Why Ukip is a party of extremists
Last Saturday I wrote for my newspaper a column whose drift was that it was time for the sane majority…
Another side of Le Corbusier
On the outskirts of La Chaux-de-Fonds, an industrial town in the Swiss Jura, stands one of the most beautiful houses…
Across the Aisle
Budget week has its set pieces, traditions and rhythms. It’s a special week which lets both sides of politics lay…
Across the Aisle
Budget week has its set pieces, traditions and rhythms. It’s a special week which lets both sides of politics lay…
One-sided story
Political Animal: The Making of Tony Abbott By David Marr Black Inc, $19.95, pp 208 ISBN 978186355980 If there is…
All our Yesterdays
Too many Beatles books? In my house there’s always room for one more, and this week’s addition is All Together…
Better to be the founder of a cool social network than the billion-dollar buyer
I haven’t used Yahoo as a general search engine since an American friend introduced me to the miracle that was…
Cataclysm
It came at last, the letting-go, Up over the hill and down our street — The end of time had,…
Cataclysm
It came at last, the letting-go, Up over the hill and down our street — The end of time had,…
The delights of decadence
Although I promise to move on to drink, forgive me for beginning with a less interesting but even more complex…
All our Yesterdays
Too many Beatles books? In my house there’s always room for one more, and this week’s addition is All Together…
Here’s why Tories shouldn’t do smear campaigns
‘Pick the target, freeze it, personalise it and polarise it.’ This is the best-known of Saul Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals,…
Better to be the founder of a cool social network than the billion-dollar buyer
I haven’t used Yahoo as a general search engine since an American friend introduced me to the miracle that was…
Losing firepower
Man, I love the Flaming Lips. Psychedelic rock sublimity. They movingly address the deepest human concerns without a whiff of…
Losing firepower
Man, I love the Flaming Lips. Psychedelic rock sublimity. They movingly address the deepest human concerns without a whiff of…
The Stamp of quality
If ever a director’s decision to cast an actor based solely on looks could be excused, it would be Pier…
Dream machine
In 1951, Arthur Drexler, an influential curator at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, organised an exhibition called 8 Automobiles.…
Steak, chips and misogyny
STK is a steakhouse at the bottom of the ME Hotel on the Aldwych. (This is a real name for…
Wild life
A leopard has been on the rampage night after night. We know her because she often lurks in the woods…
The Stamp of quality
If ever a director’s decision to cast an actor based solely on looks could be excused, it would be Pier…
The end of innocence
As far as memory serves, in my 46 years of being both in and at the ballet I have encountered…
Dream machine
In 1951, Arthur Drexler, an influential curator at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, organised an exhibition called 8 Automobiles.…
The wheat and the chaff of online comments
What’s to be done about the online comments sections in daily newspapers? These (for those estimable Spectator readers who have…
Terra nullius
For many people these days, exploration means peeking into some of the more unusual corners of the internet. This massive…
Across the aisle
These days, book launches, like election campaign launches, come well after a new book is actually released to the public.…
