Columnists
Sturgeon the unstoppable
‘She sold out the Hydro arena faster than Kylie Minogue,’ said one awestruck unionist of Nicola Sturgeon this week. Scotland’s…
The nation’s mental age is four, and dropping
I wonder how long it will be before we actually crawl back into the womb? The average mental age of…
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…
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,…
Qatar’s bid for Canary Wharf fills me with foreboding, even if they deserve each other
I’ve written before of a ‘curse of Qatar’ that might explain misfortunes attending the Gulf state’s UK investments, of which…
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 underestimating Ukip
In a corner of the Ukip campaign office in Rochester, a light-up orb is spinning, with the words ‘Vote Mark…
Why wouldn’t we want these jihadis to go and get themselves killed?
The news is always grim, isn’t it? Doom and gloom everywhere. And even the news which appears to be good…
The lost pleasures of reading a proper newspaper
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…
What happens in Vegas… and why I’m happy it doesn’t happen at home
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…
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…
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 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 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…
Our prosperity is rising, but our start-up entrepreneurs need much more fertiliser
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…
