloucester, who died…
Cameron’s new army of Tory loyalists
Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/thereturnofassisteddying/media.mp3 Time was when the Conservatives believed that a small majority — which puts a government at the mercy…
I’m utterly sickened by this story of a man trying to talk to a woman on a train
What can we as a society do about the relentless harassment of women by terrifying men? Menacing men, threatening men,…
Get fracking
Over the past week, the government has finally made a decisive move to kickstart a fracking industry in Britain. Licences…
Portrait of the week
Home Andrew Burnham described calls from Yvette Cooper, a rival candidate for the Labour leadership, for him to withdraw from…
Field studies
From ‘Education and the War’, The Spectator, 21 August 1915: War is a time in which a shortage of labourers can…
Labour MPs’ next choice: which leadership coup to back
If Jeremy Corbyn wins, expect much pondering of Tony Benn’s last question: ‘How do I get rid of you?’
The Spectator’s notes
The question of looks; Corbyn’s position on the EU; Mr Chips and Pearl Harbor; what this year’s A-level results tell us
The welcome return of the valedictory dispatch
Tom Fletcher’s love letter to Lebanon offers hope for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s lost literary form
Bisexuality is now everywhere (and nowhere)
Almost half of young people now identify as neither gay nor straight, although very few use the term ‘bisexual’. I think this is what progress looks like
Come on, prime minister: a peerage for our peerless folding bike designer
Andrew Ritchie is overdue a place in the Lords. Plus: executive pay and graduate jobs
The dangerous food fad
The trendy nutritional advice that's more likely to make you ill than healthy
Diary
Plus: finding the spirit of Scotland in a small northern Spanish city