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Mary Wakefield

Mary Wakefield is commissioning editor of The Spectator.

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I never thought I'd write about wallpaper. But I'd never seen wallpaper like Marthe Armitage's

Mary Wakefield 22 March 2014 9:00 am

Every night, while my husband reads by screen-light, my mind runs like an invisible rat two miles north to the…

Libya is imploding. Why doesn't David Cameron care?

Mary Wakefield 15 March 2014 9:00 am

A few days ago I went to a talk about Syria; one of those events for the concerned layman, in…

Would you let parents destroy ‘gay’ embryos?

Mary Wakefield 1 March 2014 9:00 am

Because I’d like to have a child, and I’m getting on a bit, my husband and I have spent time…

Why did Theresa May deport my homeless friend?

Mary Wakefield 15 February 2014 9:00 am

I’ve heard some excellent things about our Home Secretary, Theresa May. People who work in her department say she’s bright…

Hearts - the next stage of the 3D printing revolution

Mary Wakefield 1 February 2014 9:00 am

I have seen the future — your future if you’re rich enough or brave enough to embrace it — and…

The one man who makes me hope for peace in Syria

Mary Wakefield 18 January 2014 9:00 am

As Syria’s second peace conference looms, and we prepare ourselves for a lot of hot air drifting over from Geneva,…

The 3D printing revolution

Mary Wakefield 30 November 2013 10:41 am

3D printing makes almost anything possible – in art as well as life

Notes on…Sicily

Mary Wakefield 7 September 2013 9:00 am

It could be, in Sicily, there comes a time when you’ve had your fill of seaside calamari and cheap white…

Revealed: how exam results owe more to genes than teaching

Mary Wakefield 27 July 2013 9:00 am

New research by Professor Robert Plomin shows genes are more important than we like to think

Cold comfort

Mary Wakefield 2 February 2013 9:00 am

Boris Johnson claims his 'emergency shelter' keeps London's homeless off the freezing streets. I put it to the test

Stop the drugs war

Mary Wakefield 12 January 2013 9:00 am

Legalisation is Mexico’s only hope

‘Die slowly, Christian dog’

Mary Wakefield 27 October 2012 9:00 am

Paranoia among Syria’s new refugees

Mexico notebook

Mary Wakefield 15 September 2012 9:00 am

Four a.m. Something was triggering the motion-sensor on the outside light. One minute, darkness, the next, a window-full of flailing…

‘Drone warfare is coming’

Mary Wakefield 4 August 2012 6:00 am

Daniel Suarez explains how flying robots are going to change our world for ever

A Stitch in Time

Mary Wakefield 23 June 2012 10:40 am

Why Suzannah Crabb is a fashion saint

Is Dan the man?

Mary Wakefield 7 April 2012 3:00 pm

The Labour ex-para who’s putting the wind up Cameron’s gang

Diary

Mary Wakefield 18 February 2012 4:00 pm

We are not made incrementally aware of things that happen incrementally. Though something may have been changing for a while,…

How to fix orphanages

Mary Wakefield 8 October 2011 7:00 pm

Really, most of them should be shut down

Private passions

Mary Wakefield 24 September 2011 12:00 am

Mary Wakefield talks to John Studzinski about philanthropy and the importance of art

Let’s bring the abortion debate to life

Mary Wakefield 10 September 2011 12:00 am

In Germany, they perform half as many terminations as we do. Why are we so keen on them?

Girl power

Mary Wakefield 2 September 2011 10:55 am

In single-sex schools girls don’t see themselves through boys’ eyes, says Mary Wakefield

When the ships come in

Mary Wakefield 27 August 2011 12:00 pm

Ullapool is always lovely, says Mary Wakefield, but one time of year is particularly special …

‘Anti-semitism is on the rise’

Mary Wakefield 2 July 2011 12:00 am

The Chief Rabbi says we have entered a new age of intolerance

Harlem renaissance

Mary Wakefield 23 April 2011 12:00 am

A massive project to change the lives of America’s poorest children

The power of words

Mary Wakefield 2 April 2011 12:00 am

Tom Conti tells Mary Wakefield how to get inside a woman’s mind

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