Scotland
The Spectator’s Notes
Last week, David Cameron said that we have ‘seven months to save the most extraordinary country in history’. He meant…
Diary
As any author will tell you, literary festivals differ widely. If you are invited to Willy Dalrymple’s Jaipur Festival, with…
Warning: ‘no’ won’t be Scotland’s final answer
From a kind of torpor about this year’s Scottish referendum, Lord Lang of Monkton has roused me. You may remember…
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,…
