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
Thank heavens for Welby!
For decades, interventions of the Archbishop of Canterbury in national debate were like a sporadic bombardment of small pebbles against…
Portrait of the week
Home The government, expecting a backbench rebellion over the European Arrest Warrant, did not present it for a separate vote…
