James Graham26 October 2025 5:00 pm
My train pulled up at the Manchester Piccadilly platform and suddenly I was staring at what is apparently the largest…
James Graham12 October 2025 5:00 pm
Stock exchanges around the world compete with each other to entice the most exciting companies to sell their shares on…
James Graham6 September 2025 10:00 am
Politicians have spent years talking about the need to create ‘green jobs’. In many ways they have succeeded: there are…
James Graham12 July 2025 4:00 pm
British schoolchildren spend more time learning about the American civil rights movement than the English Civil War. An entire generation…
James Graham1 July 2025 10:48 pm
Pride month has finally come to an end. Did you notice? There has definitely been a reduction in the number…
James Graham9 July 2022 9:00 am
It feels like the end, but we’ve been here before. The past months of Boris Johnson’s teetering administration have felt…
James Graham4 December 2021 9:00 am
The last time I wrote for The Spectator’s diary slot, over the summer, theatres were tentatively beginning to turn their…
James Graham3 July 2021 9:00 am
It turns out that if there’s one thing more expensive than making theatre, it’s not making it. Empty buildings haemorrhage…
James Graham9 May 2020 9:00 am
Never have I stared at my own face so much. Not because I want to, it’s just always there now,…