Daily Telegraph
How my family loved – and lost – the Telegraph
As the Telegraph moves slowly towards Arab ownership – 15 per cent to start, and who knows what in the…
Send off
The joys of editing a newspaper letters page
Memories of Perry
I had known Perry Worsthorne for several years before I went to work for him in 1986 (horrifying how time…
The game of the name
How Wolf and Skylar pushed out John and Mary
The Spectator’s Notes
Speaking on the Today programme on Monday, Sir David Attenborough, who wants a global agreement to control carbon emissions, pointed…
Long life
I wrote last week about a swarm of bees that had attached itself to a wall of my house, as…
Diary
It’s dangerous, in my line of work, to promise you’ll be anywhere by 8 p.m. I made this mistake recently,…
Long life
The Oldie magazine — of which, until otherwise advised, I appear to be the editor — runs an occasional article…
Low life
The thing I enjoy most about travel-writing gigs is meeting other hacks. Hacks are almost invariably fun, funny, gossipy, irreverent,…
Long life
The Times has given way to the Daily Telegraph as the bastion of the established order, for— with the one…
Long life
Last week was unusual. At the start of it, I was mooching about in the country in my customary way,…
For God’s sake
A Protestant country is a free country
Dinner with the editors
Moro (‘moorish’ or ‘sexist’) is a Spanish restaurant on Exmouth Market, near the bones of the old Guardian and Observer…
