Charles Cornish-Dale

2 weeks ago | thespectator.com | Dot Wordsworth |Alexander Larman |Charles Cornish-Dale |cocaineBy James Delingpole

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been troubled by two verbal peculiarities in a week. The Duchess corrected a friend who called her “Meghan Markle” on television. “It’s so funny, too, that you keep saying Meghan Markle. You know I’m Sussex now,” she said. “This is our family name, our little family name.”Well, yes and no. Her children were registered as Mountbatten-Windsor at birth. That was a name invented by a declaration in the Privy Council in 1960.

2 months ago | thespectator.com | Charles Cornish-Dale |James Carden |Roger Kimball |Becket Adams

Marko Elez. If that name means anything, you might spend a little too much time on the internet. Elez is a whizz kid at DoGE, the newly minted Department of Government Efficiency, which is currently taking a flamethrower/bazooka/heavy weapon of your choice to whole departments of the federal government. Cue much wailing and gnashing of teeth from politicians, journalists and common-garden liberals everywhere.

Jan 24, 2025 | thespectator.com | Olivia Potts |Ross Anderson |Sean Thomas |Charles Cornish-Dale

Pub food in Britain has had a mixed reputation over the years. For a long time, the most a pub would have to offer as food would be some pork scratchings or a pickled egg. There certainly wasn’t a brigade of chefs in white coats in a shiny chrome kitchen. This is midweek-teatime cooking, it’s sling-it-in-an-oven cooking, it’s cheer-me-up-quickly cookingPub grub started to appear in the 1970s, but it was simple, filling and predictable.

Dec 26, 2024 | thespectator.com | Roger Kimball |Ed Zotti |Ross Anderson |Charles Cornish-Dale

Last month we took a quick trip to Tuscany. Among the wines we sampled was Sassicaia, the fabled Cabernet blend from Bolgheri on the Tuscan coast. I said that the wine was an “instant sensation,” but an alert reader pointed out that it was only when it was sold commercially, in the late 1960s, that it took the wine world by storm. Before that, it was the private province of its creator, the marchese Mario Incisa della Rocchetta, who began experimenting with Bordeaux grapes in the 1940s.

Dec 23, 2024 | thespectator.com | Charles Cornish-Dale

Recently, scientists were baffled by the discovery that ice cream is a superfood. Yes, that’s right, people who eat ice cream tend to be healthier than those who don’t. A lot healthier. It’s “nutrition science’s most preposterous result,” according to the Atlantic. In fact, there’s nothing preposterous about it, if you actually know anything about the ingredients that go into ice cream. You’ve got high-quality milk protein and fat, sugars and a whole lot of vitamins and minerals.