The Spectator

Portrait of the week

23 May 2015 9:00 am

Home The annual rate of inflation turned negative in April, for the first time since 1960, with deflation of 0.1…

Barometer

23 May 2015 9:00 am

Cake discrimination A bakery in Northern Ireland was found guilty of discriminating against a gay couple for whom it refused…

National government

23 May 2015 9:00 am

From ‘A National Government’, Spectator, 22 May 1915: When we wrote last week there seemed little possibility that our hopes…

Letters

23 May 2015 9:00 am

Soldiering on Sir: Max Hastings’s article about demobbed army officers trying for a job after the war struck a chord…

Claude Monet Space, Naoshima

Books & arts

23 May 2015 9:00 am

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‘Isn’t it time you went out and got yourself a proper nose job?’

Nosejob

23 May 2015 9:00 am

‘You’re supposed to be horrified to see me, not ask for a selfie.’

Wake

23 May 2015 9:00 am

‘Oh dear, didn’t you bring your phone…?’

Dinner party

23 May 2015 9:00 am

Front garden

23 May 2015 9:00 am

‘We’ve come out of the closet.’

Lion

23 May 2015 9:00 am

‘Let’s become a do tank!’

Think tank

23 May 2015 9:00 am

Selfie stick insect

Stick insect

23 May 2015 9:00 am

‘No, darling — it’s for filling with sand, not rattling at people for money.’

Bucket

23 May 2015 9:00 am

‘The pack would like to talk to you about your new friend, son.’

Son

23 May 2015 9:00 am

Trafficking

23 May 2015 9:00 am

‘Martin’s mindfulness classes have taught him to be aware of what’s going on in his body.’

Red wine

23 May 2015 9:00 am

Isis rising

21 May 2015 1:00 pm

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

21 May 2015 1:00 pm

Cake discrimination A bakery in Northern Ireland was found guilty of discriminating against a gay couple for whom it refused…

National government

21 May 2015 1:00 pm

From ‘A National Government’, Spectator, 22 May 1915: When we wrote last week there seemed little possibility that our hopes…

Portrait of the week

21 May 2015 1:00 pm

Home The annual rate of inflation turned negative in April, for the first time since 1960, with deflation of 0.1…

Cameron’s new mission

16 May 2015 9:00 am

As David Cameron lined up beside Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband at the Cenotaph on the day after the general…

Portrait of the week

16 May 2015 9:00 am

Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, soon got used to the surprise of the Conservatives being returned in the general…

Barometer

16 May 2015 9:00 am

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

16 May 2015 9:00 am

From ‘Germany and the United States’, The Spectator, 15 May 1915: The text of President Wilson’s Note to Germany on the…

‘Spearfisher’, 2015, by Peter Doig

Books and arts

16 May 2015 9:00 am

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