The Best of The Spectator
9 most popular The Spectator articles, as voted by our community.
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The Spectator on Food
English food has always been a moveable feast
There is a lot to like about Diane Purkiss’s English Food. It’s a hefty thing, packed full of titbits to trot out down the pub, but also a serious consideration of how English food has changed over…
The Spectator on Language
The art of exclamation marks!
This is a short book, but it carries a punch, as does its subject, the exclamation mark – or shriek, or bang, as it is occasionally and graphically called. I use the word ‘graphically’ advisedly, for…
The Spectator on Running
Help! I've become a marathon bore
Over dinner with a friend last week, halfway through a bottle of Merlot, I noticed her eyes starting to glaze over as I spoke. Normally, I’d be offended – but it’s something I’ve experienced a lot…
The Spectator on Science
Who really discovered DNA’s structure?
Tuesday 28 February marks the 70th anniversary of – in my view – the most important day in the history of science. On a fine Saturday morning with crocuses in flower along the Backs in Cambridge, two…
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Cracking consciousness: how do our minds really work?
With scientists mapping our neurons in ever greater detail, and programmers creating ever more humanlike artificial intelligence, the gap between brain and machine seems to be rapidly shrinking —…
The art of menus
Menus are not merely functional lists – they are self-advertisements, exhibitions, seductions and, occasionally, objects of desire
From Leonardo to Hepworth: the art of surgery
A short history of art's obsession with the surgeon's scalpel
Is an unknown, extraordinarily ancient civilisation buried under eastern Turkey?
I am staring at about a dozen, stiff, eight-foot high, orange-red penises, carved from living bedrock, and semi-enclosed in an open chamber. A strange carved head (of a man, a demon, a priest, a…
Naples will never escape the shadow of Vesuvius
Death has always haunted the splendid, squalid capital of the south, making it unlike any other Italian city, says Marius Kociejowski
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