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

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…

Spectator’s Notes

23 March 2016 3:00 pm

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

The Spectator’s notes

19 March 2016 9:00 am

Do Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Bashar Assad support ‘leave’ or ‘remain’ in Britain’s EU referendum? I ask because they are…

The Spectator’s notes

17 March 2016 3:00 pm

Do Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Bashar Assad support ‘leave’ or ‘remain’ in Britain’s EU referendum? I ask because they are…

The Spectator’s notes

12 March 2016 9:00 am

Surely there is a difference between Mark Carney’s intervention in the Scottish referendum last year and in the EU one…

The Spectator’s notes

10 March 2016 3:00 pm

Surely there is a difference between Mark Carney’s intervention in the Scottish referendum last year and in the EU one…

The Spectator’s notes

5 March 2016 9:00 am

The government, or at least David Cameron’s bit of it, seems to think that trade is something that takes place…

The Spectator’s notes

3 March 2016 3:00 pm

The government, or at least David Cameron’s bit of it, seems to think that trade is something that takes place…

The Spectator’s notes

27 February 2016 9:00 am

One of the oddest features of the cabinet majority for staying in the EU is that almost no one in…

The Spectator’s notes

25 February 2016 3:00 pm

One of the oddest features of the cabinet majority for staying in the EU is that almost no one in…

The Spectator’s Notes

20 February 2016 9:00 am

In his authoritative biography of Pope John Paul II, George Weigel writes lucidly about the unlucid subject of phenomenology. It…

The Spectator’s Notes

18 February 2016 3:00 pm

In his authoritative biography of Pope John Paul II, George Weigel writes lucidly about the unlucid subject of phenomenology. It…