Keith Joseph

In with the new: Julie Christie, Mary Quant, Up the Junction – the decade that changed Britain

19 September 2026 9:00 am

The 18 months covered in the latest volume of David Kynaston’s magnum opus contain some of the defining moments of the whole postwar period

Impeccable history of the free market – and from the BBC too

12 April 2025 9:00 am

The launch of Radio 4’s Invisible Hands series has been both blessed and cursed by timing. It tells the story…

Six politicians who shaped modern Britain

31 August 2024 9:00 am

The members of Vernon Bogdanor’s select gathering may not always have succeeded in their aims, but by sticking their heads above the parapet they made the political weather

The Spectator’s notes

7 November 2015 9:00 am

It is good to learn that the current management of the V&A want to reverse their predecessors’ lack of interest…

Behind the scenes at the Brighton bombing

24 October 2015 9:00 am

Sadly, I can’t see it catching on, but one of the notable things about Jonathan Lee’s new novel is that…

Charles Moore’s Notes: Diane the Posh Goddess and Osborne’s mania

17 October 2015 8:00 am

When I arrived at Cambridge in 1975, a nervous freshman, I remember walking with a friend past Newnham and being…

The Spectator’s notes

12 September 2015 9:00 am

Presumably Britain has some sort of policy on immigration, asylum and refugees, but instead of struggling to understand it, you…