Cambridge

Long life

31 January 2015 9:00 am

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

24 January 2015 9:00 am

What should we do with James Blunt? This is what I have been asking myself. And I am not looking…

From ‘The Temptation of Eve’: detail of glass from Ely Cathedral designed by Pugin, 1858

A hymn to ancient and modern

13 December 2014 9:00 am

The Pevsner architectural guides are around halfway through their revisions — though it is like the Forth Bridge, and soon…

The age of consent

27 September 2014 9:00 am

Universities are forcing undergraduates to attend sex education classes. Poor students

‘Herring Fisher’s Goodbye’, 1928, by Christopher Wood

New ways of seeing

3 May 2014 9:00 am

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

12 April 2014 9:00 am

Who or what was Michael Oakeshott? How many of our fellow citizens — how many even of the readers of…

The music of innocence

14 December 2013 9:00 am

Michael Henderson on the splendour of carols

The Spectator’s Notes

20 July 2013 9:00 am

Attending the funeral of Margaret Thatcher in April, the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, was much impressed by the bit in…