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The 2014 winner of The Spectator’s award for unconventional travel writing
Gardens for all seasons
Winter garden visiting is a solitary pastime, lending itself to the misanthrope, and is highly recommended. When it’s so cold…
Time to Go
Feeling my age, too soon too tired, Whatever gifts I had no more required, I am a hireling called in…
Time to Go
Feeling my age, too soon too tired, Whatever gifts I had no more required, I am a hireling called in…
Watch out Eurocrats, here come the Pirates!
The Eurocrats are crazy to dismiss all the new, diverse Eurosceptic parties as ‘far right’
Unpacking in Bangkok
And then a dozen Muddy miraculous hares Sprang out of the suitcase, Bounding round and round The hotel suite, Drumming…
Why doesn't Russia have a Yad Vashem for the gulag?
Why is there no gulag museum to compare with Yad Vashem?
A dying estate agent helped me see the light
A dying estate agent helped me to see the light
Stand up for the real meaning of freedom
We need conservatism now more than ever
The great recycling myth
There is absolutely no need for us to separate our rubbish by hand
It's a stupid lie to say we're all bisexual
It’s a stupid lie to say that we’re all attracted to both men and women
A cook's tour of China without the crispy caterpillars
A cook’s tour without the crispy caterpillars, by Sybil Kapoor
High tea in Sri Lanka's Hill Country
Alex Massie relaxes amid lush lawns and eccentricity
Havana - a party girl of a city
It’s not just the mojitos that make your head spin in Havana, writes Jonathan Ray
Islands fit for Ingmar Bergman
Kate Eshelby is charmed by the remote Swedish islands where Ingmar Bergman made his home
The pleasures of the Dordogne
Call me a trencherman or worse, but I tend to think of the Dordogne as a giant restaurant-cum-farm shop, set…
Unpacking in Bangkok
And then a dozen Muddy miraculous hares Sprang out of the suitcase, Bounding round and round The hotel suite, Drumming…
Unpacking in Bangkok
And then a dozen Muddy miraculous hares Sprang out of the suitcase, Bounding round and round The hotel suite, Drumming…
Garry Kasparov: How Putin's poker game makes fools of the West
Putin is not the only dictator willing to exploit weak western leadership
David Cameron on tax, coalition, ‘green crap’ and Team Nigella
He’d like to present you with single-party government and lower tax rates, among other things
Andrew Marr's notebook: Rescued by Jonathan Ross
We live by simple stories. X has a stroke. X recovers; or doesn’t. But we live inside more complicated stories.…
Melvyn Bragg's notebook: I found hell on Regent Street
John Lloyd, producer of Blackadder, Spitting Image, QI etc, has boldly picked up where he left off at Cambridge more…
Spectator survey: What would you tell your 14-year-old self?
A Spectator Christmas survey
P.D. James: Who killed the golden age of crime?
The pleasures of ‘Golden Age’ detective fiction – and why it can no longer be written
Friends, soulmates, rivals: the double life of Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud
As friends, artistic soulmates and rivals, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud were the Turner and Constable of the 20th century
