Saturday 17 May 2008

Spectator 180th Anniversary Blog
 

The latest culture as recommended by our staff

Peter Hoskin

Pete suggests


Life and Lives

Taki lives the High Life

Dear Mary

Your problems solved

Say a little prayer

Alex James leads a Slow Life

Time for one more

Jeremy Clarke on his Low Life

The lives of others

Taki lives the High Life

Arts

Spiritual heaven

Spiritual heaven

Peter Phillips on the English choral tradition

Moving and magical

Roberto Alagna
Barbican

Simon Boccanegra
Royal Opera House

The Merry Widow
Coliseum

Books

1968 and all that

Allan Massie remembers 1968

But what about justice, fairness and honesty?

Alan Judd reads James Griffin's account of human rights

Style & Travel

What's in a name?

What's in a name?

Quite a lot, says Matthew Dennison — and it’s not all good

Sacred heights

Sacred heights

Simon Courtauld pays homage to one of the world’s great sights

In this week's issue

Meet James Purnell: the best hope Labour has of avoiding disaster

Fraser Nelson says that the 38-year-old Work and Pensions Secretary is the best candidate to succeed Gordon Brown. Already surging ahead at his department, he has the gift of sounding like an ordinary human being — and he understands the Cameron Conservative party

Fraser Nelson

I never want to be as insecure as Olivier

Tim Walker talks to Greta Scacchi about her new role in The Deep Blue Sea, the gaucheness of Bill Murray — and being offered the lead in Basic Instinct

Tim Walker

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