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New York Diary

Tina Brown

12th December, 2007

Tina Brown on why New York Christmases are bigger and bolder than celebrations elsewhere and why Barack Obama is the political toast of the holiday season.

Nativity lessons

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O�Connor

12th December, 2007

Life in Italy as a student priest

A swift dip in the sea at Christmas

Fergal Keane

12th December, 2007

Old Ireland lives on in an Ardmore village custom

How, as Mayor, I would help our brave troops

Boris Johnson

13th December, 2007

Boris Johnson is appalled by the indifference towards veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. Whatever our views, we should honour those who have performed their duty

The Spectator asked a select groupÂ including the Archbishop of Canterbury, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Charles Moore, AC Grayling, Jonathan Aitken and Christopher Hitchens if they believed in the Virgin Birth.

Who can beat Hillary?

John O'Sullivan

12th December, 2007

The battle for the Republican nomination

A star at Christmas

Joan Collins

12th December, 2007

Joan Collins's Festive Notebook

The Liverpool I loved

Beryl Bainbridge

12th December, 2007

Merseyside memories in the European Capital of culture

Me and my stuntman

Steven Berkoff

12th December, 2007

The actor's stunt double makes him feel like a schoolgirl

Ron Paul, new Republican

Christopher Caldwell

12th December, 2007

Christopher Caldwell on the impact of Ron Paul, the anti-war congressman running for the Republican nomination and finding unexpected support on the web

How To Be Topp

Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle

12th December, 2007

A seasonal reading from Molesworth

Problems in Poland

Anne Applebaum

12th December, 2007

Where have all the plumbers gone?

Christmas notebook

Barry Humphries

12th December, 2007

Barry Humphries on battling BT and Australia's new Prime Minister

We only drink to be naughty

Celia Walden

12th December, 2007

It's silly to see booze as sinful

How to write a bestseller

Tony Parsons

12th December, 2007

Your heart must be in it

My goose is cooked

Theodore Dalrymple

12th December, 2007

What's so good about these indigestible birds?

Christmas short story

William Boyd

12th December, 2007

The Spectator's short story for the holidays

Gillian Gibbons was released too soon

Rod Liddle

5th December, 2007

The good news is that British Muslims took a stand

She never stops changing

Robert Hardman

5th December, 2007

Hailing the talent of Elizabeth II for dignified adaptation

Will Labour get rid of Gordon?

Fraser Nelson

5th December, 2007

There is conspiring in the corridors once again in Westminster. Who could replace Gordon, they ask. Labour’s problem is that the young pretenders are too young and the idea of caretaker leader seems slightly ridiculous, it would look absurd for the government to change Prime Minister twice in the same Parliament. So, Brown will solider on while the battle of succession rages just beneath the surface.