Portrait of the week
Home King’s Cross railway station was out of operation, stranding thousands, and Paddington saw badly delayed services after Network Rail…
Reasons for Ed Miliband to be cheerful (we had to stretch a bit)
Election omens Reasons for Ed Miliband to feel confident in 2015: — Only three parliaments since 1945 have run to…
From the archives
From ‘News of the Week’, The Spectator, 2 January 1915: The first German aeroplanes which have visited us since the…
Letters: Why Ofsted should be disbanded
Disband Ofsted Sir: Dennis Sewell’s damning indictment of Ofsted (‘Ofsted in the dock’, 13 December) stopped short of the logical…
Why do the Liberal Democrats see the over-65s as a "time bomb"?
We are living longer, healthier and more prosperous lives than ever — it’s one of the greatest advances of our…
Portrait of the year
January Floods covered 28,000 acres of the Somerset Levels. Ukip suspended an Oxfordshire councillor for saying floods were God’s punishment…
100 years of Pyrex, processed cheese and nudes in movies
Marking a century Some things which celebrate their 100th birthday in 2015: 3-D films The first was shown at the…
From the archives
The Vantage Point of Peace
The transvestite, the fat cyclist and the woman from Chest Monthly: writers' tales of weird dates
Spectator writers and others on the path of romance
Books and arts
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The answers
So they say 1. President François Hollande of France 2. Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, of Nick Clegg, the…
