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Lake Iseo
If you’ve never heard of Lake Iseo, you’re not alone. Nestling shyly between chocolate-box Como and glamorous Garda, the smallest…
The truth about Islamic State: it's in crisis
Disillusioned Islamic State recruits are deserting the bloodthirsty terror group as it loses territory
Abide with Me
Was our first date really a boxer’s funeral? You in pitch, me in black—all in all a noirish affair, how…
Did my taunt push the new ‘Jihadi John’ to join Isis?
Did my taunt drive Abu Rumaysah to become the new ‘Jihadi John’?
Rwanda is sliding into a new tragedy. And this time we’re funding it
The ultimate ‘donor darling’ is becoming a dictatorship whose critics live in fear
What I learned from arguing about gun control with my Texan uncle
Whenever there’s another mass shooting in America, like the massacre in San Bernardino last month, I think immediately of my…
Everyone loves Ruth Davidson. No one will vote for her
Scots love their Tory leader. But they won’t vote for her
My public trans sport with a flirty stranger on the bus
My top-deck encounter with a flamboyant stranger
Lions' wool and other wonders of Cirencester
Everywhere you look in Cirencester there’s another animal: a cockerel, a hare, a sheep or a skulking lioness. I rather…
Abide with Me
Was our first date really a boxer’s funeral? You in pitch, me in black—all in all a noirish affair, how…
Cirencester
Everywhere you look in Cirencester there’s another animal: a cockerel, a hare, a sheep or a skulking lioness. I rather…
Abide with Me
Was our first date really a boxer’s funeral? You in pitch, me in black—all in all a noirish affair, how…
Sadiq Khan: I will defeat Zac. The only question is how I do it
Sadiq Khan is fighting the mayoral battle his way, but he’s still very much on the left
Zac Goldsmith: the London race will be tough for me – and the Conservative Party
Zac Goldsmith explains how he will sell himself to a city that’s now solidly Labour
Why George Galloway’s luck may finally be running out
Is Galloway’s luck finally running out?
Where’s all the joy gone?
Britain seems to be suffering from a dearth of lightheartedness
Ireland’s new spirit of gentle maturity
A gentle spirit has survived Ireland’s many changes
How to judge a charity: the five questions no one asked Kids Company
Five questions that no one dared to ask Kids Company
Banish the canapé and give me a cocktail sausage!
Let’s get rid of these ridiculous thimble-sized offerings
Voices from Benghazi: ‘We have lived through the worst five years’
In their interview in the Christmas edition of The Spectator, Fraser Nelson and James Forsyth asked the Prime Minister whether…
The glories of the Galapagos
Robin Oakley on what to see in the Galapagos – if you can
Paris: go while it’s still friendly
Julie Burchill hymns the joys of post-attack Paris
Why would the whole world’s book industry gather in booze-free Sharjah?
Who goes to the Sharjah International Book Fair? Sam Leith, for one
Stone houses and packed beaches: the pleasures of Puglia
If Italy is the elegant, over-the-knee boot plunged into the Mediterranean, then Puglia is the narrow peninsula that forms its…
Mississippi and the Delta are the high-tar, full strength Deep South
Explore Mississippi and the Delta before they’re rebranded, says James Walton
