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The Green Blob has claimed another victim
The Green Blob which did for Owen Paterson has claimed another victim. Her name is Anne Glover and she was,…
Without patriotism, there’s no civilisation
Is it racist to be patriotic? Is patriotism, by definition, small-minded and exclusive? When you strip away the onion layers…
Sturgeon the unstoppable
Listen http://traffic.libsyn.com/spectator/TheViewFrom22_20_Nov_2014_v4.mp3 ‘She sold out the Hydro arena faster than Kylie Minogue,’ said one awestruck unionist of Nicola Sturgeon this…
The Tories are paying the price for their swagger over the Rochester by-election
In a corner of the Ukip campaign office in Rochester, a light-up orb is spinning, with the words ‘Vote Mark…
Please, Theresa, let Anjem Choudary go and get himself killed
The news is always grim, isn’t it? Doom and gloom everywhere. And even the news which appears to be good…
What you’re missing now that you don’t read this in print
The internet is a frighteningly efficient place for hunter-gathering – but the pleasures of undirected browsing are harder to find online
You shouldn’t watch Dapper Laughs. But you really shouldn’t let the likes of me stop you
As you’ll know by now, I’m big on thinking the right things. Should a thought strike me that m’colleague Rod…
Why I’m glad there’s no British Las Vegas
I didn’t realise that the Rialto Bridge has a moving walkway and muzak, that the gondolas beneath it float on…
You shouldn’t watch Dapper Laughs. But you really shouldn’t let the likes of me stop you
As you’ll know by now, I’m big on thinking the right things. Should a thought strike me that m’colleague Rod…
The lost pleasures of reading a proper newspaper
Liverpool airport is a curiously unreal place in the half-light before dawn on a cold November morning. Out across the…
The Tories are paying the price for underestimating Ukip
Listen http://traffic.libsyn.com/spectator/TheViewFrom22_13_Nov_2014_v4.mp3 In a corner of the Ukip campaign office in Rochester, a light-up orb is spinning, with the words…
The Tories are paying the price for underestimating Ukip
Listen http://traffic.libsyn.com/spectator/TheViewFrom22_13_Nov_2014_v4.mp3 In a corner of the Ukip campaign office in Rochester, a light-up orb is spinning, with the words…
How Ed Miliband lost his winning hand
Ed Miliband’s internal critics used to complain that he had a 35 per cent strategy. They claimed that his unambitious…
Ukip is a party for people who hate London. That’s why Labour should be scared
It is interesting that neither Scotland nor Wales have been much bitten by the Ukip bug. The supposedly sensible view…
The unexpected joys of working while pregnant
‘You are like my cat.’ So I was told when eight-and-a-half months pregnant, just before going on maternity leave from…
The Islamic sermon that taught me what’s happened to Birmingham
Birmingham has changed a bit since I grew up there in the 1970s. Back then, the stories of the hour…
What British start-ups are still missing
This issue includes the new Spectator Money supplement, in which I hope you’ll find a bouquet of stimulating ideas. The…
The sermon that taught me what’s happened to Birmingham
Birmingham has changed a bit since I grew up there in the 1970s. Back then, the stories of the hour…
Miliband needs a plan – and soon
Ed Miliband’s internal critics used to complain that he had a 35 per cent strategy. They claimed that his unambitious…
The bookshop and the bump
‘You are like my cat.’ So I was told when eight-and-a-half months pregnant, just before going on maternity leave from…
The bookshop and the bump
‘You are like my cat.’ So I was told when eight-and-a-half months pregnant, just before going on maternity leave from…
Scotland needs Jim Murphy (even if he doesn’t want to go back there)
There should, by rights, have been a stampede of candidates to replace Johann Lamont as the leader of the Scottish…
Rod Liddle: The top 10 most fatuous phrases in the English language
An apology. A few weeks back, in my blog, I promised a regular series called ‘Fatuous Phrase of the Week’.…
Help me become an addict
When the White Queen told Alice she had sometimes believed as many as six contradictory things before breakfast, she spoke…
I’ll take Jeremy Clarkson over a howling mob any day
Perhaps it’s a glaring and personal flaw in my observational skills, but if somebody tried to insult me via a…
