The EU must change
David Cameron’s attempt to renegotiate Britain’s EU membership has served as a powerful reminder of the case for leaving. The…
Barometer
Selling with honesty An Essex estate agent sold a flat in Westcliff-on-Sea for £22,500 over the £125,000 asking price after…
Equality in the trenches
From ‘War the leveller’, The Spectator, 12 February 1916: Strange as it may appear to the pacificist, war has levelled up,…
Letters
Governmental ignorance Sir: Your leading article (13 February) blames junior doctors for playing with lives in their dispute; but what…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, spent time in Brussels before a meeting of the European Council to see what…
Flying doctors
A few months ago, paramedics were on the brink of industrial action. They had legitimate grievances. Ambulance services were being…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said that if Britain left the European Union, France could stop allowing British officials…
Barometer
Matters of life and death Lord Lucan is now officially presumed dead. How do you have someone declared dead? In…
France in ruins
From ‘Marching through France’, The Spectator, 12 February 1916: Finally we came to the trenches themselves, and all around was…
