Dogs
Letters
Why we need a free press Sir: As bereaved parents and (to borrow from some signatories of last week’s advertisement)…
Here come the dog police
Feral bureaucrats are banning dogs from places they’ve been walked for generations. But now owners are fighting back
We buy dogs to reflect ourselves. So who’s buying all these killer pitbulls?
I’ve called the doggie hospital three times now to find out how Jessie’s getting on. She’s just come round, at…
Spirits of Bruegel
The ostensible subject matter is misleading, as is any conflation with his lesser relatives’ wassailing peasants and roistering village squares.…
Always keep a-hold of Nurse…
Soon after moving to London at the age of 20, Nina Stibbe wrote to her sister Vic saying, ‘Being a…
Long life
A month ago I was reporting complacently that peace and calm had returned to Stoke Park after a series of…
Diary
Hay-making was easy this year, and over in good time for a holiday. I am opposed to holidays, having worked…
Speculation season
It’s been a long, hot, soccerless holiday. There has been football about — the women’s European Championship, for example, and…
Letters
Tax breaks for families Sir: Hugo Rifkind is wrong to imply (6 July) that the current income tax system is indifferent…
The Spectator’s Notes
MPs are incomparable. This may seem an odd thing to say in the current climate of opinion, but I mean…
