Cambridge
Degrees in disaster
From Greece to Kenya, the worst economic ideas come from alumni of British universities
Long life
Whether or not you believe in the afterlife, death remains an impenetrable mystery. One moment a person is making jokes…
Let posh people run the arts – if it means they stop running the country
What should we do with James Blunt? This is what I have been asking myself. And I am not looking…
A hymn to ancient and modern
The Pevsner architectural guides are around halfway through their revisions — though it is like the Forth Bridge, and soon…
The age of consent
Universities are forcing undergraduates to attend sex education classes. Poor students
New ways of seeing
This exhibition examines a loosely knit community of artists and their interaction over a decade at the beginning of the…
A stranger in his own land
Who or what was Michael Oakeshott? How many of our fellow citizens — how many even of the readers of…
The music of innocence
Michael Henderson on the splendour of carols
The Spectator’s Notes
Attending the funeral of Margaret Thatcher in April, the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, was much impressed by the bit in…
