Apologies for the long pause but I have a very good excuse: the birth of our daughter Ella, on November 8, at Beth Israel Hospital. I hope to be back up to speed soon. But for now, I hope you will forgive me if posting is intermittent.

All eyes in the UK are currently on Dmitriy Salita, the Jewish boxer from New York who will fight Amir Khan in Newcastle next month for the WBA light-welterweight title. But ahead of that is another important contest for Jewish boxing fans. When...

It’s been a long time since I actually enjoyed hip-hop. Five or six years of being force fed gangsta rap from passing car stereos tends to do that to a person. So it was refreshing to see and appreciate Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop version of the life...

One of my favorite bloggers, Clive Davis, has left the Spectator and struck out on his own with Clive Davis’ Confab. Add it to your RSS feed.

I’m extending the deadline for my Fawlty Towers competition to Monday, November 2. Come on people! Send me your hotel horror stories…