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The death of the Norwegian monarch, King Harald, at the age of 89 might, initially, seem like a sad but ultimately inconsequential event as far as the...
“Do Tim Curry proud,” my friend Simon said to me when he heard I was writing about him. Simon is, admittedly, a Tim Curry fan extraordinaire whose...
The death of the Norwegian monarch, King Harald, at the age of 89 might, initially, seem like a sad but ultimately inconsequential event as far as the...
It isn’t long now until the joyous day that Harry and Meghan once more make Britain their home, but several aspects of their return are still...
‘And try to make the most of every moment / ’Cause if you never try, you never win.’ There are few more appropriate lines with which to begin...
‘And try to make the most of every moment / ’Cause if you never try, you never win.’ There are few more appropriate lines with which to begin...
The much-loved – in some quarters – Wetherspoon pub chain is associated with many things. For their supporters, who include this writer, they...
It isn’t long now until the joyous day that Harry and Meghan once more make Britain their home, but several aspects of their return are still...
It has been quite the week for Prince Harry. A couple of days ago, he announced that he would be moving his family back to Britain – not in years,...
A shade over three decades ago, Gary Barlow and Take That sang ‘Whatever I said, I didn’t mean it, I want you back for good’. ‘Back for...
A shade over three decades ago, Gary Barlow and Take That sang ‘Whatever I said, I didn’t mean it, I want you back for good’. ‘Back for...
King Charles is currently on his summer holiday in Balmoral. After the stresses and difficulties of the past few months – which have included a...
It is usually taken as a given, for better or worse, that the Grand Old Men of English letters tend to move, if not necessarily to the right, to an...
When I go on my hols this summer, I will, as ever, be taking a couple of novels with me. My golden rule for any break is only to take the kind of...
When did you, Spectator readers, last send an emoji in a text, DM or, gasp, email? I’ve just looked through the last...
I am a great believer that there should be no unbroachable topic in comedy, as long as the person broaching it does so in a funny enough fashion....
I am a great believer that there should be no unbroachable topic in comedy, as long as the person broaching it does so in a funny enough fashion....
By rights, the 33-year-old singer-songwriter and actress Ariana Grande should be at the peak of her profession. She won acclaim for her performances...
By rights, the 33-year-old singer-songwriter and actress Ariana Grande should be at the peak of her profession. She won acclaim for her performances...
There are those Spectator readers who are fortunate enough to own their own luxurious villas in some suitably picturesque European locale. For the...
It seems incredible, in the year of our lord 2026, that Argos still exists. And no, I don’t mean Odysseus’ dog; I mean the chain of...
The recent death of the actor Sam Neill, at the age of 78, was greeted with a mixture of surprise, sorrow and, in many quarters, unexpected grief. It...
Picture the scene. You have bravely battled onto the set of MasterChef Australia, hoping that your strawberry pavlova or similar hero dish is going...
Picture the scene. You have bravely battled onto the set of MasterChef Australia, hoping that your strawberry pavlova or similar hero dish is going...
If you have not spent a great deal of time on the internet, you will probably know the British actress Jameela Jamil for her starring role in the...
Now that Britain’s latest prime minister has gone through the ritual of ‘kissing hands’ with the monarch – these days, a small bow tends to be...
Every time statistics are released about our lunching habits, I become ever more depressed. Apparently, as many as seven in ten of us fail to leave...
It was always going to go this way. Every gambler eventually loses, and the higher profile that loss, the greater the eventual humiliation. But...
When Taylor Swift, the billionaire pop star, announced her engagement to Travis Kelce, the rather less wealthy (although still multi-millionaire) NFL...
Amidst the summer’s plethora of advertisements aimed at the moronic, desperate and gullible, an especially crass one stands out. Ralph...
If you had been queuing up to buy tickets at Wimbledon yesterday, then you might have been forgiven for doubting your eyesight to see none other than...
If you’ve spent more than five minutes on social media in the past couple of years, you will probably be familiar with the tradwife phenomenon that...
One of the many likeable characteristics of Queen Camilla is that she has a clear, full-throated passion for literature. She has taken her husband,...
The news that Dame Penelope Keith has died at the age of 86 has devastated lovers of great British humour, to say nothing of Spectator readers. The...
If you wanted to contrast the public lives of the two warring sides of the Royal Family, last weekend gave us the perfect opportunity to do so. The...
Madonna Louise Ciconne has had one of the more eventful American lives of the past half-century, and it is little wonder that she might wish to depict...
When it was announced that King Charles was going to become the first monarch in history to release details of how much income tax he paid, it seemed...
When the actor Armie Hammer looked like he was on the verge of becoming a big star, it was an endless source of amusement for gossip columnists and...
Every year, the American theater world gathers in New York to celebrate the best of the best, and every year, writers like me ask why the judges have...
I wrote recently about my delight that an excellent second-hand bookshop has opened in my home city of Oxford. Well, karma has come around. In the...
I wrote recently about my delight that an excellent second-hand bookshop has opened in my home city of Oxford. Well, karma has come around. In the...
Many people find the idea of actors breaking the fourth wall while on stage mortifying. As such, they will react to the news that Rosamund Pike, the...
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was photographed driving yesterday with a large bruise on his face. Whichever unfortunate “well-placed source” that has...
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was photographed driving yesterday with a large bruise on his face. Whichever unfortunate ‘well-placed source’ that has...
Last weekend saw the most unlikely battle between David and Goliath. The little film that could was none other than the psychological horror film...
It has become commonplace for pessimistic bibliophiles like me to say that second-hand bookshops are an endangered species. You can pick your reason...
Arthur Miller may have died two decades ago, but America’s answer to Euripides and Sophocles is having a moment. The great tragedian’s plays have...
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