Saving refugee lives
How should a country deal with refugees? This week the British government received an important legal vindication of its approach:…
Barometer
Knight falls There were calls for Sir Philip Green to be stripped of his knighthood. Who is stripped of such…
Entrenched wisdom
From ‘Armour of offence’, The Spectator, 5 August 1916: The soldier must never forget that it is his business to…
Letters
Remain calm Sir: I am sorry that the redoubtable Martha Lane Fox is still angry at the exaggerations made by…
Portrait of the week
Home The Court of Appeal overturned a ruling that four Syrian refugees living in Calais’ jungle camp could come to…
Slippery slope
Australia is heading further and further down a slippery slope. And the danger of an ugly pile-up at the end…
Slippery slope
Australia is heading further and further down a slippery slope. And the danger of an ugly pile-up at the end…
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Portrait of the week
Home The collapse of BHS after Sir Philip Green had extracted large sums and left the business on ‘life support’,…
Barometer
Capitalist faces A report by the Business and Pensions select committees described Philip Green as the ‘unacceptable face of capitalism’.…
The new Secretary for War
From ‘The military situation’, The Spectator, 29 July 1916: We have a new Secretary for War. Mr Lloyd George, as we all…
Letters
Better Europeans Sir: There are many reasons why a majority of people in the UK voted to leave the European…
Hope vs gloom
For all Gordon Brown’s economic mistakes, he at least tried to build confidence in the British economy. In the build-up…
Hope vs gloom
For all Gordon Brown’s economic mistakes, he at least tried to build confidence in the British economy. In the build-up…
Barometer
Capitalist faces A report by the Business and Pensions select committees described Philip Green as the ‘unacceptable face of capitalism’.…
The new Secretary for War
From ‘The military situation’, The Spectator, 29 July 1916: We have a new Secretary for War. Mr Lloyd George, as we all…
Letters
Better Europeans Sir: There are many reasons why a majority of people in the UK voted to leave the European…
Portrait of the week
Home The collapse of BHS after Sir Philip Green had extracted large sums and left the business on ‘life support’,…
Cover 30 July 2016
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Portrait of the week
Home Theresa May made a speech in the open air in Downing Street after kissing hands with the Queen as…
Barometer
How Britannia got her trident Parliament voted to renew Trident as Britain’s independent nuclear deterrent. But what about Britannia and…
Over the top
From ‘The Battle of the Somme’, The Spectator, 22 July 1916: What we seldom hear about is what Milton called the ‘raw…
Letters
Our terrified youth Sir: Both Claire Fox’s ‘Generation Snowflake’ and Mary Wakefield’s recent column (What’s to blame for a generation’s…
Theresa’s first mistake
Helga Hunter met her husband Michael when he was a Scots Guardsman serving in Münster in 1968. She moved back…
