Charles Moore

Charles Moore was editor of The Spectator 1984 - 1990. He continues to write a weekly column, The Spectator's Notes. You can read extracts of his column here.

The Spectator’s Notes

23 June 2016 2:00 am

Commentators have complained about this referendum — its ‘lies’, bad manners, bitterness. Without exactly disagreeing, I would nevertheless argue that…

The Spectator’s Notes

18 June 2016 9:00 am

The Remain campaign takes as its model the ‘No’ one in the 2014 Scottish referendum. First and last — hence…

The Spectator’s Notes

16 June 2016 1:00 pm

The Remain campaign takes as its model the ‘No’ one in the 2014 Scottish referendum. First and last — hence…

The Spectator’s Notes

11 June 2016 8:00 am

One of the most influential and learned figures in the British European debate is Rodney Leach. In the 1990s, he…

The Spectator’s Notes

9 June 2016 1:00 pm

One of the most influential and learned figures in the British European debate is Rodney Leach. In the 1990s, he…

The Spectator’s Notes

4 June 2016 9:00 am

‘No one can seriously deny that European integration brought an end to Franco-German conflict and has settled the German question…

The Spectator’s Notes

2 June 2016 1:00 pm

‘No one can seriously deny that European integration brought an end to Franco-German conflict and has settled the German question…

The Spectator’s notes

28 May 2016 9:00 am

Obviously there is no such thing as ‘Cameronism’, as there is ‘Thatcherism’; but once upon a time, David Cameron did…

The Spectator’s notes

26 May 2016 1:00 pm

Obviously there is no such thing as ‘Cameronism’, as there is ‘Thatcherism’; but once upon a time, David Cameron did…

The Spectator’s notes

14 May 2016 9:00 am

One of the many problems with David Cameron’s threat that leaving the European Union could plunge us into war is…

The Spectator’s notes

12 May 2016 1:00 pm

One of the many problems with David Cameron’s threat that leaving the European Union could plunge us into war is…

The Spectator’s notes

7 May 2016 9:00 am

The comparison between the referendum questions — that asked in 1975 and the one which we shall be asked on 23…

The Spectator’s notes

5 May 2016 1:00 pm

The comparison between the referendum questions — that asked in 1975 and the one which we shall be asked on 23…

The Spectator’s Notes

30 April 2016 9:00 am

‘England in effect is insular, she is maritime, she is linked through her interactions, her markets and her supply lines…

The Spectator’s Notes

28 April 2016 1:00 pm

‘England in effect is insular, she is maritime, she is linked through her interactions, her markets and her supply lines…

The Spectator’s notes

23 April 2016 9:00 am

The ‘remain’ campaign is having some success with the line that the ‘leave’ camp cannot say what Britain outside the…

The Spectator’s notes

21 April 2016 1:00 pm

The ‘remain’ campaign is having some success with the line that the ‘leave’ camp cannot say what Britain outside the…

The Spectator’s notes

16 April 2016 9:00 am

I don’t think there is a Royal College of Public Relations, but if there were, it should teach a course…

The Spectator’s notes

14 April 2016 1:00 pm

I don’t think there is a Royal College of Public Relations, but if there were, it should teach a course…

The Spectator’s notes

9 April 2016 9:00 am

However wicked tax evasion is and however distasteful some tax avoidance may be, people should imagine a world without tax…

The Spectator’s notes

7 April 2016 1:00 pm

However wicked tax evasion is and however distasteful some tax avoidance may be, people should imagine a world without tax…

The Spectator’s Notes

2 April 2016 9:00 am

You might expect that the murder of Christians would excite particular horror in countries of Christian heritage. Yet almost the…

George Bell in his study at Chichester Palace in 1943

Witness to the truth

2 April 2016 9:00 am

George Bell (1883–1958) was, in many respects, a typical Anglican prelate of his era. He went to Westminster and Christ…

The Spectator’s Notes

31 March 2016 2:00 pm

You might expect that the murder of Christians would excite particular horror in countries of Christian heritage. Yet almost the…

Spectator’s Notes

26 March 2016 9:00 am

Why have David Cameron and George Osborne overreached? Why are so many in their own party no longer disposed to…