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Was it perhaps the landscape historian Oliver Rackham who gave rise to our present preoccupation with old trees through his…

We can all share the anguish in the downfall of a simple soul — for movie-goers Brando’s despairing ‘I coulda’…

All organic beings descended from a single primordial blob, according to Darwin. Some of them developed sufficiently to leave the…

Six years ago, the Canadian author Clancy Martin made a splash with his autobiographical novel How to Sell, based on…

To call Nils Büttner a killjoy is perhaps a little unfair, but not very. The professor at Stuttgart’s State Academy…

Fifty years ago this summer, a new show appeared on American TV screens. These, the opening titles explained, were the…

Madeleine Thien’s third novel, recently long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, begins in Vancouver with Marie, who, like the author,…

This lovely, modest and precise book tells the story of the most productive friendship among the modernists, and the most…

Where are you going?’ demanded the boy on the wall. A walkie-talkie clipped to his denim shorts crackled, but there…

In or out? Almost two months on and I’m afraid the great debate shows no sign of abating, certainly not…

Thirty years ago this week, Queen performed what would turn out to be their last gig, at Knebworth. Their penultimate…

 Cape Town South Africa has just seen her most encouraging election results ever. The general election of April 1994, which…

How strange it is to be watching the Olympic Games on television. No wonder people have such rum ideas of…

The vast Bubye Valley Conservancy in southern Zimbabwe is slightly larger than County Durham, as well as much hotter and…

Last week, the New York Times ran the page one headline ‘Pence Supports Ryan, Showing GOP Turmoil.’ There was turmoil…

Ask me what I had for lunch yesterday and I couldn’t tell you. Names disappear as swiftly as smoke.-Birthdays, capital…

Theresa May sent a strong message to the corporate world when she criticised the ‘irrational, unhealthy and growing gap’ between…

Suppose you’d invited me round to dinner to celebrate my engagement to your daughter, which do you think would be…

Another honours list comes and goes and yet again my name is not on it. I don’t think either the…

Standing outside No. 10, our newly chosen — though not elected — Prime Minister decided to address the country directly.…

Those who want to revive grammar schools are accused of ‘bring backery’ — the unthinking idea that the past was…

From ‘Restless politicians’, The Spectator, 12 August 1916: Even those journals which a few months ago were most zealous for…

Walking along the Brighton seafront, I was struck by posters advertising endless tribute acts; among them Suspiciously Elvis, the Small…

Home The government floated the idea that individuals might receive payments in areas where fracking was approved, or where housing…

The Chinese government is unlikely to give Theresa May a panda in the near future. This week the country’s ambassador…