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Spectator Life

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

The slow delights of an OAP coach tour

From the magazine

Early on Monday mornings, in service stations across the country, armies of the elderly are mustering. These are the OAPs about to embark on motor coach tours to the Norfolk Broads, Cornish fishing villages, the Yorkshire Moors and Welsh ghost towns, organised by men in blazers consulting clipboards, like Kenneth Williams in Carry On Abroad.

Spectator TV

Arabella Byrne

Wimbledon’s myth of elitism

From Spectator Life

Magazine

This week's magazine

Peerless

Charles Moore and Sophia Falkner on the purge of the hereditaries

Charles Moore

Peerless: the purge of the hereditaries

The House of Lords is very old, but not quite continuous. In 1649, shortly after the execution of King Charles I, the Cromwellian House of Commons passed an act which said: The Commons of England assembled in parliament, finding by too long experience, that the House of Lords is useless and dangerous to the People

Peerless: the purge of the hereditaries

The House of Lords is very old, but not quite continuous. In 1649, shortly after the execution of King Charles I, the Cromwellian House of Commons passed an act which said: The Commons of England assembled in parliament, finding by too long experience, that the House of Lords is useless and dangerous to the People

Culture

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

How to holiday White Lotus-style: Billionaire Playground reviewed

From the magazine

Today’s television is notably fond of presenting us with very rich people to both despise and wish we lived like. As well as high-end dramas like Succession and The White Lotus (a programme that’s caused a huge rise in bookings for the resorts where its characters’ dreadfulness is filmed), there are any number of documentaries

Podcasts

Cartoons

KJ Lamb

‘‘We’ll have a red – but not full-bodied’’

Cartoon

Nick Newman

‘‘The sight of a politician in trouble always gets me going.’’

Cartoon

Nigel Jones

Venice is a city of love and menace

From Spectator Life