Cloning Scott
Ultimately, prime ministers can only ever be as good as the front bench talent they have selected permits them to…
Wood work
The New York-based sculptor Ursula von Rydingsvard comes from a long line of Polish and Ukrainian peasant farmers. She was…
Like a Prayer
The heat in the day-room can put you to sleep there’s a man reciting the days of the week like…
Title Stories: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
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My First Love
I made the mistake of getting in touch with him twenty years after – invited him to stay. He was…
My First Love
I made the mistake of getting in touch with him twenty years after – invited him to stay. He was…
From horses to glasses
A stint in dry dock — the ‘dry’ literally — has one advantage. There is time for lots of long…
The kick of the habit
I was waiting on an office forecourt recently puffing on an e-cigarette when a security guard came out. ‘You can’t…
Wild life
Laikipia ‘Good morning, sir!’ The warrior strides up to me on the high plains and shakes my hand. ‘May…
Wood work
The New York-based sculptor Ursula von Rydingsvard comes from a long line of Polish and Ukrainian peasant farmers. She was…
Still crazy after all these years
It says something about Kate Bush’s standing in the music world that, perhaps uniquely in the history of long-awaited live…
Still crazy after all these years
It says something about Kate Bush’s standing in the music world that, perhaps uniquely in the history of long-awaited live…
Like a Prayer
The heat in the day-room can put you to sleep there’s a man reciting the days of the week like…
Title Stories: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
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Clarkson and the case of the cowardly comedian
‘Outspoken comic Frankie Boyle has called on the BBC to sack “cultural tumour” Jeremy Clarkson.’ Can anyone tell me what’s…
Give them shelter
Our government lets its pious aid target distract it from more difficult – and important – duties
Portrait of the Week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, writing of the Islamic State in northern Iraq, said: ‘If we do not act…
From the archives
From ‘News of the Week’, The Spectator, 22 August 1914: Pope Pius X died at 20 minutes past one on Thursday…
David Cameron’s fog of war
The Prime Minister's foreign policy pronouncements are displaying no clear strategy. So far, his party doesn't mind
When did romantic love become a religion?
When people don't believe in God, it seems, one of the things they believe in is Mills and Boon
The real dilemma of artificial intelligence
The march of technology is going to make the mystery of consciousness a puzzle for everyone
Assange is a narcissist and a nut – but if America ever comes for him, we should take his side
The big Wikileaks disclosures were callous and brutal. But once you start banging hacks up for being stupid and nasty — well, where will it end?
