17+ hour, 2+ min ago  (67+ words) Arming the dragon'The Spectator Latest issue April 13 2026 Many of us, if told we must live by foraging in the wild, would quickly go toes up " from fear, not malnourishment, like the birds in Ol" Paul the Mighty Logger, who saw…...

4+ week, 3+ hour ago  (198+ words) Beamish, the living history museum in County Durham, invites visitors to "step into the past. It shows how people lived in the early 20th century and attracts plenty who want to see what life was like in a simpler and " in…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (764+ words) The gentrification of British crime novels'The Spectator The gentrification of British crime novels Eighty years ago this month, in February 1946, the left-wing Tribune magazine published George Orwell's essay "The Decline of the English Murder' in which the writer identified a…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (284+ words) A few days after Tom Stoppard's death last month, Michael Baum, a distinguished surgeon, wrote a letter to the Times. He explained how Stoppard's discussion of chaos theory in Arcadia had inspired him to discover a new and far more…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (234+ words) Jonathan Cape, pp. 176, "18 a chaplet of moments and images, worn away like rosary beads. Walking past a late-night launderette and seeing them each with a book on their lap, doing a weekly wash together (and feeling too shy to disturb…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (419+ words) I have been having a John le Carr" holiday. Five years after the great master of the spy thriller went to his final safe house in the sky, I spent chunks of the festive season watching two of his series…...