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Kingsley Amis, in a letter to The Spectator in 1995, attributed to "fastidiousness" the rise of tidbit in preference to titbit (which would ...

Every April and every Halloween weekend, Whitby in Yorkshire is chock-full of goths. As I seem to be The Spectator's adopted goth, I was ...

Where better to showcase the unsung hero braised beef mince than in a beautiful short-crust pie? Simply nothing ...

Eventually, masochism took hold and I downloaded Bumble after thinking it was my last time trying out online dating ...

Shortly before his death, Hugh revealed that after nearly 130 years in Kenya, the Delameres did not owe any money to the bank. I only hope ...

One reads a book at 20 and it speaks or it doesn't, but re-read it 60 years later and it has become a different book ...

I often think of the first time I ate brown bread ice cream. I know how that sounds: it's the exact sort of pretentious nonsense a food writer ...

My oldest friend and I had vowed to venture to Salem one day while deep in our own teenage phase of occultism ...

The lapping of the waves eased my mind. They didn't sound like they were going to wash away the entire Maldives Islands ...

Why do we seem to have forgotten the association between Halloween and the fairies? One reason is that the Halloween now celebrated in ...