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Mentor
for Marisa Foz del Barrio You divorced on the first day it was legal, were imprisoned three times as a…
Anglesey: la dolce vita in north Wales
We teased our friends by saying that our holiday would be on a far-away island. The Maldives, perhaps? No, Anglesey,…
Mentor
for Marisa Foz del Barrio You divorced on the first day it was legal, were imprisoned three times as a…
Sri Lanka makes me yearn to be a pre-war tea planter
James Delingpole tastes bliss in the steamy heat
The young entrepreneurs making the best of Spain’s crisis
Lara Prendergast finds delicacies amid the dilapidation in Andalucía
Cable cars, cheese and chic on the quieter side of the Alps
‘It sounds like you’re having an Ann Summers party up there,’ a male traveller called, as our group erupted into…
The wonders of Zanzibar’s Stone Town
Mark Palmer explores the Spice Island’s historic heart
The new sexual revolution
Young people today refuse to be simply gay, straight or bi
Why won’t the Met speak out on Tom Watson’s biggest claim?
Why won’t the police say that they have found no evidence whatsoever of a paedophile network linked to Parliament?
Adventures on the isle that seduced Odysseus
Gozo — Malta’s tiny island neighbour — was once rather a crucial spot in the Mediterranean. The Knights of Malta…
Centralising, illiberal, catastrophic: the SNP’s one-party state
Nicola Sturgeon’s government is an illiberal, centralising disaster. Time for a revolution
My Schubert cruise was a transport of delight
Michael Henderson is transported to raptures on a Schubert cruise
Bring back the bungalow!
We’re not building the right houses for our ageing population
Notes from a very small island: wonderful, eccentric Ascension
A toast to Ascension Island – remote, eccentric, and now vital to the space race – on its 200th birthday
What Scottish professors have to fear from Nicola Sturgeon’s power grab
What Scotland’s professors have to fear from the SNP’s latest bright idea
Dementia Love
You lie so quiet on your bed, You hear the sound and turn your head. I wait and hope, perhaps…
Dementia Love
You lie so quiet on your bed, You hear the sound and turn your head. I wait and hope, perhaps…
Adventures on the isle that seduced Odysseus
Gozo — Malta’s tiny island neighbour — was once rather a crucial spot in the Mediterranean. The Knights of Malta…
Dementia Love
You lie so quiet on your bed, You hear the sound and turn your head. I wait and hope, perhaps…
Sorry, America, but it looks like Joe Biden is your next president
I have a sinking feeling that Joe Biden might be the next president of the United States. In a brilliant…
One in ten British babies will soon be born via IVF. So why is it taboo?
Pretty soon, one in ten British babies will begin life in a Petri dish. So why is it still such a taboo subject?
Why Carly Fiorina (probably) can’t save the Republicans
Is Carly Fiorina the woman to see off Donald Trump – and Hillary Clinton?
I invented ‘virtue signalling’. Now it’s taking over the world
I invented the term ‘virtue signalling’ in The Spectator. Now it seems to be taking over the world
Look beyond ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ in The Hague
What a fate it is to be hung next to the most famous painting in a gallery. To be overlooked,…
This year, Catholic conservatives are ready for Pope Francis
Where will Francis's Synod on the Family take the Church?
