Argentina
Voices of exile
During the military dictatorships of the 1970s, exile for many Latin American writers was not so much a state of…
Portrait of the week
Home The Indian company Tata decided to sell its entire steel business in Britain, putting more than 15,000 jobs in…
Dancing like a demon
‘Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough,’ said Gustave Flaubert. He might have been talking about this…
Sorry, America, but it looks like Joe Biden is your next president
I have a sinking feeling that Joe Biden might be the next president of the United States. In a brilliant…
Tree devotion
I have never written much about the one-acre shaw of native trees I planted in 1994, even though it is…
South America’s silent apartheid
In The Spectator of 21 March a column by Toby Young caught my eye. Discussing the pros and cons of…
Portrait of the week
Home Philip Hammond, the Foreign Secretary, said that ‘a huge burden of responsibility’ lay with those who acted as apologists…
That’ll teach you to attempt a joke, Sean
What a pleasure it is to see the Hollywood actor Sean Penn neck deep in PC ordure. The rodentine thespian…
Six weeks after numberplategate, and Argentina’s still going on about it
Perhaps it’s a glaring and personal flaw in my observational skills, but if somebody tried to insult me via a…
Monster in our midst
Wakolda is not a sunny film for a sunny day, just so you’re aware, but as there is so little…
