Spectator
High life
Michael Beloff, QC and past president of Trinity College Oxford, has just had his memoir reviewed in The Spectator, and…
Why The Spectator is a true survivor
As print titles battle logistical disruption and falling sales from Covid-19, it’s worth saluting The Spectator’s long-lasting tenacity. It has…
The four times I have lied in 42 years writing this column
Gstaad As Emperor Maximilian told his convulsed-by-tears servants as he was about to be executed by the Mexicans: ‘Who…
High life
I think this week marks my 40th anniversary as a Spectator columnist, but I’m not 100 per cent certain. All…
High life
I was going through my paces in Hyde Park, sweating out the booze, raising the heartbeat with short wind sprints,…
The unlikely oilman
Former Spectator owner Algy Cluff on Margaret Thatcher, Robert Mugabe and Brexit
Low life
I drank Bombay gin and Fever-Tree tonic on the half-empty easyJet flight to Gatwick. I was even offered ice cubes.…
Summer listening
Just back from a few nights in Sweden to find the perfect programme on Radio 3. It was one of…
High life
Last Wednesday, 24 June, Pugs held a luncheon in honour of our first member to depart for the Elysian Fields,…
Low life
On 26 June there is a party at the Spectator office at 22 Old Queen Street to launch a paperback…
Dangerous characters
The world’s most expensive typing errors, and how they were made
Diary
Until recently I used to claim that I had been literary editor of The Spectator for over 25 years; now…
The Spectator’s Notes
Thirty years ago this Saturday, I became editor of this magazine. In the same month, the miners’ strike began, Anthony…
