Internships at The Spectator for summer 2019; no CVs (or names!) please

Since we abolished CVs for The Spectator’s internship scheme, it has acquired quite a reputation. There are fewer than two dozen journalists here in 22 Old Queen St and we recruit people rarely – but when we do, we seek to recruit from our interns. As do other people: The Spectator‘s no-CV internships helped a 48-year-old mum-of-three with no previous journalism experience to her job at The Sunday Times, and a former teacher to National Review in the US.  Last year, we hired three of our former interns. Most publications demand some kind of CV to get an internship, and it helps to have a well-connected friend or relative. Not here. In journalism, all that matters is flair, enthusiasm and capacity for hard work. Some of The Spectator’s senior staff came here via Eton and Oxford; others left school aged 16. That stuff doesn’t matter in journalism: we don’t care where, when or even whether you went to university. We won’t even ask.