Adam and Eve Take an Allotment
The figure in the shadows stared at Eve And shook the beans inside the bag. ‘Believe Me, crops of serpentini…
Impressionist Paris
The spectre of the Charlie Hebdo killings still hangs over Paris. Outside the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, opposite the…
Adam and Eve Take an Allotment
The figure in the shadows stared at Eve And shook the beans inside the bag. ‘Believe Me, crops of serpentini…
Bright blues
The boat race for the brain, as it has become known, took place at the Royal Automobile Club, Pall Mall,…
From puppy to Pinot
Meeting to taste wine, we started by talking about dogs. Roy Hattersley is good on the subject, which ought to…
Is that Green or red?
Few people know this, but hidden within the FedEx logo, between the E and the x, there is a small…
Greeks vs Greens
The Green party’s manifesto appears to make saving the planet only a small element in its otherwise painfully unoriginal agenda.…
Barometer
Deadly to dogs An Irish setter was allegedly poisoned at Crufts, using beef containing slug pellets. Some other substances with which dog-show rivals…
I don’t want anyone telling me how to raise my monsters
I was on the phone to Girl, thinking of something interesting to tell her. ‘Oh yeah,’ I said. ‘And this…
Exit, pursued by a bear
Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/the-death-of-childhood/media.mp3 In the 1984 US presidential election, Ronald Reagan came up with an effective way of embarrassing his rival…
It’s dark days for dogs and their owners
So who is poisoning all the doggies, then? I assumed, when the first horrible reports came through from Crufts, that…
Diary
After I fell off my chair again, it was time to get ready for the launch of the Intergenerational Report…
Australian notes
In taking action for defamation Treasurer Joe Hockey is breaking a great Parliamentary convention, according to Mark Latham. He was…
Portrait of the week
Home The man seen in several Islamic State videos of hostages being beheaded, nicknamed Jihadi John by the British press,…
Diary
Plus: The library crowd, Oscarphobia, and why fathers with added parental leave are getting off easy
Too short for the trenches?
From ‘The “Willing” Badge’, The Spectator, 6 March 1915: A final ground for giving badges to those who have offered themselves…
Yes, skunk has changed me. But so have Zoran Mušic’s drawings
How strong experiences imprint themselves on our minds and alter the way we see things
Did Cameron ever really want to be nice?
Perhaps it’s a cynical and tortured switcheroo, in the face of a feared Ukip surge. Only it doesn’t feel that tortured, does it?
Advice to StanChart’s new chief: reputation is even tougher to manage than financial risk
Plus: Why the other bank chiefs should be more careful about claiming their bonuses, and the fate of Peter Hambro’s gold mines
Up at the Villa
Figs, lemons, almonds and holidaymakers, the fronds of palms and those fierce plants whose sharp extrusions in place of leaves,…
Islam’s squeezed middle
Unless we’re to have a religious underclass, we need activist groups like this one
