Sir Ivan’s exit
The wonder about Sir Ivan Rogers’s resignation as Britain’s ambassador to the EU is that he was still in the…
Portrait of the week
Home Sir Ivan Rogers, Britain’s ambassador to the EU, resigned; he had been expected to play an important part in…
Letters
Yet another kind of snob Sir: May I offer another definition of a ‘snob’ to the one described by Bryan…
Sir Ivan’s exit
The wonder about Sir Ivan Rogers’s resignation as Britain’s ambassador to the EU is that he was still in the…
Barometer
Village people The government announced plans for 14 ‘garden villages’. The concept of a garden city or village is attributed…
A killing to celebrate
From ‘News of the Week’, The Spectator, 6 January 1917: The war has been crowded with romantic adventures by sea…
Letters
Yet another kind of snob Sir: May I offer another definition of a ‘snob’ to the one described by Bryan…
Portrait of the week
Home Sir Ivan Rogers, Britain’s ambassador to the EU, resigned; he had been expected to play an important part in…
Keep the press free
It is said that the case for freedom of expression needs to be restated in every generation, but things move…
Barometer
Supremely exciting The nation awaits with bated breath the decision of the Supreme Court on whether the government can exercise…
These little islands
From ‘Engage the enemy more closely!’, The Spectator, 30 December 1916: Britain was never more vigorous than she is now:…
Letters
Unencumbered Sir: Matthew Parris’s bizarre reference (‘Unforgiven’, 10 December) to the UK economy as merely ‘medium-sized’ is a classic instance…
