hunting
The hunting ban could be gone soon – but the hypocrisy will linger on
With luck, the cruel, hypocritical ban could be gone by winter
Charles Moore’s Notes: Who benefits from Prince Charles shaking Gerry Adams’s hand?
Who benefits from Prince Charles’s handshake with Gerry Adams? Not the victims of IRA violence, including the 18 soldiers who…
Welcome to Miliband country: how Labour would wreck rural life
A ‘progressive alliance’ would be a profound threat to rural life
It really must be a mid-life crisis. I’ve fallen in love with a pony
Because I’m reckless, stupid and irresponsible, I normally get landed with the biggest, most obstreperous hunters. But the other weekend…
Ten years after the ban, why are there still hunt saboteurs?
Ten years after the ban, why are there still hunt saboteurs?
The sheer joy of hunting
This time three years ago, I hadn’t jumped a single thing for almost ten years. This season, I am happily…
Do your patriotic duty and shoot wild boar
It’s 15 years since I first wrote an article about the threat to the nation of the wild boar; but…
Charles Moore's notes: A matched pair of popes, and a patronising judge
Pope Francis is favourably compared to Pope Benedict in the media. I hope it is not being slavishly papist to…
My new affair is thrilling, expensive — and might just break my neck
I have fallen in love with an unsuitable male. My wife isn’t totally happy about this relationship because she recognises…
Stop "Stoptober"! It's another insidious attack on liberty and free will
Say what you like about the French Revolutionaries but at least they had a poetic imagination. When they wanted a…
Spectator letters: PPE, Biblical bishops and Pamela Hansford Johnson
Degrees of ability Sir: Nick Cohen has written an amusing piece on PPE (‘Crash course’, 27 September), marred by lazy journalism.…
It's sheer madness for Cameron to resurrect the hunting issue
My house in south Northamptonshire looks out over parkland on which Henry VIII used to hunt deer with Anne Boleyn.…
Why we should let Faroe islanders hunt whales
Marine charities should stop obsessing about a few Faroe islanders and go after the real villains
David Cameron has lost the countryside
The shires feel deeply abandoned by Cameron and the Conservatives
Charles Moore: Nelson has lost the battle to a fat, stupid blue cockerel
I do not know whether the Greek gypsy couple accused of abducting a girl called Maria are guilty, but I…
Charles Moore: Why not marry a dog?
MPs are incomparable. This may seem an odd thing to say in the current climate of opinion, but I mean…
