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Time is running out for Labour
Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/chinasdownturn-labourslostvotersandthesweetestvictoryagainstaustralia/media.mp3 The Labour leadership contest was supposed to be a debate about the party’s future. Instead it has oscillated…
Hillary Clinton is a hopeless candidate – and Democrats are finally realising
New York Remember the fizz around Gordon Brown’s election campaign in 2010? The excitement he brought to the trail? The…
Charles Moore’s Notes: I’ve rarely written a word in favour of Edward Heath, but I don’t believe these accusations
As someone who has rarely written a sentence in praise of the late Sir Edward Heath, I hope I can…
Who would have thought that about Ted Heath? Well…
In another blow for freedom and the protection of the vulnerable, Conservative MP Mark Spencer has suggested that anti-terror legislation…
How Jeremy Corbyn could destroy the Tories (yes, really)
‘Why this sudden restlessness, this confusion?’ asked C.P. Cavafy in his poem ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’: Because night has fallen…
This time we really are getting tough on dodgy bankers (just don’t expect it to reach the boardroom)
Fourteen years is a long stretch. The punishment imposed on former UBS and Citigroup trader Tom Hayes for his role…
The Libor trader’s long stretch is a big message to the banking world
Fourteen years is a long stretch. The punishment imposed on former UBS and Citigroup trader Tom Hayes for his role…
If Corbyn wins, he could split the Tories too
‘Why this sudden restlessness, this confusion?’ asked C.P. Cavafy in his poem ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’: Because night has fallen…
How Hillary can win it – for the Republicans
New York Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/howtofixtherefugeecrisis/media.mp3 Remember the fizz around Gordon Brown’s election campaign in 2010? The excitement he brought to the…
The Spectator’s Notes
As someone who has rarely written a sentence in praise of the late Sir Edward Heath, I hope I can…
Who’d have thought that about Ted? Well…
In another blow for freedom and the protection of the vulnerable, Conservative MP Mark Spencer has suggested that anti-terror legislation…
Whoever wins the Labour leadership, Blairism is at death’s door
The exhausted Labour leadership contest takes a bucket-and-spade holiday next week, with all four candidates agreeing to an uneasy truce…
Charles Moore’s Notes: If peers aren’t to be elected, they should be impossible to get rid of
Obviously when one attends what the papers call ‘cocaine-fuelled orgies’, one expects to find several members of the peerage present,…
Jeremy Corbyn won’t destroy Labour. But he might yet destroy the country
Imagine, for a moment, the following scenario. In 2016 Britain votes narrowly to remain within the European Union, despite the…
‘Not to worry, just a gang killing’: the mantra of the metropolitan middle classes
Another stabbing in my new neighbourhood, not with an axe or with a samurai sword this time, but a machete.…
The wonders of the Muslim world that my children will never get to see
I celebrated Eid in a sandy bay in Sri Lanka, watching from the warm, shallow sea as gaggles of local…
I remember Nikkei’s journalistic values – and I’m not sure they’re much like the FT’s
It’s nearly 30 years since I worked in Japan, but I still have a few words of the language and…
Do Nikkei and the FT really share the same journalistic values?
It’s nearly 30 years since I worked in Japan, but I still have a few words of the language and…
A twinge of fear, and a glimpse of a harsher world
I celebrated Eid in a sandy bay in Sri Lanka, watching from the warm, shallow sea as gaggles of local…
Machetes and the middle classes
Another stabbing in my new neighbourhood, not with an axe or with a samurai sword this time, but a machete.…
The Spectator’s Notes
Obviously when one attends what the papers call ‘cocaine-fuelled orgies’, one expects to find several members of the peerage present,…
The agony of Labour’s old-fashioned modernisers
Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/theosbornesupremacy/media.mp3 The exhausted Labour leadership contest takes a bucket-and-spade holiday next week, with all four candidates agreeing to an…
If Corbyn becomes PM, I’m blaming you lot
Imagine, for a moment, the following scenario. In 2016 Britain votes narrowly to remain within the European Union, despite the…
The SNP surge at Westminster might just accidentally save the Union
There are few quicker ways to annoy an MP than to suggest that they are on holiday when the House…
Tim Farron, an evangelical Christian, is the victim of a secular inquisition
I wonder who will win the battle for Tim Farron’s soul — the Guardianistas or God? This is assuming that…
