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Hard Brexit, soft sterling and a glimpse of the Night Manager across the water
This column comes from Puerto Pollensa in Majorca, my favourite off-season watering-hole. The hotel is full of elderly Daily Mail…
Is that a bomb in your pocket? Or a spy? Or both?
Remember how much fun it used to be getting a new phone? I think of a friend a few years…
Will Brexit butcher the banks?
The financial crisis defines our age. It helps explain everything from the presidential nomination of Donald Trump to Jeremy Corbyn’s…
The Spectator’s Notes
Given all the outrageous things that Donald Trump has done and said already, why has he got into so much…
Tory Theresa is Blue Labour at heart
I never really agreed with the central-thesis of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — that ‘42’ is the answer…
Theresa’s Tory love-in
Theresa May doesn’t use an autocue for her speeches. She feels that reading off a screen at the back of…
The Spectator’s Notes
Birmingham Checking in to my hotel room on the 18th floor, for the Conservative party conference here, I opened the…
The new reality on immigration
The good people of Hungary went to the polls on Sunday and voted by more than 98 per cent against…
I want my Brexit good and strong
What you really should have done if you were in Birmingham on Monday this week was skip the not notably…
Brexit spooks the markets, but the housing crisis will swing more votes
‘I rang and said can I have a council house, I’ve nowhere to go, an’ the bloke said no you…
Brexit spooks the markets, but the housing crisis will swing more votes
‘I rang and said can I have a council house, I’ve nowhere to go, an’ the bloke said no you…
I want my Brexit good and strong
What you really should have done if you were in Birmingham on Monday this week was skip the not notably…
Theresa’s Tory love-in
Theresa May doesn’t use an autocue for her speeches. She feels that reading off a screen at the back of…
The Spectator’s Notes
Birmingham Checking in to my hotel room on the 18th floor, for the Conservative party conference here, I opened the…
The parenting trap
Out of the fog of rumour and accusation surrounding the melancholy break-up of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, one source…
The new reality on immigration
The good people of Hungary went to the polls on Sunday and voted by more than 98 per cent against…
The Spectator’s Notes
Mathias Döpfner, the extremely tall, extremely intelligent head of Axel Springer, is unusual in the generally conformist German business elite…
Let’s bring the wolves back into Britain
A year ago there was a confirmed sighting, and even film, of a wild wolf in the Netherlands for the…
We know who Theresa May is against. But who is she for?
One of the professional drawbacks of coming from Scotland and then moving to London is that I don’t really know…
Let the metropolitan elite lead the way
How does one join the Liberal Metro-politan Elite? What should be the qualifications? I must be an LME member because…
If Deutsche Bank goes down without a bailout, I really will eat my hat
‘Can anyone seriously imagine the German state and corporate establishment allowing the bank that bears their country’s name to go…
If Deutsche Bank goes down without a bailout, I really will eat my hat
‘Can anyone seriously imagine the German state and corporate establishment allowing the bank that bears their country’s name to go…
We know who Theresa May is against. But who is she for?
One of the professional drawbacks of coming from Scotland and then moving to London is that I don’t really know…
Let the metropolitan elite lead the way
How does one join the Liberal Metro-politan Elite? What should be the qualifications? I must be an LME member because…
The Spectator’s Notes
Mathias Döpfner, the extremely tall, extremely intelligent head of Axel Springer, is unusual in the generally conformist German business elite…
