Must we celebrate gay weddings twice?
Apparently I’ve proposed to my civil partner. He claims that on BBC Radio 2, on the Jeremy Vine show (he…
No one else will say it. But right now, both Milband and Cameron are heroic
It is within the experience of even the humblest of MPs that those who oppose what you do will berate…
No one else will say it. But right now, both Milband and Cameron are heroic
It is within the experience of even the humblest of MPs that those who oppose what you do will berate…
Columnists are still partisan. Our readers aren’t
An email exchange with a Conservative-leaning friend this week left me feeling sheepish. But if shameful my behaviour be, I’m…
Columnists are still partisan. Our readers aren’t
An email exchange with a Conservative-leaning friend this week left me feeling sheepish. But if shameful my behaviour be, I’m…
If it’s a race that only one horse can win, am I wrong to want it to be mine?
Why is Christianity so unhelpful on the very ethical dilemma that most concerns ordinary people in our everyday lives? Why…
The day I awoke my inner predator
Gweru on the central Highveld of Zimbabwe used to be called Gwelo when I was there as a boy but…
Why Ukip is a party of extremists
Last Saturday I wrote for my newspaper a column whose drift was that it was time for the sane majority…
The wheat and the chaff of online comments
What’s to be done about the online comments sections in daily newspapers? These (for those estimable Spectator readers who have…
What do the innocent have to fear? Ask Google
Forgive me, but let’s go straight in. Readers of a sensitive disposition look away, but there’s a serious reason for…
