David Starkey
As a gay Jewish man I did not expect to be spat at in a west London street
There are many places where a gay Jewish couple wearing yarmulkes wouldn’t feel comfortable walking down the street. I didn’t…
What Uber rides taught me about immigration
It was blessedly cool inside the Romanesque nave, its massive arches resisting the heat as they had done everything else…
In defence of conceptual art
At the tail end of last year, an artist called Peter Goodfellow mounted an exhibition of paintings titled Treason of…
On migration, my adversary Simon Schama doesn’t even have an argument
Sooner or later, in this trade, one runs out of television historians to antagonise. I am doggedly working my way…
Spectator letters: Cutting the Lords, and a defence of Edwin Lutyens
Trimming the ermine Sir: I am a new boy in the House of Lords compared with Viscount Astor — though…
History is the art of making things up. Why pretend otherwise?
In a recent interview, the celebrity historian and Tudor expert David Starkey described Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall as a ‘deliberate…
