Editing The Spectator (section)

==Contributors==<!-- New links in alphabetical order please -->
In addition to the permanent staff of writers, other contributors included:
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*[[Larry Adler]], the mouth organist, wrote several articles for ''The Spectator'' in the 1970s during Harold Creighton's editorship.
*[[Jani Allan]], the British-born South African journalist, was a ''Spectator'' correspondent in the 1990s.<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/jani-allan-bites-back-at-ferret-1541792.html "Jani Allan bites back at 'ferret'"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170909142014/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/jani-allan-bites-back-at-ferret-1541792.html |date=9 September 2017 }}, ''The Independent'', 22 August 1992.</ref><ref>[http://www.anti-communistanalyst.com/12222004.html "The case of George Soros"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090501140439/http://www.anti-communistanalyst.com/12222004.html |date=1 May 2009 }}, 22 December 2004.</ref>
*[[Kingsley Amis]] wrote his first ''Spectator'' articles in the 1950s after Walter Taplin became editor. He maintained a close relationship with the magazine for the rest of his life, contributing articles, book reviews and short stories until his death in 1995. His last published words appeared in ''The Spectator''.
*[[Bruce Anderson (columnist)|Bruce Anderson]] is the magazine's current columnist on drink.
*[[Clement Attlee]]
*[[W. H. Auden]]
*[[Iris Barry]] was a pioneering film critic in the 1920s.
*[[H. E. Bates]]
*[[William Beach Thomas]]
*[[Jeffrey Bernard]] wrote the "Low Life" column, recounting tales of a debauched and insalubrious life spent largely in the vicinity of the Coach and Horses pub in Soho, London.
*[[John Betjeman]] joined the magazine in 1954 to write his "City and Suburban" column.
*[[Craig Brown (satirist)|Craig Brown]] wrote a humorous column from 1988, in the persona of the right-wing, pipe-smoking Wallace Arnold.
*[[Quentin Blake]]
*[[Anthony Blunt]]
*[[John Buchan]] became leader writer in 1901, and was assistant editor from 1907 to 1907.
*[[Rab Butler]]
*[[Thomas Carlyle]]
*[[G. K. Chesterton]]
*[[Randolph Churchill]]
*[[Alan Clark]]
*[[Ross Clark (journalist)|Ross Clark]]
*[[John Cleese]] acted as 'Contributing Editor' ten days after the [[Ides of March]] 2009.
*[[Nick Cohen]]
*[[Joan Collins]] has often contributed as a Guest Diarist.
*[[Charles John Cornish]]
*[[Patrick Cosgrave]], appointed political editor in 1971, and acting editor from 1973 to 1975, used his weekly column to undermine Edward Heath's premiership and was an early supporter of Margaret Thatcher in her bid to lead the Conservative Party. He left the Spectator to become Thatcher's special advisor upon her victory in 1975.
*[[James Delingpole]]
*[[A. V. Dicey]]
*[[Alec Douglas-Home]]
*[[Terry Eagleton]]
*[[Franklin Einspruch]]
*[[T. S. Eliot]]
*[[Robert Ensor]]
*[[Henry Fairlie]]
*[[Duncan Fallowell]] has been a regular contributor since 1970.
*[[Ian Fleming]]
*[[Peter Fleming (writer)|Peter Fleming]], usually under the pseudonym "Strix", wrote regularly from 1931, when he joined as assistant literary editor until his death in 1971.
*[[E. M. Forster]]
*[[Clement Freud]]
*[[Gabriel García Márquez]]
*[[A. A. Gill]]
*[[Charles Glass]], former ABC News Chief Middle East Correspondent and author, has written for the magazine since 1983.
*[[Tanya Gold]] is the magazine's current food columnist.
*[[William Golding]]
*[[Freddy Gray (journalist)|Freddy Gray]]
*[[Dominic Green (writer and musician)|Dominic Green]], deputy editor of Spectator USA.
*[[Graham Greene]] was Literary Editor and cinema critic in the 1930s. His film reviews in particular have since come to be regarded as "some of the most trenchant reviews of his or indeed any other time".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Adrian |first=Wootton |date=3 July 2004 |title=Crime Pays |work=The Guardian}}</ref>
*[[Germaine Greer]] has been a frequent contributor and was even offered the editorship after Alexander Chancellor. She declined because "she was not the right person for the job".{{citation needed|date=July 2013}}
*[[Garth Hamilton]], contributor to ''The Spectator Australia''
*[[Donald Hankey]] – author of the celebrated essays on the [[First World War]] which appeared first in ''The Spectator'' under his pseudonym, ''A Student in Arms''.
*[[Thomas Hardy]]
*[[Ian Hislop]]
*[[Christopher Hitchens]] wrote regular articles from Washington in the 1980s.
*[[Richard Hughes (British writer)|Richard Hughes]] reviewed literature and published poetry in the 1920s.
*[[Ted Hughes]] contributed poetry in the 1950s.
*[[Thomas Hughes]]
*[[Barry Humphries]] was a frequent Guest Diarist.
*[[Leigh Hunt]]
*[[Aldous Huxley]]
*[[Clive James]]
*[[Roy Jenkins]]
*[[Paul Johnson (writer)|Paul Johnson]] wrote a media column from 1981, which later became 'And Another Thing' with a more general brief.
