Isis rising
Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/michaelgovesfightforjustice/media.mp3 In recent months, as the country went through a general election, our focus has been on our own…
Barometer
Cake discrimination A bakery in Northern Ireland was found guilty of discriminating against a gay couple for whom it refused…
National government
From ‘A National Government’, Spectator, 22 May 1915: When we wrote last week there seemed little possibility that our hopes…
Portrait of the week
Home The annual rate of inflation turned negative in April, for the first time since 1960, with deflation of 0.1…
'One nation' politics works. Just ask Nicola Sturgeon
As David Cameron lined up beside Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband at the Cenotaph on the day after the general…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, soon got used to the surprise of the Conservatives being returned in the general…
How Spain got blamed for the Spanish flu — and where to find Ebola on a map
Plagued by stigma The World Health Organisation told doctors to stop naming diseases after people, places and animals so as…
A war crime – and a president’s dilemma
From ‘Germany and the United States’, The Spectator, 15 May 1915: The text of President Wilson’s Note to Germany on the…
Books and arts
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