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The school holidays in the final furlong and the next new phase and term in clear sight. This is when…
Bolivia
for Lucy Dallas Because they wanted to go home and some bit part, a rat in deep cover, raised the…
Bolivia
for Lucy Dallas Because they wanted to go home and some bit part, a rat in deep cover, raised the…
Wits on parade
We were discussing wit. I uttered a self-evident truth which proved gratifyingly controversial. Of all the people I encounter, the…
From Umbrella Man to the Coughing Major
Are you sitting comfortably and wearing your tinfoil hat? If so, open YouTube and watch a full-screen version of the…
Wild life
Juba I discovered a 1954 Morris Minor parked outside the Catholic mission station in Mopoi, South Sudan. The car had…
Down and out
The prodigious streetdancer Tommy Franzén pops up everywhere from family-friendly hip-hop shows by ZooNation, Boy Blue and Bounce to serious…
Dudamel’s dilemma
On 8 March 2013, Gustavo Dudamel stood by the coffin of the Marxist autocrat Hugo Chavez and conducted the Simon…
Dudamel’s dilemma
On 8 March 2013, Gustavo Dudamel stood by the coffin of the Marxist autocrat Hugo Chavez and conducted the Simon…
Results
The school holidays in the final furlong and the next new phase and term in clear sight. This is when…
A life-changing lunch with an old acquaintance
God it’s nauseating when an exact university contemporary of yours turns out to have become a hugely successful investor with…
Where is the Tories’ secret weapon?
‘You did this,’ David Cameron repeatedly declared to Tory donors as he reeled off a list of the government’s achievements…
Why I may bail out the Guardian
One of the highlights of my week comes on a Saturday morning, when I make myself a cup of fair-trade…
Oxford diary
Oxford students being the custodians of Western civilisation, I expect a big rollup of young tweed eager for a dose…
Australian notes
Quos deus vult perdere, prius dementat – with apologies to Boswell. (‘Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.’)…
School’s not out
Fifty new free schools prove that Nicky Morgan is ready to continue what Michael Gove began
Portrait of the week
Home MPs voted by 382 to 128 to make Britain the only country to allow genetic modification of embryos to…
From the archives
From ‘News of the Week’, The Spectator, 6 February 1915: Germany proclaims a paper blockade of all the British coast,…
How Labour lost Scotland (and could lose the Union)
The referendum campaign brought a moment of unprecedented cross-party co-operation. Those days are long gone
They want a gender-neutral pronoun? What’s wrong with them?
They want a gender-neutral pronoun? What the hell’s wrong with them?
The NHS needs the politics of envy
We need a populist argument — one that will appeal to the masses — for charging some people for access
