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1 week ago | 
spectator.co.uk | Cosmo Landesman
Text size Small Medium Large Line Spacing Compact Normal Spacious Comments When I turned 70 in September, I had a panic attack. I was certain that my romantic life was over. I’d finally crossed over from middle-age into old age and had joined that sad tribe of the unshaggable. My time as a fun-loving lothario was at an end. Goodbye hot wild monkey sex – hello hot cocoa. These days, thanks to my chronic arthritis of the knee, I can’t raise my leg, much less get it over Concerned female friends...
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1 week ago | 
spectator.com.au | Cosmo Landesman
When I turned 70 in September, I had a panic attack. I was certain that my romantic life was over. I’d finally crossed over from middle-age into old age and had joined that sad tribe of the unshaggable. My time as a fun-loving lothario was at an end. Goodbye hot wild monkey sex – hello hot cocoa.
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3 weeks ago | 
thespectator.com | Ella Dorn |Magdalene Taylor |Ian Williams |Cosmo Landesman
Women’s expectations are off. They want men with advanced degrees, but on university campuses, women outnumber their male counterparts. They want men with above-average incomes, but the gender pay gap has been reversed – young women now out-earn men. They want men who share their politics, but in almost every western country over the past decade or so, women have slid to the left while men have remained centrist.
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1 month ago | 
spectator.com.au | Cosmo Landesman
For me, one of the great pleasures of public transport is getting into a conversation with a stranger. But in our age of smart-phones and headphones, where everyone is plugged into their own private space, it’s a pleasure that’s becoming increasingly rare. So when I heard of a new scheme by Transport for London (TfL) to encourage people to chat to each other, I was eager to sign-up.
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1 month ago | 
spectator.co.uk | Cosmo Landesman
For me, one of the great pleasures of public transport is getting into a conversation with a stranger. But in our age of smart-phones and headphones, where everyone is plugged into their own private space, it’s a pleasure that’s becoming increasingly rare. So when I heard of a new scheme by Transport for London (TfL) to encourage people to chat to each other, I was eager to sign-up. I admit that I’m not keen on most of TfL’s schemes to affect public behaviour.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Catriona Olding |Cosmo Landesman |Aidan Hartley |Rory Sutherland
ProvenceMolly MacCarthy launched the Bloomsbury Memoir Club in the spring of 1920 with two aims. The first was to bring together the old Bloomsbury set who’d been dissipated by World War One and the second was to encourage her dilatory husband, Desmond, to write his memoir. She was successful in the first but not the second.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Cosmo Landesman |Rory Sutherland |Bill Kauffman |Nicholas Farrell
I recently got some good news I’d like to share: I’m thirty-six years old. Yes, I know I’m chronologically seventy — but a blood and urine test I had reveals that I’m biologically thirty-six. (Your chronological age is the number of years you’ve lived; your biological age is how old your cells are.) Dr. Alka Patel, a brilliant British longevity expert tells me that she has never seen such a big gap between chronological and biological age as mine. So, what does this mean?
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1 month ago | 
spectator.com.au | Cosmo Landesman
I recently got some good news I’d like to share: I’m thirty-six years old. Yes, I know I’m chronologically seventy — but a blood and urine test I had reveals that I’m biologically thirty-six.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Charles Lipson |Cosmo Landesman |Mark Galeotti |Nicholas Farrell
Americans are being given a national ink-blot test. Their answers tell us how a divided country sees the political landscape and what they think of President Trump’s bold efforts to reshape it. The scope for differing interpretations is illustrated by a story about one such Rorschach test. The psychiatrist shows his new patient ink blot after ink blot. No response. Finally, the exasperated doctor pleads with him to say something, anything.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Julius Strauss |Cosmo Landesman |Mark Galeotti |Nicholas Farrell
If I had a penny for every time I have been told that Russian President Vladimir Putin only wants respect. Or that he is only interested in eastern Ukraine. Or that if Kyiv is only denied NATO membership then he will call off the tanks. Well, in the last seven days US President Donald Trump has given Putin all this and more. And, though it is still early days, so far the war is showing no sign of slowing.
