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Will Labour never learn?

14 May 2016 9:00 am

By now, Labour should be rather good at post-defeat inquests. Plenty have been conducted over the years and the drill…

The Spectator’s notes

14 May 2016 9:00 am

One of the many problems with David Cameron’s threat that leaving the European Union could plunge us into war is…

Write a leftie column and win a doctorate

14 May 2016 9:00 am

I see that law students at Oxford University were told that if they found the contents of a lecture on…

RIP Gussie, my plainspoken llama

14 May 2016 9:00 am

Gussie is the name of a grumpy and ill-natured llama, her coat largely white and somewhat unkempt, and much given…

Vaping’s appeal isn’t about the nicotine. It’s about the gadgets

14 May 2016 9:00 am

Probably you never visited the flats of middle-class student drug dealers in the 1990s, because crikey, neither did I, and…

Have we sacrificed a quarter’s growth to answer the European question?

14 May 2016 9:00 am

Has the shadow of Brexit already cost us a slice of GDP — and if so, is it a blip…

Have we sacrificed a quarter’s growth to answer the European question?

12 May 2016 1:00 pm

Has the shadow of Brexit already cost us a slice of GDP — and if so, is it a blip…

Vaping’s appeal isn’t about the nicotine. It’s about the gadgets

12 May 2016 1:00 pm

Probably you never visited the flats of middle-class student drug dealers in the 1990s, because crikey, neither did I, and…

RIP Gussie, my plainspoken llama

12 May 2016 1:00 pm

Gussie is the name of a grumpy and ill-natured llama, her coat largely white and somewhat unkempt, and much given…

The Spectator’s notes

12 May 2016 1:00 pm

One of the many problems with David Cameron’s threat that leaving the European Union could plunge us into war is…

Will Labour never learn?

12 May 2016 1:00 pm

By now, Labour should be rather good at post-defeat inquests. Plenty have been conducted over the years and the drill…

Write a leftie column and win a doctorate

12 May 2016 1:00 pm

I see that law students at Oxford University were told that if they found the contents of a lecture on…

Enter Boris, eyes on the prize

7 May 2016 9:00 am

After an eight-year detour into municipal government, Boris Johnson has now returned to national politics. The former mayor of London…

The Spectator’s notes

7 May 2016 9:00 am

The comparison between the referendum questions — that asked in 1975 and the one which we shall be asked on 23…

Let’s make assisted dying legal for Brightonians

7 May 2016 9:00 am

I am having terrible trouble with my hair at the moment. It is lank, flat and lifeless. There are split…

In praise of doctors’ handwriting

7 May 2016 9:00 am

My baby and I excel at blood tests. He (tiny, jaundiced) stretches out naked under the hospital’s hot cot-lamps like…

The slow death of environmentalism

7 May 2016 9:00 am

Would you describe yourself as an ‘environmentalist’? I would, mainly to annoy greenies, but also because it’s true. If your…

Scrapping RBS’s toxic brand should be a step towards a final break-up

7 May 2016 9:00 am

Royal Bank of Scotland is at last about to dump the ‘RBS’ logotype promoted by its fallen chieftain Fred Goodwin,…

Scrapping RBS’s toxic brand should be a step towards a final break-up

5 May 2016 1:00 pm

Royal Bank of Scotland is at last about to dump the ‘RBS’ logotype promoted by its fallen chieftain Fred Goodwin,…

The slow death of environmentalism

5 May 2016 1:00 pm

Would you describe yourself as an ‘environmentalist’? I would, mainly to annoy greenies, but also because it’s true. If your…

In praise of doctors’ handwriting

5 May 2016 1:00 pm

My baby and I excel at blood tests. He (tiny, jaundiced) stretches out naked under the hospital’s hot cot-lamps like…

Enter Boris, eyes on the prize

5 May 2016 1:00 pm

Listen http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/262486539-the-spectator-podcast-erdogans-europe.mp3 After an eight-year detour into municipal government, Boris Johnson has now returned to national politics. The former mayor…

The Spectator’s notes

5 May 2016 1:00 pm

The comparison between the referendum questions — that asked in 1975 and the one which we shall be asked on 23…

Let’s make assisted dying legal for Brightonians

5 May 2016 1:00 pm

I am having terrible trouble with my hair at the moment. It is lank, flat and lifeless. There are split…

Elections? What elections?

30 April 2016 9:00 am

Britain goes to the polls next week. Yet this has barely registered on the media radar. These aren’t the forgotten…