Life
Spectator competition winners: toe-curling Valentine poems
In Competition No. 3286, you were invited to submit a toe-curling Valentine poem to Harry, or to the love object…
An innate contradiction: Mount St Restaurant reviewed
The Mount St Restaurant lives above the Audley Public House on Mount Street, ‘a traditional neighbourhood pub, carefully restored, and…
England rugby must try harder
The first two rounds of the Six Nations have exploded across the sporting landscape insuperlative – draining displays of skill…
Mark Steyn and the free-speech question
James Delingpole and I had a blazing row on our weekly podcast on Monday. We were discussing the recent departure…
The man who makes money where no one else dares to go
Rwanda The mineshaft is dark, the air humid and starved of oxygen. I follow Marcus Edwards-Jones out of the muddy…
My eight-year campaign to cancel my mobile phone contract
The man in the phone shop greeted me with what I presume is a look specifically designed and reserved for…
Kicking a football has been one of the joys of my life
Two nights running I was incontinent of urine and woke up with warmly weighted pyjama bottoms. Former nurse Catriona didn’t…
Aussie life
The return of the Mardi Gras Parade to Oxford Street after a two-year absence will be welcomed by the majority…
Language
Lake Superior State University in the US publishes a list of ‘banished words’– terms that have been so misused or…
2591: Get over it
The nine individual unclued lights form three sets of three, each set related to a theme word in a different…
On song
In Competition No. 3285, you were invited to supply an extract from the libretto of a musical based on the…
Knocked up
Mind your language: Knocked up
The dying days of abstinence
There is one advantage to a stay in hospital followed by confinement to barracks: time to read and to think.…
