Jeremy clarke
My dinner date with the detective
Provence ‘What do you mean?’ I wanted to ask the man who told me last autumn it was time to…
The ‘Clooney effect’ hasn’t touched my corner of Provence
Provence My eldest daughter’s husband is from Como. In the early 2000s George Clooney caused a stir in the town…
Letters: You can grow to hate Wagner
Disappearing England Sir: Rod Liddle’s reference to Labour’s intention to build 1.5 million new houses (‘The great bee-smuggling scandal’, 13…
My nights with the eagle owls
Provence Summer has arrived. The evenings are warm enough to sit out on the balcony terrace and watch the lights…
My dreams of Jeremy Clarke
The other week my eldest daughter and I were staying with friends in Richmond for the launch of Jeremy’s third…
Who will my wife marry next?
Since I had a brush with death a couple of years ago, I have often wondered who my far younger…
Letters: Biden is alienating Britain
Joe Shmoe Sir: Your piece ‘Not so special’ (Leading article, 8 July) was right. Joe Biden doesn’t like us and…
Life with Low Life: my happy years with Jeremy Clarke
Jeremy Clarke’s wife on their happy years together
Letters: Jeremy Clarke was an example to us all
Goodbye, Jeremy Each week I opened The Spectator at Low Life in part to read that brilliant column and, more…
The reactionary bohemian: Jeremy Clarke was one of a kind
Modestly brilliant, dedicatedly hedonistic — Jeremy Clarke was a complete one-off
Goodbye, my dear Low Life colleague
He bore his death sentence more gracefully than most heroes I’ve read about. As the end approached, his columns showed…
High life
New York If only my wordsmith friend Jeremy Clarke had been with me. What fun he’d have had with…
It’ll be me vs Jean-Claude Juncker at the Judo World Championships
Gstaad Jeremy Clarke has wiped me out again, for a change. His accounts of the high jinks on board the…
Before cruises there were crossings – the good old days!
On board MS Queen Victoria They remain engraved on my brain, like something out of a Greek tragedy, so…
Fraser Nelson’s Diary: Spotting the miscreants at Jeremy Clarke’s drunkenness-themed book launch
‘Hello. I’m lesbian threesome,’ the young lady tells Taki. ‘And I’m Mongolian rampage,’ says the young man beside her. We’re…
Me, Jeremy Clarke and a bottle of absinthe
Last Wednesday, 24 June, Pugs held a luncheon in honour of our first member to depart for the Elysian Fields,…
American justice is behaving as the world’s CCTV system – and the fall of Blatter doesn’t make that right
‘In matters of criminal justice,’ said NatWest Three defendant David Bermingham after a London court extradited him and his co-defendants…
Outstrip Jeremy Clarke’s worst excesses and win an invitation to his Low life book launch
On 26 June there is a party at the Spectator office at 22 Old Queen Street to launch a paperback…
Low life’s Limpopo legend
Not everything is forgotten in the new Johannesburg, finds Lara Prendergast
I felt so awful I almost prayed that we would crash
This is about life up high. Two weeks ago The Spectator had that rapscallion and mischief-maker Peter McKay writing about…
Letters: Lord Lawson is not banned from the BBC, and Wales is wonderful
No ban on Lawson Sir: You write that the BBC ‘has effectively banned’ Lord Lawson from items on climate change…
Spectator letters: America as a genetic experiment, and a gypsy reply to Rod Liddle
An independent policy Sir: James Curran’s review of my book Dangerous Allies (‘Radical nationalist’, 17 May) showed a significant and…
Jeremy Clarke: The day I walked into a postcard
This time last year the postman delivered a picture postcard depicting a village square in Provence. The photograph on the…
