Daily Mail
Mail man changes his ‘Russian-sounding’ name
Sanctions, boycotts, bans, penalties of all kind: there’s no end to the punishments being slapped on Moscow. But amid the…
Mail exodus to The Times continues
The shenanigans at Northcliffe House have given Mr S much to write about in recent months. Whether it’s Geordie Greig’s…
From Baroness Trumpington to bad sex: my Christmas party week
The Airbnb accommodation at Paddington, chez Mohammed, was a fourth-floor room measuring about nine feet by five. As well as…
Will the Daily Mail’s volte-face on Brexit make the slightest difference?
It will be interesting to see whether the about-face of the Daily Mail on Brexit makes the slightest difference to…
To reverse the Daily Mail’s Brexit stance would be editorial suicide
Awake to the Today programme and ordure being dumped on me by Polly Toynbee while the Mail’s legendary Dame Ann…
Why are businesses like Center Parcs so terrified of a small minority?
I am boycotting Center Parcs. Admittedly, this is not going to have an enormous impact upon my life. It’s a…
Why did Paperchase bow to a few bug-eyed Corbynistas?
Last Saturday, the high-street chain Paperchase ran a promotion in the Daily Mail offering two free rolls of wrapping paper.…
High life
A funny thing happened on my way to lunch last week. I opened the Daily Mail and read a few…
The Spectator’s Notes
‘England in effect is insular, she is maritime, she is linked through her interactions, her markets and her supply lines…
Bad winners
Victory hasn’t stopped the vitriol among the lefties of north London
High life
The wind is maddening and constant, and gets stronger as the sun falls below the horizon. The streets are lined…
Long life
I wrote last week about a swarm of bees that had attached itself to a wall of my house, as…
Long life
It’s more than four months now since my 75th birthday, but I’m still waiting for a ‘cold call’ from the…
Easy virtue
Why do the right thing when you can simply say the right thing?
Losing the plot
Probably the two greatest advances in western culture in my lifetime have been the Sopranos-style epic serial drama and the…
Low life
The thing I enjoy most about travel-writing gigs is meeting other hacks. Hacks are almost invariably fun, funny, gossipy, irreverent,…
The perilous prospect of forced paternity leave
Earlier this week, the law changed to enable men to share the leave that women are currently entitled to after…
Long life
I thought that this week I might write about memory loss, but couldn’t remember if I’d written about it last…
You shouldn’t watch Dapper Laughs. But you really shouldn’t let the likes of me stop you
As you’ll know by now, I’m big on thinking the right things. Should a thought strike me that m’colleague Rod…
I’m the moody one in this marriage
Women spend ten days a year in a grumpy mood, according to the Daily Mail. The top triggers include being…
What’s happened to Harriet Harman?
Watching Harriet Harman being interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg on Newsnight earlier this week was a strange experience. I felt as…
Serious fun
Media moguls aren’t philosophers. So it’s time for philosophers to become media moguls
Diary
When visiting Britain and Australia last November, I discovered that the mayor of Toronto, Robert Ford, is now the world’s…
Long life
When one is in one’s seventies, as I am, one begins to fear the horror of dementia and to carry…
Diary
A great night to be in Pittsburgh. The local baseball team, the Pirates, were attempting to reach their first play-offs…
