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Sarah Vine: Why Jeremy Corbyn is the new Oliver Cromwell
Owing to the spectacular uselessness of Ticketmaster, my son missed out on his birthday treat, seats for Hamilton at the…
Why I’m bombarded with ads for funeral insurance and knitted animals
This year began badly with the death of Alexander Chancellor, former editor of this magazine. He was the most fun…
Max Hastings’ Diary: Historian Sir Michael Howard and a tale of E.M. Forster and sardines
Lunch with the great Sir Michael Howard, 95 last week. During a conversation about BBC1’s Howards End, he said: ‘I…
It’s not just the Queen who approves of Meghan – the corgis do, too
Meghan Markle certainly knows how to impress the in-laws. She has announced that she and Prince Harry are going to…
I once worshipped ‘freedom fighters’ but Mugabe just looked like a teacher
At the top of Machu Picchu last week, I saw two wide-winged condors swoop over Sacred Valley through a rainbow…
Rachel Johnson: The trouble with today’s porn? Older men are terrified by it
Long letter from the High Mistress of St Paul’s Girls’ School, addressing me as ‘Dear Old Paulina’ (I thought we…
Between Trump and Harvey Weinstein, America is fast approaching outrage overload
It’s remarkable how fast the unthinkable becomes the expected. It felt almost routine to pick up the New York Post…
Peter Hitchens: Why I climbed on my soapbox after refusing to sign a university’s ‘free speech’ contract
Where better to be than in Liverpool on a crisp autumn evening, haranguing an open-air meeting of students? I hadn’t…
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To ITV’s London headquarters at the ungodly hour of 3.30 a.m. Piers Morgan is sunning himself in Beverly Hills and I’m…
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New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Raleigh, Dallas… I’m on a book tour in Donald Trump’s USA, which feels much like the…
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I used to long for mid-October when I could say goodbye to the hot rooms, cold buffets, and warm white…
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The best reason for visiting party conferences is to sniff the air. It’s fragments of conversation drifting through a bar,…
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I don’t know why party conferences no longer take place in Scarborough. As a child, I saw many an important…
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Next month, the Today programme marks its 60th anniversary, so I have been mugging up on the archives. If there…
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I never expected to visit Iceland, let alone play cricket there. But the Iceland national team was off to play…
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I never expected to visit Iceland, let alone play cricket there. But the Iceland national team was off to play…
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September is my time of year. Summer is all very well if you’re one of those golden-haired, long-limbed types who…
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Boris Johnson is inspecting the guard of honour and we are doing our best not to giggle. The Foreign Secretary…
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It has been a summer of tears, both of joy and sorrow. The latter first: how could stones not weep…
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To the Business School at the University of Edinburgh to be interviewed on the theme of ‘Great Political Disasters’. Main…
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No sympathy from me for the Brits stuck in the European heatwave. I’ve never understood people who go abroad for…
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Diana Spencer has been dead for 20 years. I was a journalist on the Evening Standard in those days and…
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As pictures go, it could be career death. An amazing young talent caught in a compromising position with two older…
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Monday morning and I am heading south on Harley Street towards a rendezvous with ramifications, a date that is also…
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It has been an unqualified delight, even if it is mildly absurd: I have been chairing the judges for this…
