Jason Goodwin

Jason Goodwin: The £9 million-per-pylon removal programme has begun, and it's already revealed bizarre secrets

Our columnist writes about the unsuspected secrets revealed by a project to rid our prettiest skylines of electricity pylons.

Jason Goodwin: The Amazon delivery man who went up a driveway and came down a hill

Our columnist Jason Goodwin on the ups and downs of that most first world of problems: figuring out how to make sure you get your packages delivered.

Jason Goodwin: 'The envoys were plainly wrong, otherwise no one could have built the shopping centre at Elephant and Castle'

Our spectator columnist dwells on where wise men find beauty, from the Hagia Sophia to the the upper storey of Superdrug in Bridport.

Jason Goodwin: Naughty mandarins, the GIs who changed Chinese cooking and an app which almost beats reading

Our columnist picks not just his books of the year, but also his favourite app and YouTube video.

Jason Goodwin: ‘Sow is one of the mildest sweetest pigs ever. Boar is bigger, a gentleman and a scholar.'

Jason Goodwin muses over whether it's his moral duty to begin to keep pigs again, given the pork shortage soon to shake the globe.

Jason Goodwin: 'We have dropped the UFOs and the phantom social workers, just as we once dropped the fairies'

Our spectator columnist comments on the decline of UFO sightings.

Jason Goodwin: The second, little-known verse of our National Anthem

Our spectator columnist comments on this past Remembrance Sunday.

Jason Goodwin: 'They swerved, reversed direction and became a solid wall that struck Aphra at 30 miles an hour'

Our spectator columnist discusses the wonderful (and frightening) moments of owning a miniature poodle.

Jason Goodwin: 'Politicians need historians as much as kings need minstrels'

Jason Goodwin undertakes a family cycle ride along the Danube.

Jason Goodwin: 'In those days, the French government seemed to use sugar wrappers to effect social change'

Jason Goodwin speaks of collections – from stamps and bus tickets to sugar packets and mushrooms.

Jason Goodwin: 'Insofar as anything made of stainless steel can be considered a member of the family, I loved that pan like a brother'

Our spectator columnist Jason Goodwin dons his cape and ventures off to save the planet, one lifetime guarantee frying pan at a time.

Jason Goodwin: 'In Yorkshire he spat on them, down south he peed, either way, they aren’t good eating'

Jason Goodwin: 'Coleridge never stopped talking... Wordsworth was more private, more reflective, and finally, more successful'

Jason Goodwin remarks on how tracking one's pet past the boundaries of one's home is comparable to Coleridge's 'This Lime-tree Bower My Prison'.

Jason Goodwin: 'All he had to do is walk along the same street in his mind and sing out the objects as they cropped up'

Jason Goodwin: The unbeatable 10-minute, £10 haircut — and who cares what it looks like at the end?

More speed, less fuss. What more could you ask for from a barber, asks Jason Goodwin.

Jason Goodwin: Is the answer to finding faith really as simple as "fake it 'til you make it"?

The ancient Ottomans knew the power of repetition to shape the minds of others — something that Jason Good has discovered for himself.

Jason Goodwin: 'The flock widened and contracted, filling the whole sky with motion: expansive, pure theatre'

Our spectator columnist comments on the end of summer, as murmurations of wheeling and diving birds herald the beginning of a new season.

Jason Goodwin: How Jason's new and improved, curry-based hospital menu will save the NHS millions

'If chicken tikka masala is our national dish and the nation’s health matters, we should be proud to serve its milder, healthier cousins in our National Health Service.'

Jason Goodwin: Mysterious beach bones, lively ceilidhs and the other wonders of holidaying in the Western Isles

Jason Goodwin: The dark, chilly undercurrents in the seemingly-idyllic life of the English village

Jason Goodwin was feeling decidedly nostalgic for village life — until he had a run-in with one of its discontents.