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Can a church blessing tame my unruly dog?
The church doing animals a real service
Right-wing comics are bringing variety back to the Fringe
I’ve been coming to the Edinburgh Fringe for five years, but this is the first time I’ve dipped my toe…
From Hong Kong to Kashmir, a new authoritarianism is on the rise
Why is Britain not condemning events in Kashmir?
Britain’s jazz scene is in full swing
Jazz died in 1959. At least, that’s what New Orleans trumpeter Nicholas Payton wrote in 2011 as part of a…
Frightful flights, a falling pound: why would you go anywhere but Britain for your summer holiday?
The collapsing pound is giving the British holiday new appeal
The secret ingredient of successful seaside towns
The real secret behind Margate’s revival isn’t so much the restored Dreamland amusement park, but the trains. A decade ago,…
The UK’s best beaches – according to Spectator writers
Tom HollandTrevone, Cornwall Pretty much every summer, my family and my cousins head for a farm in north Cornwall,…
How Boris can make the extra cash for the NHS really count
Extra cash for the NHS must come with conditions
Desert Island Discs has completely lost the plot
Desert Island Discs has lost the plot
The West cannot survive without a re-energised belief in Christianity
Christian ethics can’t survive without Christian faith
Nicky Haslam: How will Boris decorate No. 10?
‘Volcanic temper… suspicious of everyone… irritability, mood swings… terror stalking the shadows… devastating collapse of Europe’s economy… rampant insecurity, unbridled…
The spooky side of Savannah
Savannah GA is supposed to have lots of ghosts, but I’d forgotten that. It was an April morning and sunlight…
Who’ll blink first – Boris Johnson or the EU?
Even if the EU believes Boris on no deal, it might not budge
Europeans have started to change their minds on Brexit
The perspective on Brexit is changing
Edible insects are not the future of food
Edible insects are not the answer
Labour can’t cope with Boris’s BAME cabinet
Labour can’t cope with Boris’s BAME cabinet
There is a far better option than HS2 – and it already exists
Ditching HS2 and reopening the Great Central line would save the taxpayer billions
Lebanon: the world’s best failed state
Look down from the mountains outside Beirut and, on most days, you’ll see a grey blanket of smog choking the…
Just do it: the advertising industry should embrace its right-wing roots
The ad industry should return to its capitalist roots
The grim magnificence of Gisborough Priory
Gisborough Priory was founded in 1119, although the gothic chunks which remain of it today — including the grimly magnificent…
The first 100 days will make or break Boris
What will the new Prime Minister do now?
There’s another option beyond no deal or May’s deal – and Boris knows it
There is another option beyond no deal or May’s deal
Johnson & Johnson: How Samuel shaped Boris
How Samuel shaped Boris
Society cannot be run by Twitter mobs
Society cannot be run by Twitter mobs
How America’s Iran policy is shaped in Riyadh and Jerusalem
The truth about America’s Iran policy
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