Life
Dear Mary: A horrid woman accused me of hogging a spare train seat
Q. I regularly travel on the Ashford-St Pancras train and usually put my case on the seat next to me…
Siena shows that northern Italy is just better at getting drunk
The Indian summer was still fending off the mists and mellow fruitfulness. But the autumn term was about to begin;…
Why would Jeremy Corbyn want to be credible when he can be incredible?
In a wonderfully dry manual of theology on my husband’s bookshelves, written in Latin and printed in Naples in the…
Battle for Britain
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Checkmate me in St Louis
The Sinquefield Cup in St Louis, one of the strongest tournaments of all time, has been convincingly won by the…
Puzzle no. 378
Black to play. This position is a variation from So-Aronian, St Louis 2015. How can Black conclude the attack? Answers…
Bennboozled
In Competition No. 2914 — which was inspired by a speech given by the late Sir Keith Joseph in which…
Dear Mary
Q. I regularly travel on the Ashford-St Pancras train and usually put my case on the seat next to me…
Stewed Siena
The Indian summer was still fending off the mists and mellow fruitfulness. But the autumn term was about to begin;…
High life
Serena Williams, according to some commentators the greatest woman who has ever graced this earth of ours, will complete the…
Long life
I remember Sidney Blumenthal from my time in Washington in the late 1980s when I was there as the first…
Long life
I remember Sidney Blumenthal from my time in Washington in the late 1980s when I was there as the first…
Low life
There is something repulsive about the sea, especially when seen from the altitude of the upper decks of a monstrous…
Low life
There is something repulsive about the sea, especially when seen from the altitude of the upper decks of a monstrous…
Credible
In a wonderfully dry manual of theology on my husband’s bookshelves, written in Latin and printed in Naples in the…
Real life
Exciting news. We might be expecting. I say might because I haven’t done a pregnancy test yet. I thought about…
My own modest proposal: designer babies for the poor
I’ve just written an essay for Quadrant, an Australian periodical, in which I propose a controversial solution to the problem…
My own modest proposal: designer babies for the poor
I’ve just written an essay for Quadrant, an Australian periodical, in which I propose a controversial solution to the problem…
Eugenics for your email
You won’t read much about Sir Francis Galton nowadays because, while it’s inarguable that the man was a giant in…
Bridge
The bridge world continues to be electrified by the scandal that Janet wrote about last week. Lotan Fisher and Ron…
Before cruises there were crossings – the good old days!
On board MS Queen Victoria They remain engraved on my brain, like something out of a Greek tragedy, so…
Taki's table talk and my fears about the Spectator cruise
Last Saturday afternoon, in Venice, 31 Spectator readers, plus Martin Vander Weyer, the great Taki and I came aboard the…
Hell is dealing with police bureaucracy
‘Yes, you can report it, but it’s going to take ten minutes to go through the process,’ said the oppressively…
I lived next to St Paul’s Cathedral as a baby in 1940 – it’s a miracle I am alive
While the Germans were raining bombs on London during the second world war, the architects’ department of London County Council…
Mrs Oakley has finally seen the light about racing
Heaven be praised for the sinner who repenteth, however long it takes. For President George Bush Senior, his occasional meetings…
