The Spectator

‘The doctor said I should get more sunshine, so I took up smoking.’

Street

8 August 2015 9:00 am

Edward Heath conducting the annual carol concert at the Grand Ballroom, Broadstairs, Kent in 1963. (Photo: Erich Auerbach/Hulton Archive/Getty)

Ted talk

6 August 2015 1:00 pm

There was a grim inevitability that the name Edward Heath would one day be trawled up in connection with allegations…

Barometer

6 August 2015 1:00 pm

Rogue traders Former UBS trader Tom Hayes was jailed for 14 years for rigging the Libor market. How long could…

British soldiers having wounds treated in an underground dressing station by the Menin Road in France. (Photo by Frank Hurley/Three Lions/Getty Images)

One year on

6 August 2015 1:00 pm

From ‘The End of the First Year’, The Spectator, 7 August 1915: Terrible as have been the sufferings caused by the…

Portrait of the week

6 August 2015 1:00 pm

Home Tom Hayes, aged 35, a former City trader who rigged the Libor rates daily for nearly four years while…

House in order

1 August 2015 9:00 am

The shaming of Lord Sewel was a classic tabloid exposé. The fact that a peer of the realm (albeit one…

Portrait of the week

1 August 2015 9:00 am

Home A man died when 1,500 migrants tried to enter the Channel Tunnel terminal in Calais in one night. The…

Barometer

1 August 2015 9:00 am

Safe house Lord Sewel is unique in leaving the House of Lords in disgrace. Until the House of Lords Reform…

Out of service

1 August 2015 9:00 am

From ‘The new standard’, The Spectator, 24 July 1915: If a change must be made at all, it is worthwhile to…

Letters

1 August 2015 9:00 am

What we’re building Sir: I was surprised and frustrated to read Ross Clark’s piece on housing associations in last week’s…

Lord

1 August 2015 9:00 am

‘Ne’er cast a clout till July be out….’

Rain

1 August 2015 9:00 am

Campaigners

1 August 2015 9:00 am

‘I can understand why Speaker Bercow doesn’t like walking — he’s only got little legs’

Dogs

1 August 2015 9:00 am

‘God wears a Rolex!’

God

1 August 2015 9:00 am

‘I don’t get it — my owner can’t get enough of that stuff either.’

Owner

1 August 2015 9:00 am

‘Dad, Dad — I’m homophobic.’

Dad

1 August 2015 9:00 am

‘I love the work you pass off as yours.’

Pass

1 August 2015 9:00 am

Report

1 August 2015 9:00 am

‘He’s the last Frenchman to win the Tour de France — taken from the original Daguerreotype.’

Picture

1 August 2015 9:00 am

‘Some embarrassing photos have emerged of us with a peer of the realm.’

Lamppost

1 August 2015 9:00 am

‘Giving people money is very popular with people we give money to.’

Graph

1 August 2015 9:00 am

‘Three units of pinot grigio, Max.’

Bar

1 August 2015 9:00 am

‘Are you sure you want to join the Labour party?’

Fight

1 August 2015 9:00 am

House in order

30 July 2015 1:00 pm

The shaming of Lord Sewel was a classic tabloid exposé. The fact that a peer of the realm (albeit one…