Rogues gallery
There seem to be an awful lot of rogues out there. When it became clear that corruption allegations against former…
Davos Diary
‘Shaping a better world’, the theme for this year’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, was nothing if not…
Australian Notes
A footnote to the Dolce Affair in which the literary-political magazine Overland has banned the work of the songwriter and…
Our right-wing bogeyman
Step forward Scott Morrison for working up your ideological foes into a collective state of hysteria
Brown study
What an inspired choice for Governor-General! General Cosgrove will acquit himself well and be a distinguished occupant of that high…
Leave plenty to the imagination
Two historical exhibitions on Australia and the US struggle to capture the spirit of the two nations
On the contrary
I’ve lost a lot of friends this week. News travels fast and the idea of someone writing a weekly column…
Letters
Too right wing Sir: I have been a subscriber to The Spectator since the early Eighties. Like many readers I…
All the fun of the fair
The Works on Paper annual fair runs from 6 to 9 February at the Science Museum. Its name is a…
Jaipur Notebook
In 2004, ten days after I moved my family to a new life in India, I gave a reading at…
Ornithology
‘The Wood Thrush can sing a duet by itself, using Two separate voices,’ as opposed To the whip-bird, one cry,…
Tulips
My love arrived with tulips, ‘ten for a fiver’, picked up from the supermarket at the end of the street.…
Tulips
My love arrived with tulips, ‘ten for a fiver’, picked up from the supermarket at the end of the street.…
Burns Night bottles
Give us this day our daily bread: those are also words of great culinary significance. Even if the ‘bread’ takes…
24 hours in a Qatari jail cell
This column nearly didn’t appear. Another 24 hours and I would have trumped the late Jeffrey Bernard with the single…
All the fun of the fair
The Works on Paper annual fair runs from 6 to 9 February at the Science Museum. Its name is a…
Codes of conduct
Not long ago the great conductors of classical music were general practitioners. They expected to give satisfactory interpretations of music…
Codes of conduct
Not long ago the great conductors of classical music were general practitioners. They expected to give satisfactory interpretations of music…
Jaipur Notebook
In 2004, ten days after I moved my family to a new life in India, I gave a reading at…
