Reader, it’s me! I’m happy to do this, though, because I have an interest in how to be a political wife (I am married to Alex ...

These legendary lives need the clutter cleared away from them occasionally. Lawrence Durrell and his brother Gerald turned ...

Summer was the season of strangeness,’ muses Temperance, the barmaid at Little Nettlebed’s only alehouse. ‘People behaved ...

On 3 June 1960, a letter appeared in The Spectator which began: The letter was prompted by the government’s failure to act ...

So wrote Frank O’Hara in ‘Ave Maria’, in 1964. Matthew Specktor is the son of the talent agent Fred Specktor and the writer ...

The 1990s and the following decade were, it is widely agreed, a bad time to be a girl. Which is strange, because a girl ...

On 19 December 2011, at around 3.30 a.m., a young wolf in the mountains of southern Slovenia trots away from his pack and ...

The UK government is “going for growth” whilst pursuing an aggressive net zero energy policy. Are the two goals compatible?

I have always cycled everywhere in London, not because I want to save the planet but because I want to get to my destination ...

At yesterday’s Nato summit in The Hague, all but one of the 32 leaders agreed to increase their defence spending to 5 per ...

A Labour government facing a rebellion over welfare reform is something of a dog-bites-man story – Labour never finds this ...

It is a year ago next week that Labour won the general election. ‘The adults are back in the room!’ proclaimed Treasury ...