Women
Lifting the veil
Finally I realise why women are so pissed off. It all goes back to the first codified laws — circa…
Students against abortion
Young people are becoming more pro-life
High life
Last Wednesday, 24 June, Pugs held a luncheon in honour of our first member to depart for the Elysian Fields,…
My time of the month
I have spent the last few days posing with a tampon as part of an international campaign to demystify the…
Long life
In 1993, when I was living in Manhattan working for the New Yorker magazine, I was chosen as ‘distinguished visitor’…
High life
I had a short chat with BBC radio concerning the actor Jack Nicholson, whom I knew slightly during the Seventies…
High life
Here is my Christmas gift to Spectator readers, one that applies mostly to unmarried males, but is also available to…
Selfie obsession
People can’t seem to stop taking pictures of themselves – and their private parts. It’s the ultimate expression of our increasingly puerile and narcissistic society
Disney matter
The Disney Café is a gaudy hell on the fourth floor of Harrods, Knightsbridge. It is adjacent to the Harrods…
I’m the moody one in this marriage
Women spend ten days a year in a grumpy mood, according to the Daily Mail. The top triggers include being…
A slap in the Facebook
My female friends’ social media habits are too bitchy even for me
Anglican disunion
To escape women bishops, Church of England conservatives are preparing a communion of their own
Three sisterhoods
The Honourable Society of Odd Bottles has been mentioned in this column before. I can report that the membership is…
Girl talk
I applaud Frank – now Kellie – Maloney. But I still think being a woman means growing up as one
The Spectator’s Notes
This must be the worst reshuffle since Mrs Thatcher demoted Geoffrey Howe in 1989. Unlike that one, its errors are…
The reassuring triumph of Big Mother
Feminism in modern Britain is not for the faint-hearted. Only the smartest, mouthiest girls on the social media scene dare…
The Navigators
The 2014 winner of The Spectator’s award for unconventional travel writing
Feminists, you are betraying yourselves
I’ve been racking my brains to think what I might have in common with Kim Jong Un and Piers Morgan.…
The sad story of Oprah, the handbag and the shop assistant
Listen, this story is moving so quickly stuff will almost certainly have happened in between me writing it and you…
