Spare us a Bob?
Anyone listening to the BBC this week could be forgiven for thinking that the musician Bob Geldof had just emerged…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said: ‘Red warning lights are once again flashing on the dashboard of the global…
Barometer
Yeah, Bob, they know The answer to the rhetorical question posed by the Band Aid single, ‘Do they know it’s…
From the archives
From ‘News of the Week’, The Spectator, 21 November 1914: We are glad to learn that the laudable persistence of…
Letters
Let’s subsidise weddings Sir: Fraser Nelson (‘Marrying money’, 15 November) points out that marriages tend to last longer than cohabitations and…
Books and arts
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Books of the Year
A further selection of the best and most overrated books of 2014, chosen by some of our regular reviewers
