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A clarification

In the issue dated 28th January, a note at the bottom of my article gave the impression that I was paying for the transformation of Auckland Castle.

It’s true that I was responsible for buying the Zurbarans, but the transformation of Auckland Castle is going to need the work of many hands, many pockets and many prayers. If you can help, can you let me know?
 
Jonathan Ruffer
jruffer@ruffer.co.uk

James Forsyth

What Huhne's case means for the Lib Dems

James Forsyth

Having gone into government and lost much of their original support by taking tough decisions, the Lib Dems have consoled themselves with the hope that they have now established themselves as a serious political party. But at the top party they are aware that there is a danger that a trial of Chris Huhne and his ex-wife Vicky Pryce could make the party appear to be a bit of a joke, airing much of its dirty laundry in public.

Cartoons
Coffeehouse

The strange survival of Labour England

Fraser Nelson

Any CoffeeHousers with a taste for schadenfreude should read David Miliband’s article in the New Statesman. We have to move beyond big government, he declares. We need

Spectator

Home boys

Andrew Brown

It sounds like a cushy life for a man. On weekdays he potters about at home, running a duster over the surfaces, tinkering with a short story he’s struggling to

Night and Day

When Marty met George

Daniel Finkelstein

 I am glad that Scorsese made it. It’s just that, well, I was hoping...  

Blogs

An Advertisement for Myself

Nick Cohen

My You Can’t Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom is out this week. As the title says, it's about freedom of speech, a subject

Books

Making sense of a cruel world

Judith Flanders

The actor-biographer Simon Callow has played Dickens, and has created Dickensian characters, in monologues and in a solo bravura rendition of A Christmas Carol. Now he suggests that the theatricality

Arts & Culture

An ideal Christmas

Andrew Lambirth

Christmas approaches, and my thoughts turn, with reassuring inevitability, to Dickens. As the nights draw in and the winter winds blast across the fields of East Anglia, the counter-urge is

Food & Drink

Tailored Scotch

Dave Broom

While it is an accepted fact that a true gentleman will make his tweed jacket last a lifetime - there is nothing more likely to raise the eyebrows of

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