Freddy Gray

Freddy Gray is deputy editor of The Spectator. He was formerly literary editor of The American Conservative.

Terminal news for bookies

20 February 2014 3:00 pm

Hands up: who knows what a FOBT is? It stands for fixed odds betting terminal. No? Well, you should, because…

Valentine’s Day

8 February 2014 9:00 am

One of the many things I love about my wife is that she doesn’t make me do anything for Valentine’s…

The Frogs of war

7 December 2013 9:00 am

How France became the neocons’ favourite nation

How we beat the Boche — at sidecar racing

9 November 2013 9:00 am

There’s courage, there’s fearlessness, and then there’s the sort of sublime audacity you need to do something like sidecar racing.…

Double trouble

7 November 2013 3:00 pm

There’s courage, there’s fearlessness, and then there’s the sort of sublime audacity you need to do something like sidecar racing.…

Double trouble

7 November 2013 3:00 pm

There’s courage, there’s fearlessness, and then there’s the sort of sublime audacity you need to do something like sidecar racing.…

The Speculator: Why I get so excited at goalless football matches

2 November 2013 9:00 am

A successful gambler once told me: ‘Never bet on football, never bet on multipliers, and never ever bet on football…

The thrill of the bore draw

31 October 2013 3:00 pm

A successful gambler once told me: ‘Never bet on football, never bet on multipliers, and never ever bet on football…

The thrill of the bore draw

31 October 2013 3:00 pm

A successful gambler once told me: ‘Never bet on football, never bet on multipliers, and never ever bet on football…

The Speculator: Put a tenner on Osborne as next Tory leader

5 October 2013 9:00 am

When you hear the words ‘economic recovery’, do you think: ‘Great! Britain is on the mend’? Or ‘Damn! I should…

Investment: Fluttering voters

3 October 2013 1:00 pm

When you hear the words ‘economic recovery’, do you think: ‘Great! Britain is on the mend’? Or ‘Damn! I should…

Investment: Fluttering voters

3 October 2013 1:00 pm

When you hear the words ‘economic recovery’, do you think: ‘Great! Britain is on the mend’? Or ‘Damn! I should…

Notes on…Rome

31 August 2013 9:00 am

Leave Florence and Sienna to the aesthetes. Let the in-crowd do Naples and Palermo. For the amateur Italophile, Rome is…