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The slow death of environmentalism
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
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
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
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
I am having terrible trouble with my hair at the moment. It is lank, flat and lifeless. There are split…
Elections? What elections?
Britain goes to the polls next week. Yet this has barely registered on the media radar. These aren’t the forgotten…
The Spectator’s Notes
‘England in effect is insular, she is maritime, she is linked through her interactions, her markets and her supply lines…
Brexit Tories are feeling disrespected. How awful
There are moments when one wonders whether one is seeing and hearing the same things as others. For me such…
The politically correct way to do racism
Exactly a year ago this week I was at a dinner party when a famous opinion pollster leaned over to…
The death of investment banking will lead to the rebirth of something better
Oh woe. Investment bank profits are evaporating after a disastrous contraction of trading revenues reflecting zero-to-negative interest rates, weak commodity…
The death of investment banking will lead to the rebirth of something better
Oh woe. Investment bank profits are evaporating after a disastrous contraction of trading revenues reflecting zero-to-negative interest rates, weak commodity…
Brexit Tories are feeling disrespected. How awful
There are moments when one wonders whether one is seeing and hearing the same things as others. For me such…
Elections? What elections?
Listen http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/261189280-the-spectator-podcast-the-wrong-right.mp3 Britain goes to the polls next week. Yet this has barely registered on the media radar. These aren’t…
The Spectator’s Notes
‘England in effect is insular, she is maritime, she is linked through her interactions, her markets and her supply lines…
The politically correct way to do racism
Exactly a year ago this week I was at a dinner party when a famous opinion pollster leaned over to…
Cameron’s heading for a hollow victory
‘Nothing except a battle lost can be half as melancholy as a battle won,’ wrote the Duke of Wellington after…
The Spectator’s notes
The ‘remain’ campaign is having some success with the line that the ‘leave’ camp cannot say what Britain outside the…
Moderate Muslims are not particularly moderate
‘What’s in the news this week?’ I asked my wife as she browsed the first newspaper we had seen for…
Oxford in my day was another, better world
I was in the attic killing some Taleban on Medal of Honor when Girl interrupted and said: ‘Dad, what’s this?’…
If you’re riding the FTSE rebound you might still want to sell in May
When the FTSE100 fell close to 5,500 in February, we all said ‘Mr Bear is back’. On Tuesday the index…
If you’re riding the FTSE rebound you might still want to sell in May
When the FTSE100 fell close to 5,500 in February, we all said ‘Mr Bear is back’. On Tuesday the index…
Oxford in my day was another, better world
I was in the attic killing some Taleban on Medal of Honor when Girl interrupted and said: ‘Dad, what’s this?’…
Cameron’s heading for a hollow victory
Listen http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/260046943-the-spectator-podcast-obamas-eu-intervention-the-pms.mp3 ‘Nothing except a battle lost can be half as melancholy as a battle won,’ wrote the Duke of…
The Spectator’s notes
The ‘remain’ campaign is having some success with the line that the ‘leave’ camp cannot say what Britain outside the…
Moderate Muslims are not particularly moderate
‘What’s in the news this week?’ I asked my wife as she browsed the first newspaper we had seen for…
