Cut the claptrap
So far the campaign for the EU referendum has resembled a contest as to which side can spin the most…
Barometer
European bogeymen Michael Gove said ‘remain’ campaigners were spreading tales of bogeymen. But what is a bogeyman? Appropriately enough, the…
Duty calls
From ‘The Volunteer Training Corps’, The Spectator, 8 April 1916: If we were the Government, we would state plainly that in the…
Letters
Safe keeping? Sir: James Delingpole will be relieved to hear that not everyone follows the fashion for demanding repatriation of…
Portrait of the week
Home George Osborne, the Chancellor, said that if Britain left the European Union, households would be on average £4,300 a…
Fit to print
For weeks, Westminster has been full of rumours about the private life of a certain cabinet member. It was said…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, after spending a week parrying questions about his late father’s investment fund Blairmore, suddenly…
Barometer
Boss cuts The chief executive of the Co-operative Group, Richard Pennycock, asked for a pay cut, saying his job had…
All quiet on the Western Front
From ‘Observing: an average day’, The Spectator, 15 April 1916: 5.10 a.m. The signaller on duty at the telephone has just said…
