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The Spectator’s Notes

19 November 2015 3:00 pm

When Jeremy Corbyn says it is better to bring people to trial than to shoot them, he is right. So…

Watching Republicans has never been so fun. But voting for them…

14 November 2015 9:00 am

Washington DC A friend of mine asked his father, aged 82: ‘Dad, at this stage of life, what do you…

Charles Moore’s Notes: Who’d be a diplomat now?

14 November 2015 9:00 am

The other day, a friend told me, he had been chatting to an old friend of his who has spent…

It’s not just the Russians – there is no morality in top-level sport

14 November 2015 9:00 am

Why do transgendered people need separate toilets? I thought, according to the prevalent orthodoxy, that the new gender they had…

Here’s what’s wrong with the ‘public sector ethos’

14 November 2015 9:00 am

An infuriating benefit of readers’ online comments beneath the efforts of a columnist like me is that as you read…

The answer for sensible moderate Labour folk? Leave

14 November 2015 9:00 am

What a useless shower the Labour party is right now. What a snivelling dance of fools. And I don’t just…

If the world economy crashes again, blame the central bankers

14 November 2015 9:00 am

Like the Christmas pudding sampled by Hercule Poirot at Kings Lacey — but six weeks early — our Spectator Money…

If the world economy crashes again, blame the central bankers

12 November 2015 3:00 pm

Like the Christmas pudding sampled by Hercule Poirot at Kings Lacey — but six weeks early — our Spectator Money…

The answer for sensible, moderate Labour folk is simple. Just leave

12 November 2015 3:00 pm

What a useless shower the Labour party is right now. What a snivelling dance of fools. And I don’t just…

Here’s what’s wrong with the ‘public sector ethos’

12 November 2015 3:00 pm

An infuriating benefit of readers’ online comments beneath the efforts of a columnist like me is that as you read…

Donald Trump and the Republican cabaret show

12 November 2015 3:00 pm

Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/jeremyhunt-scatastrophicmistake/media.mp3 Washington DC A friend of mine asked his father, aged 82: ‘Dad, at this stage of life, what…

Charles Moore’s Notes: Who’d be a diplomat now?

12 November 2015 3:00 pm

The other day, a friend told me, he had been chatting to an old friend of his who has spent…

Of course there’s no morality in top-level sport

12 November 2015 3:00 pm

Why do transgendered people need separate toilets? I thought, according to the prevalent orthodoxy, that the new gender they had…

A Commons consensus on bombing Syria is further away than ever

7 November 2015 9:00 am

David Cameron doesn’t do regret. It is not in his nature to sit and fret about decisions that he has…

Charles Moore’s Notes: Why the V&A needs Thatcher’s clothes

7 November 2015 9:00 am

It is good to learn that the current management of the V&A want to reverse their predecessors’ lack of interest…

The ME lobby is just a symptom of our stupidity about mental illness

7 November 2015 9:00 am

Do you ever wake up worried that you have tiny fibres growing beneath your skin, all along your spinal column?…

Why should we listen to Benedict Cumberbatch on Syrian refugees?

7 November 2015 9:00 am

Because I just don’t know what to think about the Syrian refugee crisis — not even after Simon Schama’s powerfully…

Maybe bitcoin isn’t the work of the devil, after all

7 November 2015 9:00 am

I confess to being an out-and-out Luddite when it comes to bitcoin and other so-called crypto-currencies. To the extent that…

I may have to revise my view that crypto-currencies are Satan’s work

5 November 2015 3:00 pm

I confess to being an out-and-out Luddite when it comes to bitcoin and other so-called crypto-currencies. To the extent that…

Why should we listen to Benedict Cumberbatch on Syrian refugees?

5 November 2015 3:00 pm

Because I just don’t know what to think about the Syrian refugee crisis — not even after Simon Schama’s powerfully…

Cameron’s Syrian stew

5 November 2015 3:00 pm

Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/civilwarinthecatholicchurch/media.mp3 David Cameron doesn’t do regret. It is not in his nature to sit and fret about decisions that…

The Spectator’s notes

5 November 2015 3:00 pm

It is good to learn that the current management of the V&A want to reverse their predecessors’ lack of interest…

Why can’t we get our minds around ME?

5 November 2015 3:00 pm

Do you ever wake up worried that you have tiny fibres growing beneath your skin, all along your spinal column?…

TalkTalk shows us the internet is only three clicks from anarchy

29 October 2015 3:00 pm

I’m not a customer of TalkTalk, the phone company which revealed last week that a hacker had potentially compromised the…

Are we all potential cyberterrorists now?

29 October 2015 3:00 pm

Hollywood got there first, of course. Back in 1983, before most of us even learned — then forgot again —…