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Spectator Writers’ Dinner with Richard Bratby

  • Thursday 17 July 2025, 7:00pm
  • Spectator Boardroom, 22 Old Queen Street, London SW1H 9HP
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Spectator Life

An intelligent mix of culture, food, style and property, plus where to go and what to see.

The lost art of getting lost

From the magazine

One of the quietly profound pleasures of travel is renting cars in ‘unusual’ locations. I’ve done it in Azerbaijan, Colombia, Syria and Peru (of which more later). I’ve done it in Yerevan airport, Armenia, where the car-rental guy was so amazed that someone wanted to hire a car to ‘drive around Armenia’ that he apparently

Spectator TV

Michael Henderson

The glorious elitism of Glyndebourne

From Spectator Life

Magazine

This week's magazine

End of the rainbow

The fall of Pride

Gareth Roberts

End of the rainbow: Pride’s fall can’t come soon enough

Is Pride flopping? This parti-coloured celebration of all things LGBTQIA+ started half a century ago as an afternoon’s little march for lesbians and gay men. Then it became a day, then a week, then a month, and now it spreads throughout the summer, accompanied by all manner of feast days and ‘visibility’ events. Its expansion

End of the rainbow: Pride’s fall can’t come soon enough

Is Pride flopping? This parti-coloured celebration of all things LGBTQIA+ started half a century ago as an afternoon’s little march for lesbians and gay men. Then it became a day, then a week, then a month, and now it spreads throughout the summer, accompanied by all manner of feast days and ‘visibility’ events. Its expansion

Culture

The good, the bad and the ugly in books, exhibitions, cinema, TV, dance, music, podcasts and theatre.

Why is the BBC making stuff up about Jane Austen?

From the magazine

Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius began by saying that ‘getting into her mind isn’t easy’ – something you’d never have guessed from the rest of the episode, where both the narrator and the talking heads were able to tell us exactly what Austen was thinking and feeling at any given time. Like many Austen

Podcasts

Cartoons

Nick Newman

‘‘In this one Mrs Goggins dies of old age before she gets compensation.’’

Cartoon

Wilbur

‘‘Before we get too serious I must ask – do you want puppies?’’

Cartoon

Flora Watkins

What was so great about the 1990s?

From Spectator Life