Michael oakeshott

‘I hope you don’t mind these letters that just go on and on’

What an absolute darling you are!

29 October 2015 9:00 am

Iris Murdoch’s emotionally hectic novels have been enjoying a comeback lately, with an excellent Radio 4 dramatisation of The Sea,…

The devils’ advocate

27 June 2015 9:00 am

Jeremy Hutchinson was the doyen of the criminal bar in the 1960s and 1970s. No Old Bailey hack or parvenu…

The Spectator’s Notes

10 May 2014 9:00 am

Not long after the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich last summer, I wrote a piece in the Daily…