Internships at The Spectator for summer 2017 – no CVs, please

We’re looking for interns to spend a week or two with us here at The Spectator. We tend to get over a hundred applications for about a dozen places, and take the process seriously. Several of our recruits (Camilla Swift, Alex Massie, Sebastian Payne) first came through our doors as interns: when we have a vacancy, we normally ask back the best intern of the year. We take an unusual approach in that we don’t want to see your CV. We don’t want to know where, or even whether, you went to university. Frank Johnson was a superb editor of this magazine and he left school aged 16. The only thing that matters in journalism is flair, imagination, work ethic and enthusiasm: skills that you can’t really learn in any classroom. We’re not looking for writers, per se: The Spectator is blessed with a large number of brilliant writers whose skills we can call upon.