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RBS’s note from a crashing plane: wild headline-grabbing or wise advice?

14 January 2016 3:00 pm

Should anyone take investment advice from Royal Bank of Scotland, the institution which so misread markets before the crash that…

Nature is red in tooth and claw. Get over it

14 January 2016 3:00 pm

Wild Lone is one of the most violent books I’ve ever read. It was published just before the last war…

I, robot. You, unemployed

14 January 2016 3:00 pm

One evening last autumn, four experts in the field of artificial intelligence arrived in Westminster with an urgent message for…

The Spectator’s Notes

14 January 2016 3:00 pm

No amount of reports in the press that Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet-making is farcical and his party is divided should…

Bowie once praised Adolf Hitler… but he was always changing his tune

14 January 2016 3:00 pm

Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/projectfear/media.mp3 I was desperately worried that you hadn’t read or heard enough platitudinous drivel about David Bowie — and…

Corbyn is untouchable now

9 January 2016 9:00 am

There have been few more pathetic displays of political impotence than the tweets sent by shadow cabinet members paying tribute…

The Spectator’s Notes

9 January 2016 9:00 am

At the end of next week, a judge will decide whether the ‘trial of the facts’ can proceed now that…

Why we have to stand by the foul, brutal Saudis

9 January 2016 9:00 am

The Saudis have got the new year off to a busy start, haven’t they? The authorities executed 47 people, including…

Our leaders’ suicidal urge to sex it up

9 January 2016 9:00 am

It has been over a month since Parliament voted to bomb Isis in Syria, yet in that time there have…

What a spankingly splendid scandal

9 January 2016 9:00 am

Apparently, according to a variety of relatively reliable sources that include the man himself, the Labour MP for Rochdale, Simon…

Another banking review is pointless: just carry on naming, shaming and jailing

9 January 2016 9:00 am

Was the Financial Conduct Authority leaned on by the Chancellor to scrap its ‘review of banking culture’? Or did it…

Another banking review is pointless: just carry on naming, shaming and jailing

7 January 2016 3:00 pm

Was the Financial Conduct Authority leaned on by the Chancellor to scrap its ‘review of banking culture’? Or did it…

What a spankingly splendid scandal

7 January 2016 3:00 pm

Apparently, according to a variety of relatively reliable sources that include the man himself, the Labour MP for Rochdale, Simon…

Our leaders’ suicidal urge to sex it up

7 January 2016 3:00 pm

It has been over a month since Parliament voted to bomb Isis in Syria, yet in that time there have…

Corbyn is untouchable now

7 January 2016 3:00 pm

There have been few more pathetic displays of political impotence than the tweets sent by shadow cabinet members paying tribute…

The Spectator’s Notes

7 January 2016 3:00 pm

At the end of next week, a judge will decide whether the ‘trial of the facts’ can proceed now that…

Why we have to stand by the foul, brutal Saudis

7 January 2016 3:00 pm

The Saudis have got the new year off to a busy start, haven’t they? The authorities executed 47 people, including…

The political wisdom of people who don’t even know what a circle is

2 January 2016 9:00 am

Why are liberals morons? I’m sure that this question has rattled around your mind before, perhaps when watching one of…

The best things in the world spring up by accident

2 January 2016 9:00 am

Since no one has bothered to ask what my must-read book of last year was I’m going to tell you…

The human element: highs, lows and loose ends of 2015

2 January 2016 9:00 am

Last year was a bumper year for mergers and acquisitions. Recovering prospects and relatively low price-earnings ratios made the takeover…

The human element: highs, lows and loose ends of 2015

31 December 2015 3:00 pm

Last year was a bumper year for mergers and acquisitions. Recovering prospects and relatively low price-earnings ratios made the takeover…

The best things in the world spring up by accident

31 December 2015 3:00 pm

Since no one has bothered to ask what my must-read book of last year was I’m going to tell you…

The political wisdom of people who don’t even know what a circle is

31 December 2015 3:00 pm

Why are liberals morons? I’m sure that this question has rattled around your mind before, perhaps when watching one of…

Will you survive the Delingpole Era? See below…

12 December 2015 9:00 am

  Things I am going to ban when, by popular acclaim, I am elected your Dictator For Life in 2016.…

Exit strategy vs stay-in power

12 December 2015 9:00 am

By this time next year Britain will, if the government has its way, have voted on whether or not this…