Apple of my i
It doesn’t matter how popular the iPad is, not everyone is buying it. ‘Lucy and I think they are like the mini-disc,’ a sarcastic colleague told me last week. ‘They’ll get junked as soon as the fuss...
View ArticleVocal support
When I last watched the Heaven family home videos, a striking trend emerged. In every clip from the early 1990s, one of my siblings or I was being encouraged to sing. We babies were bounced on...
View ArticleRegrets and retakes
Every year — according to Fleet Street legend — the Telegraph prints a lovely photograph on its front page after the A-level results are published. It shows happy, bright young ladies clutching...
View ArticleOur educational empire
Late last year Britain’s independent schools received a wake-up call. Andrew Halls, headmaster of King’s College School in Wimbledon, delivered it. Far too many of them, he said, have become the...
View ArticleSouth Africa
There are plenty of places to fly to for winter sun, but only one place that offers five-star hotels for the price of a B&B in Lyme Regis. South Africa has always been good value for British...
View ArticleApple of my i
It doesn’t matter how popular the iPad is, not everyone is buying it. ‘Lucy and I think they are like…
View ArticleVocal support
When I last watched the Heaven family home videos, a striking trend emerged. In every clip from the early 1990s,…
View ArticleRegrets and retakes
Every year — according to Fleet Street legend — the Telegraph prints a lovely photograph on its front page after…
View ArticleOur educational empire
Late last year Britain’s independent schools received a wake-up call. Andrew Halls, headmaster of King’s College School in Wimbledon, delivered…
View ArticleSouth Africa
There are plenty of places to fly to for winter sun, but only one place that offers five-star hotels for…
View ArticleCherry blossom
In what I like to think of as The Spectator’s back garden — most people call it St James’s Park…
View ArticleTo catch a jihadi
LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 04: Counter terrorism officers march near the scene of last night's London Bridge terrorist attack on June 4, 2017 in London, England. Police continue to cordon off an area after...
View ArticleMust Colston fall?
Edward Colston, mega-rich philanthropist around the year 1700, is the nearest thing Bristol has to a patron saint. The largest…
View Article‘I like making things’
Sir James Dyson would make a good therapist for anxious Brexiteers. Everything about him is comfortingly precise — his manner…
View ArticleRed London: Labour is poised to take the capital
Ever since last year’s general election, when Jeremy Corbyn inspired the strongest Labour surge since 1945, the Conservatives have been…
View ArticleNo wi-fi, no TV and no neighbours – staying with the Landmark Trust is bliss
About halfway across Lundy, if you’re trudging from the landing bay towards the north lighthouse, there’s a tiny holiday cottage…
View ArticleThe sorry demise of Benedictine education
Twenty years ago, Douai, a monastic boarding school in West Berkshire, shocked parents with an announcement that it was ‘no…
View ArticleOur jails crisis is even worse than we've been told
LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - JANUARY 19: A general view of HM Prison Liverpool after a report detailing squalid conditions was released by HM Inspectorate of Prisons on January 19, 2018 in Liverpool, England....
View ArticleThe people have not forgotten me: the exiled Empress of Iran interviewed
Portrait of a lost world: Farah Pahlavi and her mother on the day of her 1967 coronation as Empress of Iran, wearing an imperial crown made up of 3,380 diamonds, five emeralds, two sapphires and 368...
View ArticleRevealed: the press regulator’s leaked guidelines on Islamophobia
If truthful reporting risks increasing tension between communities, should it still be published? Do journalists have a social duty to…
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