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If we stop stigmatising fat people, we’ll have lots more of them
Trying to get good, healthy, nutritious food down the ungrateful throats of the lower orders, especially northerners, has become a…
Religious sceptics deserve better enemies
I wish I were a religious conservative: the field’s wide open. It must be dispiriting for believers to encounter so…
The Spectator’s Notes
AS THE WHOLE Leveson wrangle approaches its climax (or anti-climax), one collateral, innocent victim of it all is the Queen.…
America makes a fool of itself with another episode of debt-ceiling drama
Some say it’s natural optimism that makes the Americans so different from the British, and some say it’s a lack…
Religious sceptics deserve better enemies
I wish I were a religious conservative: the field’s wide open. It must be dispiriting for believers to encounter so…
What the reshuffles showed us: none of these parties are ready to win
Reshuffles are meant to demonstrate the power of a leader, to show that they are in command of their party.…
The Spectator’s Notes
Friends of mine called Georgiana and Mouse Campbell recently bought a new house. In the period between completion and moving…
Hugh Grant’s censorious friends may be about to win the day
It is a peculiar alliance, when you think of it, which wishes to bring to an end 300 years of…
Feminists, you are betraying yourselves
I’ve been racking my brains to think what I might have in common with Kim Jong Un and Piers Morgan.…
For the time being, I am choosing to believe this far-right conversion story
I’ve often thought it might be interesting to meet Tommy Robinson, or Stephen Lennon, or whatever one is supposed to…
Dickensian misery at the pawnbrokers’ — but now it’s on the other side of the counter
While attention has focused on the sudden ubiquity and alleged iniquity of payday lenders, boom and impending bust has infected…
For the time being, I am choosing to believe this far-right conversion story
I’ve often thought it might be interesting to meet Tommy Robinson, or Stephen Lennon, or whatever one is supposed to…
Feminists, you are betraying yourselves
I’ve been racking my brains to think what I might have in common with Kim Jong Un and Piers Morgan.…
Two men have united the Tories: Ed Miliband and Nigel Farage
Manchester The Tory party has been at peace with itself this week. Eurosceptic backbenchers have given Nigel Farage a verbal…
The Spectator’s Notes
Manchester For those of us of a certain age, Ed Miliband’s speech last week was exhilaratingly nostalgic. His promise to…
Here we go again: say one word against an icon of the left and the phone won’t stop ringing
Ring, ring goes the telephone every minute God sends. Sometimes I pick it up and say hello, sometimes I don’t.…
The Tories would be mad to cuddle up to Ukip
Such is my respect for Spectator readers that I offer you a column whose subtext is in Latin. Ours is…
Freezing gas bills, freezing fuel duty – and one day we’ll all be freezing in the dark
‘We need successful energy companies in Britain, we need them to invest for the future,’ said Ed Miliband in his…
Investment: Fluttering voters
When you hear the words ‘economic recovery’, do you think: ‘Great! Britain is on the mend’? Or ‘Damn! I should…
The Tories would be mad to cuddle up to Ukip
Such is my respect for Spectator readers that I offer you a column whose subtext is in Latin. Ours is…
Investment: Fluttering voters
When you hear the words ‘economic recovery’, do you think: ‘Great! Britain is on the mend’? Or ‘Damn! I should…
Investment: Fluttering voters
When you hear the words ‘economic recovery’, do you think: ‘Great! Britain is on the mend’? Or ‘Damn! I should…
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…
