Swing time
The age of two-party politics is over: we know that because everyone keeps saying so. We are entering an era…
Portrait of the week
Home Tony Blair, the former prime minister, opposed a referendum on membership of the EU. In a speech at Sedgefield…
Barometer
The Scottish way of death Nicola Sturgeon said the SNP would block a rise in the state pension age on…
Before Dad’s Army
From ‘Our Home Guards’, The Spectator, 10 April 1915: There is nothing of the national picnic; or of playing at soldiers…
Books and arts
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Swing time
The age of two-party politics is over: we know that because everyone keeps saying so. We are entering an era…
Barometer
The Scottish way of death Nicola Sturgeon said the SNP would block a rise in the state pension age on…
Before Dad’s Army
From ‘Our Home Guards’, The Spectator, 10 April 1915: There is nothing of the national picnic; or of playing at soldiers…
Portrait of the week
Home Tony Blair, the former prime minister, opposed a referendum on membership of the EU. In a speech at Sedgefield…
Passion, please
When launching the Conservatives’ campaign this week, David Cameron told party activists that the general election was ‘on a knife…
