Barometer
Bottling out Does any country have experience of a sugary drinks tax? — Denmark introduced a tax on sweetened soft…
Flying start
From ‘Common-sense and the command of the air’, The Spectator, 25 March 1916: The Air Service will be the great fighting…
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The jihad continues
On Tuesday morning Belgium was the latest European country to suffer a major terrorist attack. It is a disturbing reminder…
Barometer
Bottling out Does any country have experience of a sugary drinks tax? — Denmark introduced a tax on sweetened soft…
Flying start
From ‘Common-sense and the command of the air’, The Spectator, 25 March 1916: The Air Service will be the great fighting…
Letters
PC and abortion Sir: It is heartwarming that Simon Barnes’s son should not suffer the stigma experienced by those with…
Portrait of the week
Home Iain Duncan Smith resigned as Work and Pensions Secretary two days after the Budget, throwing the government into a…
Why Trump prevailed
The political climate that brought about his rise is in fact a worldwide phenomenon
Portrait of the week
Home In the Budget, George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, kept talking of the ‘next generation’. He outlined cuts…
Barometer
Name that town The representative of Slough in the UK Youth Parliament called for the town’s name to be changed…
