Scotland
The Spectator’s Notes
When I interviewed Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, the former president of France, for my biography of Margaret Thatcher, I asked him…
The Spectator’s Notes
Who owns Scotland? The people who most commonly ask this question believe that the land has been wrested from ordinary…
Fast train to friendship
I had five decades of delight with the Everly Brothers – and it all began on the Flying Scotsman
Let no mean no
Cameron is betraying Scotland’s Unionists
Union man
Can George Galloway keep Scotland in Britain?
Investment: Bargains for bravehearts
An investor’s guide to the Scottish referendum
The romance of fall
The fall: one of the few instances where American English is superior to English English. ‘Autumn’ has a comfortable charm,…
House prices are going up again. I fear this is not going to end well
It’s senseless to ask how things are going to end, because things as a general rule don’t. They rumble on,…
