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Spectator Life

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

Would you pay for your office Christmas party?

From Spectator Life

If Christmas is a time for giving then it seems the message isn’t getting through to nearly enough office managers. For the umpteenth year running, I’m getting the annual stream of resigned-sounding complaints from friends who have office-based careers. Office life has its perks, of course; unlike my mostly-bed-and-airport-based freelance life, you actually know what

Spectator TV

Nigel Jones

Hitler and Churchill: the artists at war

From Spectator Life

Magazine

This week's magazine

Indecent proposal

Marriage is the real rebellion

Madeline Grant

Marriage is the real rebellion

Jonathan Swift had a suitably unromantic attitude to holy matrimony. Once, when sheltering under a tree during a storm near Lichfield, he was asked to marry a heavily pregnant bride to a rather guilty-looking groom. Asked to provide evidence that he had performed the shotgun wedding, Swift found a piece of paper and wrote: Under

Marriage is the real rebellion

Jonathan Swift had a suitably unromantic attitude to holy matrimony. Once, when sheltering under a tree during a storm near Lichfield, he was asked to marry a heavily pregnant bride to a rather guilty-looking groom. Asked to provide evidence that he had performed the shotgun wedding, Swift found a piece of paper and wrote: Under

Culture

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

Thom Yorke reminds me of David Brent: Radiohead reviewed

From the magazine

There were times watching Radiohead’s first UK show for seven years when Ricky Gervais came to mind. As Thom Yorke dad-danced around the circular stage in the middle of the arena, his bandmates all hunched over their equipment – which made it resemble a server room of a call centre – I felt as though

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Cartoons

RGJ

‘‘What do you think we should do about the loneliness epidemic?’’

Cartoon

James Innes-Smith

Radiohead are joyless

From Spectator Life