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Elizabeth Hurley deserves a damehood

23 September 2023 9:00 am

With the boiling, broiling summer here in Provence now at an end, it’s time to start thinking about rehearsing for…

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16 September 2023 9:00 am

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9 September 2023 9:00 am

How Damien Hirst ruined Devon

2 September 2023 9:00 am

There are few better locations to resist la rentrée than the wilds of Exmoor. The late August heather and gorse.…

Don’t cancel Queen

26 August 2023 9:00 am

Another week, another whitewash. The latest chunk of culture to be painted out of existence is ‘Fat Bottomed Girls’, Queen’s…

London theatre needs Kevin Spacey

19 August 2023 9:00 am

Lee Anderson, deputy chairman of the Conservative party, popped a few monocles by saying asylum seekers reluctant to stay on…

Why on earth did The Spectator support Brexit?

12 August 2023 9:00 am

The temperature has hit 40°C in Crete, where I am writing this, and although there have been no fires, nothing…

My run-in with Nigel Farage

5 August 2023 9:00 am

To think I once thought cricket dull. For more than 40 days and 40 nights, I have been gripped by…

I sledged Steve Smith for England

29 July 2023 9:00 am

In this summer of sporting dramas, every patriotic sports fan likes to think he’s done his bit to help. I…

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22 July 2023 9:00 am

When someone asks ‘How are you?’ you have to assume your interlocutor is only being polite. Anyone who returns a…

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My hope for Ukraine

10 June 2023 9:00 am

  Kyiv   When Winston Churchill visited bomb sites during the Blitz, the most common sentiment he heard was, ‘We…

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3 June 2023 9:00 am

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Turkey is at an existential crossroads

20 May 2023 9:00 am

The wonderful Barbara Kingsolver wrote that hope is something you should not admire from a distance, but rather live inside…

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