The SpectatorWinemaker’s Lunch with Bodegas Artadi – Friday 27 SeptemberThe SpectatorTo buy tickets, head to the Spectator Shop. Join us in the Spectator boardroom on Friday 27 September for the next in our series of Spectator Winemaker Lunches with Bodegas Artadi. Bodegas Artadi dates from 1981 when Juan Carlos López de Lacalle, his family and 13 other growers founded the estate in …
The SpectatorNo. 593The Spectator - Luke McShaneWhite to play, a variation from McShane–-Kamsky. In the game above, I was hoping to see 31…Qa5, as I had spotted an opportunity to turn the tables completely. What is White’s next move? Answers should be sent to ‘Chess’ at The Spectator by Tuesday 3 March or via email to victoria@spectator.-co.uk. …
The SpectatorThe best news for Bernie is that his rivals are so weakThe Spectator - Freddy Gray‘Bernie beats Trump! Bernie beats Trump!’ That’s what Bernie Sanders’s fans keep chanting, and they have the polls to prove it. Survey after survey suggests that, of all the leading candidates for the Democratic party’s nomination, Sanders is most likely to defeat Donald Trump in the election in …
The SpectatorIncrement and excrementThe Spectator - Luke McShaneThe science-fiction writer Douglas Adams ridiculed our primitive species for considering digital watches to be ‘a pretty neat idea’. Digital chess clocks really are pretty neat, because they enable modern competitive games to be played with an ‘increment’. For each move played, you earn extra …
The SpectatorThe ‘Westminster paedophile ring’ is a lesson in how not to carry out a police investigationThe SpectatorA cornerstone of any -functioning democracy is the separation of police and the courts on one hand, and government and parliament on the other. Where the latter are charged with making the law, they should never, ever be allowed to interfere with the enforcement of that law. Politicians have no …
The SpectatorAnglo-Chinese misunderstanding: an Oxford don visits 1960s BeijingThe Spectator - Mike CormackThough promised free access and movement, Hugh Trevor-Roper was heavily monitored during his stay, leading to much indignation in his journal This book is a rather startling depiction of Hugh Trevor-Roper’s involvement with the Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding (SACU), his sponsored visit to …
