From the archives
From ‘The giving up of Louvain to “Military Execution”,’ The Spectator, 5 September 1914: Germany has dealt herself the hardest…
Letters
Advice for Cameron Sir: David Cameron once saved my life from a school of Portuguese man o’ war jellyfish, so…
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Rotten borough
If Rotherham council were a family, its children would have been removed by social services long ago, and Ma and…
Portrait of the Week
Home Theresa May, the Home Secretary, said that Britons who went to Syria or Iraq to fight could be stripped…
Barometer
Not in their name The BBC decided to start calling the Islamic terror group Isis by the acronym IS instead.…
From the archives
From ‘Left behind’, The Spectator, 29 August 1914: In the poorer streets a kind of holiday atmosphere prevails, and a sort…
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