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Is America headed for tyranny? It is when the other side's in charge...
For the last 50 years Americans have been decrying the increase of presidential power whenever the party they oppose is…
80 sq yds per gallon
Nothing brings him to the door quite as surely as Silexine Watertight, the complete waterproofer. One Imperial Quart. Opened this…
Thomas Cromwell: more Tony Soprano than Richard Dawkins
The travel writer Colin Thubron once told me that to understand a country and its people he first asks, ‘What…
A novel that will make you want to call social services
Nina Stibbe has a way with children. Her first book, a memoir, was a deceptively wide-eyed view of a literary…
A Hello! magazine history of Venice
When Napoleon Bonaparte captured Venice in 1797, he extinguished what had been the most successful regime in the history of…
Sorbet with Rimbaud
The Bloomsbury of the title refers to the place, not the group. The group didn’t have a poet. ‘I would…
Ian Fleming: cruel? Selfish? Misogynistic? Nonsense, says his step-daughter
Between the brothers Peter and Ian Fleming, Fionn Morgan wonders who was the better writer and who the better man
Stalin's Spanish bezzie
During the Spanish civil war the single greatest atrocity perpetrated by the Republicans was known as ‘Paracuellos’. This was the…
Title Stories: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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The colonel and the commander
7 August 1964 4 Old Mitre Court, EC4 Darling Fifi, A thousand thanks for your sweet letter & for Heaven’s…
80 sq yds per gallon
Nothing brings him to the door quite as surely as Silexine Watertight, the complete waterproofer. One Imperial Quart. Opened this…
Title Stories: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
The post Title Stories: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell appeared first on The Spectator. Got something to add? Join the…
The colonel and the commander
7 August 1964 4 Old Mitre Court, EC4 Darling Fifi, A thousand thanks for your sweet letter & for Heaven’s…
80 sq yds per gallon
Nothing brings him to the door quite as surely as Silexine Watertight, the complete waterproofer. One Imperial Quart. Opened this…
Title Stories: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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Soldier, poet, lover, spy: just the man to translate Proust
Sam Leith is astonished by how much the multi-talented Charles Scott Moncrieff achieved in his short lifetime
The lost Victorian who sculpted Churchill
Ivor Roberts-Jones was in many ways the right artist at the wrong time. Had the sculptor been born a few…
The Zone of Interest is grubby, creepy – and Martin Amis's best for 25 years
‘Everybody could see that this man was not a “monster”, but it was difficult indeed not to suspect that he…
What's eating London's songbirds?
This book, with its absurdly uninformative photographs, dismal charts and smattering of charmless drawings, looks like a report. A pity,…
Chris Barber should let someone meaner tell his story
Chris Barber, still going strong with his big band, was born in 1930. He heard jazz as a schoolboy on…
Fifty years of Inspector Wexford – and a new detective on the block
Early on in The Girl Next Door, Ruth Rendell gives the reader a sharp nudge. ‘Colin Quell had very little…
Title Stories: Winnie The Pooh by A.A. Milne
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One Afternoon
In Aljezur we took a walk And paused above the river where, Among the rushes, swifts and fish, We saw…
Siberia beyond the Gulag Archipelago
Larger than Europe and the United States combined, Siberia is an enormous swathe of Russia, spanning seven time zones and…
Nation-builders on a sticky wicket: the farce and heroism of Pakistani cricket
There is farce in Peter Oborne’s history of cricket in Pakistan. An impossible umpire is abducted by drunken English tourists…
