Solution to 2608: Support
Reading the title as ‘backup’, unclued answers VOLTE-FACE, RETREAT, SPIN, TURN, COUNTER, BACKTRACK, WITHDRAWAL, ROTATE, RETIREMENT and RECOIL had to…
Letters
Teacher trouble Sir: Rod Liddle (‘The trouble with teachers’, 24 June) is quite correct in what he says about the…
Portrait of the Week
Home Boris Johnson, the former prime minister, was ritually buried by the House of Commons voting by 354 to seven…
Europe turns right
On her recent visit to Washington, shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves presented herself as the perfect candidate to be the next…
Birth rights
British politicians tend to avoid the issue of abortion. The subject divides America bitterly, yet Britain has opted for consensus.…
Britain must not import America’s abortion culture war
British politicians tend to avoid the issue of abortion. The subject divides America bitterly, yet Britain has opted for consensus.…
Don’t stifle AI
In his meeting with Joe Biden this week, Rishi Sunak proposed a research centre and regulatory body for artificial intelligence…
The politics of panic
It is 15 months since Sweden’s Coronavirus Commission presented its final report. The 770-page document analysed how the country handled…
Letters
Goodbye, Jeremy Each week I opened The Spectator at Low Life in part to read that brilliant column and, more…






























