spectator.co.uk/article/remaki… 'Even the teaser trailer makes it clear the creative chokehold the series is in.' ✍️ Kristina Murkett

spectator.co.uk/article/cambod… 'Even when the Khmer Rouge were extirpated – having slaughtered maybe a quarter of the population – Cambodia was too poor and shell-shocked to revive carnivals.' ✍️ Sean Thomas

'Car culture counts as genuine culture in these nouveau riche ghettos where there’s nothing to do but gorge at Nobu or Cipriani and then pop next door for liposuction.' ✍️ Adam Hay-Nicholls spectator.co.uk/article/the-gr…

spectator.co.uk/article/an-apo… 'I don’t mind the sun especially; it reminds me of my first tour in Iraq in 2004, which, compared to all the bizarre stuff going on these days, looks increasingly romantic and halcyon-like. ✍️ James Jeffrey

'In the unlikely event that Gail’s wanted to open a branch in my suburb, I’d be the first to comment in favour. I probably wouldn’t go there very often – my pockets aren’t that deep – but I’d love the cachet it would bring.' ✍️ G.V. Chappell spectator.co.uk/article/confes…

'Once, when I was 15, a boy asked me if I liked grass, and I honestly thought he meant the stuff of lawns.' ✍️ Monica Porter spectator.co.uk/article/the-tr…

'I remember taking the Dacia to a snooty restaurant in Romania where, seeing it clattering up the drive, the staff decided they didn’t want such downmarket customers and shut the gate. Awkward, given I was there to review it.' ✍️ Adrian Pascu-Tulbure spectator.co.uk/article/the-jo…

'As someone who has opened thousands of bottles of wine, I can safely say that the best corkscrew is a good quality waiter’s friend pocketknife. I never leave home without one.' ✍️ Henry Jeffreys spectator.co.uk/article/cheers…

'I slid under the table separating us on to one knee and asked him for his hand. To my surprise and slight panic, he gave it.' ✍️ Maureen Lipman spectator.co.uk/article/im-eng…

'In the greatest of Van Gogh’s Provençal landscapes, observation and imagination are in perfect balance; when the balance of his mind is upset you can read it in the swirls of paint, like reading tea leaves.' ✍️ Laura Gascoigne spectator.co.uk/article/inside…

'Charles Dickens wrote that the city was ‘a place that grows upon you every day’. We’d hardly arrived and yet it was growing upon us every minute.' ✍️ Jonathan Ray spectator.co.uk/article/why-ge…

Tips from The Spectator's racing tipster. ✍️ Penworthy spectator.co.uk/article/two-be…

'All I know about Brighton is that it has the lowest birth rate in England and the highest incidence of sexually transmitted diseases via the eye, or so a medical practitioner confidently assured me on the eve of my arrival.' ✍️ Sebastian Shakespeare spectator.co.uk/article/can-i-…

'When Motivator won in 2005 he had more owners than any Derby winner in history – 230 of them.' ✍️ Robin Oakley spectator.co.uk/article/the-in…

spectator.co.uk/article/middle… 'Swift, and Swiftiness, seems a particular magnet for royal and prime ministerial figures and their families – especially, for obvious reasons, those with daughters. Liz Truss is a fan, Rishi is a fan. Barack Obama is thought to be a fan.' ✍️ Zoe Strimpel

'The woman had pulled in there in the cart, her husband beside her, and after she went into the shop leaving him strapped in there, a crowd had gathered and come to the conclusion… the man was dead.' ✍️ Melissa Kite spectator.co.uk/article/have-i…

'Cloth is Ebenezer Scrooge’s parlour. It has dark walls; wood floors; silver candlesticks; interesting art. Human breath fogs the windows, as in a fairy tale: not enough of London is like this.' ✍️ Tanya Gold spectator.co.uk/article/as-goo…

'There is great satisfaction in seeing a vivid schlockiness amplified to evoke the real-life horror and weirdness of having a body that eats, drinks, expels and ages in general.' ✍️ Zoe Strimpel spectator.co.uk/article/not-fo…

'Despite the horrified faces of anyone I have described this recipe to over the past couple of weeks, I’m prepared to try to convince you that you – yes, you – will in fact love vitello tonnato, if you only give it a chance.' ✍️ Olivia Potts spectator.co.uk/article/give-v…

'The Elizabeth Line’s nomination is like a fig leaf for Britain’s inability to build impressive infrastructure.' ✍️ Calvin Po spectator.co.uk/article/who-sh…