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Bisexuality is now everywhere (and nowhere)
I’m not aware of knowing many bisexual people. Or indeed, off the top of my head, any bisexual people. Which…
The welcome return of the valedictory dispatch
‘All I ever tried to do was hold a mirror up and show you how beautiful you really are. Shine…
The Spectator’s notes
Watching the very pleasant Liz Kendall on television this week, I was struck by how extraordinary it is that more…
Labour MPs’ next choice: which leadership coup to back
Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/thecleaneatingcult/media.mp3 Jeremy Corbyn’s close friend Tony Benn had five questions he always asked of those in power: ‘What power…
Time is running out for Labour
The Labour leadership contest was supposed to be a debate about the party’s future. Instead it has oscillated between petty…
The Spectator’s notes
Our son, William, celebrated his marriage on Saturday. You would expect me to say that it was wonderful, sunny occasion.…
The feminists who fell for a bleeding hoax
Did you know that tampons were just another brutal expression of the oppressive patriarchy? I must confess that I didn’t…
The clock that stopped: the victory of nuclear arms and defeat of nuclear power
‘I visited the black marble obelisk which marks the epicentre of the explosion, and I saw the plain domestic wall-clock…
The clock that stopped: the victory of nuclear arms and defeat of nuclear power
‘I visited the black marble obelisk which marks the epicentre of the explosion, and I saw the plain domestic wall-clock…
The feminists who fell for a bleeding hoax
Did you know that tampons were just another brutal expression of the oppressive patriarchy? I must confess that I didn’t…
The Spectator’s notes
Our son, William, celebrated his marriage on Saturday. You would expect me to say that it was wonderful, sunny occasion.…
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…
How Hillary can win it – for the Republicans
New York Remember the fizz around Gordon Brown’s election campaign in 2010? The excitement he brought to the trail? 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…
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…
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…
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…
The agony of Labour’s old-fashioned modernisers
The exhausted Labour leadership contest takes a bucket-and-spade holiday next week, with all four candidates agreeing to an uneasy truce…
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,…
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…
