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Mary Wakefield is commissioning editor of The Spectator.

‘If I get an adrenaline rush, something’s gone wrong’: An interview with Free Solo’s Alex Honnold

Mary Wakefield 9 February 2019 9:00 am

If you slip you die. So what makes Alex Honnold do it?

The scent of London has changed: all I can smell now is cannabis

Mary Wakefield 26 January 2019 9:00 am

Fewer people are smoking cannabis these days, down to 1.4 million from two million, they say. I say, if you…

Benedict Cumberbatch as Dominic Cummings in Brexit: The Uncivil War

Benedict Cumberbatch on playing my husband, Dominic Cummings

Mary Wakefield 15 December 2018 9:00 am

Watching Benedict Cumberbatch become my husband

Neil MacGregor: belief is what holds a society together

Mary Wakefield 8 December 2018 9:00 am

Neil MacGregor on belief, identity and the meaning of Christmas

I admit it – I’m a smartphone addict

Mary Wakefield 1 December 2018 9:00 am

I am often extremely dismissive of people immersed in their smartphones. I tut at the mole-ish pedestrians who step out…

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As seen on screen: where to find iconic objects from classic movies

Mary Wakefield 1 December 2018 9:00 am

Mary Wakefield reveals how a carpet from The Shining inspired a thriving trade in iconic movie designs

What Mills & Boon can teach us in the age of #MeToo

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In celebration of its 110th birthday, I downloaded a Mills & Boon — The Greek Tycoon’s Blackmailed Mistress — and…

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The objects that sound witchiest on paper just look sad: Spellbound reviewed

Mary Wakefield 27 October 2018 9:00 am

Just in front of me, visiting Spellbound at the Ashmolean last week, was a very rational boy of about seven…

Yes, we London cyclists really are a nasty lot

Mary Wakefield 6 October 2018 9:00 am

One morning a long time ago, when the Spectator offices were still in Bloomsbury, I hopped my bike up onto…

‘You can’t make art without love’

Mary Wakefield 22 September 2018 9:00 am

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It’s time to take on the paedophiles

Mary Wakefield 8 September 2018 9:00 am

Abusing children is one of the most terrible things men do. We all agree about that. And I think we’re…

Why dismiss a Catholic priest for being Catholic?

Mary Wakefield 28 July 2018 9:00 am

They’re just kids! What’s your problem? This has become the default reaction of a whole raft of clever people to…

Why do so many women feel such a strong urge to paint?

Mary Wakefield 14 July 2018 9:00 am

Why do so many women feel such a strong urge to paint? It has been troubling me for years now.…

Antony Gormley’s art works better in theory than in practice

Mary Wakefield 30 June 2018 9:00 am

Antony Gormley has replicated again. Every year or so a new army of his other selves — cast, or these…

Is it ok for Muslim parents to stop their kids having non-Muslim pals?

Mary Wakefield 16 June 2018 9:00 am

Is it all right for the Muslim parents of children at British state schools to prevent their sons and daughters…

After decades in London, I still long for home. Is that too Brexity?

Mary Wakefield 5 May 2018 9:00 am

As I get older, and particularly after having a child, I feel myself unexpectedly drawn back to the countryside I…

An odd new feeling has crept up on me – sympathy for the police

Mary Wakefield 21 April 2018 9:00 am

Spring has come to my local park in its usual way. First the magnolias, then the cherry blossom, then the…

Has Virgin trains lost the plot?

Mary Wakefield 7 April 2018 9:00 am

Twelve minutes till the train. That had seemed like quite enough time as I approached the Virgin ticket machine. Two…

Commitment-phobic men are the real reason women are having children later

Mary Wakefield 10 March 2018 9:00 am

We are becoming a nation of older mothers. The average age at which a woman has her first child is…

Why we keep ignoring NGO sex scandals

Mary Wakefield 17 February 2018 9:00 am

Why we keep ignoring NGO sex scandals

‘Peacekeepers’ abuse the girls in their care, yet no one is ever punished

Mary Wakefield 27 January 2018 9:00 am

Last week, women working for the UN became the latest to join the #MeToo gang, and for all the eye-rolling…

For some girls, therapy does more harm than good

Mary Wakefield 13 January 2018 9:00 am

In the churchyard by the church near my grandmother’s house, there’s a tombstone with an inscription that’s haunted me since…

How can any intelligent person have faith?

Mary Wakefield 16 December 2017 9:00 am

Ten years ago, I had a strange debate about faith with a famous Jesuit and an agnostic psychoanalyst in a…

Monkey business: Jane Goodall

An exceptional new film about Jane Goodall unearths a remarkable love story

Mary Wakefield 2 December 2017 9:00 am

Mary Wakefield talks to the director Brett Morgen, whose film about Jane Goodall tells a remarkable love story

The iciness at the heart of the #metoo movement

Mary Wakefield 11 November 2017 9:00 am

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