*[[Ludovic Kennedy]]
*[[Mary Killen]]'s "Dear Mary" column gives advice on etiquette.
*[[Rudyard Kipling]]
*[[Philip Larkin]] began to contribute poems and reviews to ''The Spectator'' in 1953.
*[[T. E. Lawrence]]
*[[Nigella Lawson]] began writing a restaurant column under Charles Moore's editorship in the 1980s.
*[[F. R. Leavis]]
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*[[Patrick Leigh-Fermor]]
*[[Bernard Levin]], as "Taper", wrote "one of the most coruscating, witty and at times withering columns in ''The Spectator'''s history"<ref>{{Cite book |last=Courtauld |first=Simon |title=To Convey Intelligence: ''The Spectator'' 1928–1998 |publisher=Profile Books Ltd |year=1999}}</ref> from 1956 to 1962.
*[[C. S. Lewis]]
*[[Rod Liddle]]
*[[David Lloyd George]]
*[[Malcolm MacColl]]
*[[Rose Macaulay]]
*[[Ramsay Macdonald]]
*[[Dorothea Mackellar]] contributed her poem “[[My Country]]” (1908).
*[[Harold Macmillan]]
*[[Noel Malcolm]]
*[[Thomas Mann]]
*[[Hilary Mantel]] became the paper's film critic in 1987.
*[[Jonathan Marsden (art historian)|Jonathan Marsden]]
*[[John Masefield]]
*[[Anne McElvoy]]
*[[Luke McShane]] has been the chess columnist since October 2019.
*[[James Michie]] ran ''The Spectator'''s competition page in the 1990s and 2000s under the pseudonym 'Jaspistos'.
*[[John Stuart Mill]]
*[[Jonathan Miller]]
*[[Charles Moore (journalist)|Charles Moore]] has provided the "Spectator's Notes" for the past three decades
*[[Iris Murdoch]]
*[[Douglas Murray (author)|Douglas Murray]]
*[[Shiva Naipaul]]
*[[Harold Nicolson]]
*[[Seán Ó Faoláin]]
*[[Peter Oborne]]
*[[Edna O'Brien]]
*[[Brendan O'Neill (journalist)|Brendan O'Neill]]
*[[John Osborne]] was a frequent guest diarist towards the end of his life, most notably for the 1994 Christmas issue, when he complained of 'yet another mystery ailment' and died on Christmas Eve that year.
*[[Tony Palmer (director)|Tony Palmer]] wrote the controversial 'Notes from the Underground' column in the early 1970s.
*[[Michael Paraskos]] art and literary critic
*[[Matthew Parris]]
*[[Jennifer Paterson]], one of the [[Two Fat Ladies]], cooked for weekly lunches at ''The Spectator'' in the 1980s, and from 1984 until her death in 1999 wrote a food column in the magazine. Two of her books were culled from these columns.
*[[Kim Philby]]
*[[Harold Pinter]]
*[[William Plomer]]
*[[Sylvia Plath]] contributed poetry in the 1950s.
*[[Jane Solomon]] author of [[Hotel 167]] contributed poetry from 2018 onwards.
*[[James Pope-Hennessy]]
*[[Enoch Powell]]
*[[V. S. Pritchett]]
*[[Ian Rankin]]
*[[Matt Ridley]]
*[[Hugo Rifkind]]
*[[William Michael Rossetti]] was art critic in the 1850s. He oversaw the first discussion of the [[Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood]] in the national media.
*[[Bertrand Russell]]
*[[Gilbert Ryle]]
*[[Siegfried Sassoon]]
*[[Roger Scruton]]
*[[Lionel Shriver]]
*[[George Bernard Shaw]]
*[[John Simpson (journalist)|John Simpson]] wrote ''The Spectator''{{'}}s weekly reports on the Gulf War when he was also the BBC's reporter in Baghdad.
*[[Nicholas Soames]] was wine critic in the early 2000s.
*[[Stephen Spender]] was a literary reviewer in the 1940s.
*[[Gavin Stamp]]
*[[Mark Steyn]] was film critic in the 1990s.
*[[Algernon Charles Swinburne]] reviewed literature and published poetry in the 1860s.
*[[Taki Theodoracopulos]], or simply 'Taki', started writing his 'High Life' column in 1977 as an answer to Jeffrey Bernard's 'Low Life'. The pairing continues today, since 'Low Life' has been revived by Jeremy Clarke.
*[[G. M. Trevelyan]]
*[[Hugh Trevor-Roper]] was an occasional reviewer and, under the pseudonym Mercurius Oxoniensis, began an irregular humorous column about Oxford academia in the late 1960s.
*[[Kenneth Tynan]] wrote theatre reviews for ''The Spectator'' in the 1950s.
*[[T. E. Utley]]
*[[Alexander Voltz]], contributor to ''The Spectator Australia''
*[[Edward Gibbon Wakefield]]
*[[Auberon Waugh]] became political editor in 1967.
*[[Evelyn Waugh]] first began contributing to ''The Spectator'' in the 1930s.
*[[H. G. Wells]]
*[[Katharine Whitehorn]]
*[[A. N. Wilson]] was Literary Editor until his dismissal in 1983.
*[[Peregrine Worsthorne]]
*[[W. B. Yeats]]
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