Life

High life

4 June 2015 1:00 pm

The last week in Gotham was exceptional fun. I saw a Broadway play, Finding Neverland, compliments of the producer, my…

Long life

4 June 2015 1:00 pm

I wrote last week about a swarm of bees that had attached itself to a wall of my house, as…

Long life

4 June 2015 1:00 pm

I wrote last week about a swarm of bees that had attached itself to a wall of my house, as…

Low life

4 June 2015 1:00 pm

The entries are crawling in on their hands and knees for the ‘drunkest I’ve ever been’ competition to win a…

Low life

4 June 2015 1:00 pm

The entries are crawling in on their hands and knees for the ‘drunkest I’ve ever been’ competition to win a…

Brain fade

4 June 2015 1:00 pm

‘Aa-aah,’ groaned my husband, ‘we fade to grey.’ He had never been much of a Young Romantic, even when Visage…

Real life

4 June 2015 1:00 pm

Foolishly, I have this wild notion that one day, if the stars align in my favour, I might be able…

Are the cultural Marxists in retreat, or lying low?

4 June 2015 1:00 pm

In his Memoirs, Kingsley Amis includes a story about meeting Roald Dahl at a party in the 1970s. Dahl advises…

Are the cultural Marxists in retreat, or lying low?

4 June 2015 1:00 pm

In his Memoirs, Kingsley Amis includes a story about meeting Roald Dahl at a party in the 1970s. Dahl advises…

In praise of the ‘Don’t know’ voter

4 June 2015 1:00 pm

I am scraping the edges of my memory here, but I am fairly sure that opinion polls in my childhood…

Taki, the greatest literary critic of our time, picks Fitzgerald’s greatest novel

30 May 2015 9:00 am

An operation on my hand after a karate injury has had me reading more than usual. I even attempted Don…

Outstrip Jeremy Clarke’s worst excesses and win an invitation to his Low life book launch

30 May 2015 9:00 am

On 26 June there is a party at the Spectator office at 22 Old Queen Street to launch a paperback…

In the future we will all speak a new language called Predictive Text

30 May 2015 9:00 am

Andy the tech guy looked delighted when I told him I had done the stupidest thing ever. He is one…

Inside, pursued by a swarm of bees

30 May 2015 9:00 am

From reading the newspapers you might get the impression that honeybees were on the way to extinction. In Europe, it…

Why jockeys prefer riding on the Flat

30 May 2015 9:00 am

Getting to Goodwood last Saturday was an achievement in itself. On the Bank Holiday weekend I calculated a cross-country route…

Bridge

30 May 2015 9:00 am

If you live in or around London you can play a pairs duplicate every night (or day) of the week…

Shuffleduck

30 May 2015 9:00 am

There are some odd opening moves in chess, such as 1 a3 and 1 g4. The former was used by…

No. 364

30 May 2015 9:00 am

Black to play. This is from Westman-Walther, Havana 1966. Black has the possibility of a discovered check against the white…

Occasional verse

30 May 2015 9:00 am

In Competition No. 2899 you were invited to write a poem commemorating the birth of Princess Charlotte of Cambridge. The…

2213: Surprising

30 May 2015 9:00 am

A phrase, formed by four unclued lights, incorporates a definition of the other unclued lights and an indication of the…

To 2210: Game Theory

30 May 2015 9:00 am

The future is not for parties ‘playing politics’ (16 29 1A 15) is a quotation by Woodrow Wilson. 1A provides…

Nicola Sturgeon protests too much about Alistair Carmichael

30 May 2015 9:00 am

I couldn’t believe it when Nicola Sturgeon called for the resignation of Alistair Carmichael, the former Scottish Secretary, over his…

Battle for Britain

30 May 2015 9:00 am

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Thrills and chivalry at Lord’s

30 May 2015 9:00 am

If heaven is a place on earth, as Belinda Carlisle so wisely observed, then surely that place has to be…

Dear Mary: What to do when a dinner guest won’t turn and chat

30 May 2015 9:00 am

Q. I felt uncomfortable during a dinner for 20 in a private house. The young man on my left had…