Lead book review
Letter from the Caribbean #2
Jonathan Ray gets his head around how to create the perfect rum cocktail. I’ve lost count of the number of…
Letter from the Caribbean #1
Jonathan Ray gets a taste for rum but knows when it’s time to stop. Excitement in the Caribbean concerning Prince…
How to solve the engineering skills crisis
UK engineering is facing an insidious threat to its success – a chronic failure to get enough young people to…
Cover 12 November 2016
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Blind tasting
In my line of work, I’m lucky enough to go to a lot of wine tastings – press tastings that…
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November Wine Club I
Start your festive stockpiling right here, right now. Why wait until the week before Christmas to buy Berrys’ scrumptious own…
Post-election discussion
After the American people have voted, what next for the US and the rest of the world? Join Sir Christopher…
Christmas cartoon offer
Purchase a Spectator cartoon now to receive free framing in time for Christmas. Enter FRAME16 at checkout for your free…
Festive Wine lunch II
Owing to overwhelming demand our business editor, Martin Vander Weyer, and our drinks editor, Jonathan Ray, will be hosting a…
Private view
The Spectator invites you to a private breakfast view of Abstract Expressionism at the Royal Academy of Arts on 26…
Winemaker’s dinner
Join us for a Spectator dinner featuring the wines of Armand de Brignac, a much-talked-about champagne house. Emilien Boutillat will…
Life’s Too Short to Drink Bad Wine
We had a fine party at 67 Pall Mall last night to launch the new edition of Simon Hoggart’s Life’s…
Where there’s a will…
‘Clonakilty, God help us,’ my Irish mother would say automatically when we drove into the town, in pious remembrance of…
Listening in to the Russians
There are now enough books about Bletchley Park for it to become part of national mythology, along with the Tudors,…
Writing on the fly
Bogotá airport, immigration form in hand. Tourist, migrant, businessman? Andrés Neuman ponders the descriptors, unsure which to tick. He opts…
Tomorrow’s world
It may be difficult to believe when you think of Donald Trump, but the age of super-humans is almost upon…
The key to a hidden kingdom
It’s a modern pastime to hypothesise about what makes a good relationship. One evening not long ago in a Berlin…
Seeing red
Early on in his excellent and protean biography of a colour, Spike Bucklow quotes Goethe, writing in 1809: Every rope…
A meeting of two minds
This lovely, modest and precise book tells the story of the most productive friendship among the modernists, and the most…
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“If it is, then instead of embracing this venality Scottish artists should aim to transcend and transform.” When do you…
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James [OBE] is writing a new opera entitled “The Scottish Cringe”. It deals with his own beliefs. Got something to…
