Recently added articles from The Spectator:
Good women and bad men
Oct 10, 2009; ...THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNETS' NEST by Stieg LarssonMaclehose Press, £18.99, pp. 599,ISBN 9781906694166 .15.19(plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655Just in case you hadn't guessed after nearly 1,800 pages of the 'Millennium' trilogy, ...
A dogged foe
Oct 10, 2009; ...THE MONSTER IN THE BOXby Ruth Rendell Hutchinson,£18.99, pp. 277,ISBN 9780091931483 .£15.19 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655Old detectives rarely die - or age, for that matter: Poirot is forever 60, Sherlock Holmes 50, P. D. ...
Far from a sleeping partner
Oct 10, 2009; ...KISSINGER'S YEAR : 1973by Alistair HorneWeidenfeld, £20, pp. 457,ISBN 9780297850915 .£16 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655Richard Nixon had met Henry Kissinger only once before he asked him, on his landslide victory in 1968, ...
Double trouble
Oct 10, 2009; ...For followers of every sport there are trigger words, often in pairs, which immediately bring great moments to life. 'The Thriller in Manila', Muhammad Ali's third fight against Joe Frazier, probably does it for boxing. Any bracketing of 'Coe and Ovett' brings back famous ...
The Father of Scottish Tourism
Oct 10, 2009; ...'How do we make Scott more popular?' The question ran round the table and none of us had an answer. It was a meeting of the Abbotsford Trust. I am not myself a trustee, but was there as a member of an advisory committee. The Trust itself was set up after the death of Dame ...