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The Spectator’s Notes
No doubt it will happen, because the Tories will not dare oppose it, but is there any conceivable good reason…
Fury and loathing in the New Labour gang
There is a little vignette in the first volume of Alastair Campbell’s diaries that makes it abundantly clear that, at…
What’s wrong with being right?
I’m trying to imagine what Britain would look like under a Ukip/Conservative coalition with Cameron as PM and Farage as…
Am I alone in being bothered about all this surveillance?
Oh, but life’s easier if you’re American. Each and every last way the state meddles with your life is an…
Not so much a property bubble, more an opportunity to improve London’s transport
Everyone —including me, if I’m honest — has been talking about a new property bubble. But is it for real?…
Am I alone in being bothered about all this surveillance?
Oh, but life’s easier if you’re American. Each and every last way the state meddles with your life is an…
What’s wrong with being right?
I’m trying to imagine what Britain would look like under a Ukip/Conservative coalition with Cameron as PM and Farage as…
The Spectator’s Notes
We are not allowed to know any details about the Muslim woman, charged with intimidating a witness, who has been…
Nick Clegg should stick with the devil he knows
I write this in Glasgow, at the Lib Dem conference. Nick Clegg has invented a constitutional doctrine. The doctrine teaches…
Does the BMA prefer real fags to e-cigarettes?
What strategy should we adopt to cope with the British Medical Association? Its members kill more people each year than…
Twitter looks much more expensive than Royal Mail, but which one will last longer?
Royal Mail delivers to 29 million UK addresses; last year it generated £9 billion of revenues, of which £324 million…
Nick Clegg should stick with the devil he knows
I write this in Glasgow, at the Lib Dem conference. Nick Clegg has invented a constitutional doctrine. The doctrine teaches…
The centre can be held
His party may be struggling to reach double digits in the polls, but Nick Clegg is entitled to feel smug…
The Spectator’s Notes
‘Corruption’ is a subtle word, because it describes a process rather than an event. It does not merely mean bad…
The reassuring stupidity of John Kerry
The Syrian rebels who liberated the mountain village of Maaloula apparently immediately set about converting the predominantly Christian population to…
The RSPB is fighting for wind turbines. The birds can fend for themselves
The RSPB has come out against fracking and urged the government to ‘rethink its shale gas policies’. And of course…
Boring politicians are a threat to democracy. That means you, Rachel Reeves
I’ve never met the woman that the Newsnight editor Ian Katz this week accidentally described as ‘boring, snoring Rachel Reeves’,…
Welcome back, TSB: your founder’s spirit is alive and well and living in Airdrie
A big hello to the revived Trustee Savings Bank — the spin-off of 631 Lloyds branches that were going to…
Boring politicians are a threat to democracy. That means you, Rachel Reeves
I’ve never met the woman that the Newsnight editor Ian Katz this week accidentally described as ‘boring, snoring Rachel Reeves’,…
The RSPB is fighting for wind turbines. The birds can fend for themselves
The RSPB has come out against fracking and urged the government to ‘rethink its shale gas policies’. And of course…
After his Syria defeat, Cameron faces a battle to win over his MPs
The political conference season may be lacking in party activists nowadays, but it has lost none of its importance to…
The Spectator’s Notes
David Cameron says that he will not come back to the House of Commons again about the question of Syria…
What are we supposed to say when a grooming ring comes to light?
It is a tragedy that some of us are born in the wrong times. According to that increasingly gobby conduit…
The awkward truth about democracy in action
After David Cameron’s decision to seek parliamentary approval for air strikes against Syria, two lobbies came charging in, banners aloft.…
What Vodafone should do with its huge windfall: invest it in the next Vodafone
Vodafone, which has just collected an £84 billion windfall from the sale of its 45 per cent stake in Verizon…
