Alexander Chancellor
High life
New York Here we go again, the annual holiest of holies is upon us, although to this oldie last Christmas…
High Life
As Cole Porter might have said, only second-rate people go on and on about their inner lives. Self-analysis, according to…
Booze, cigarettes and Auberon Waugh: Remembering The Spectator’s 1970s revival
‘The Spectator, having quite recently been a very bad magazine, is at present a very good one.’ Those gratifying words…
How I’d sex down the weather forecast
I have, for utterly explicable reasons, not been asked to guest-edit Radio 4’s Today this Christmas. Had I, though, I would…
High life
I was appalled. She had asked Lord John Somerset to ask me to join her, and I rose rather unsteadily…
Last words
This, my 479th, is to be my last contribution as a regular columnist to The Spectator. I have written here…
The unlikely oilman
Former Spectator owner Algy Cluff on Margaret Thatcher, Robert Mugabe and Brexit
Letters
The real road menace Sir: I write in anger after reading Mark Mason’s malicious attack on mobility scooters (‘Hell on…
Diary
Until recently I used to claim that I had been literary editor of The Spectator for over 25 years; now…
The Spectator’s Notes
On Friday night, I went to Althorp, childhood home of Diana, Princess of Wales, to speak at its literary festival.…
Letters
We need religion Sir: Roger Scruton (‘Sacred hunger’, 31 May) describes a reason, dare I say a ‘purpose’, for religion in…
Letters
An independent policy Sir: James Curran’s review of my book Dangerous Allies (‘Radical nationalist’, 17 May) showed a significant and…
The Spectator’s Notes
Thirty years ago this Saturday, I became editor of this magazine. In the same month, the miners’ strike began, Anthony…
