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The wine waiters at Claridges are taking a keen interest in the investigation into malpractice in Falkirk. And they’re hoping…
Is this amazing railway going ahead? Not if Boris and Mandychops can help it
‘Does anyone seriously doubt that this amazing scheme is actually going to go ahead?’ boomed Boris Johnson last week. ‘No…
Columnists are still partisan. Our readers aren’t
An email exchange with a Conservative-leaning friend this week left me feeling sheepish. But if shameful my behaviour be, I’m…
Nick and Dave are ready to rumble. Ed, on the other hand …
The coalition parties have governed together for more than three years now, but they remain culturally very different beasts. When…
The Spectator’s Notes
MPs are incomparable. This may seem an odd thing to say in the current climate of opinion, but I mean…
The latest brilliant idea over at Channel 4
It is very lucky for the BBC that Channel 4 exists. Whatever imbecilic, supposedly attention-grabbing trash the BBC commissions, there will…
By the book: All passion rent
According to the Council of Mortgage Lenders, 81 per cent of British people want to own their homes within the…
It’s the secret of a successful marriage: my wife treats me like a dog
‘Here, Wolf,’ says the Fawn to me, showing me a saucer. ‘Look at this! This is the new place where…
What business is it of the taxman whether I’m married or not?
The Conservative party is trying to redefine marriage. I can’t believe they think they’re going to get away with this.…
Great creator and sharer of wealth? Maybe, but Mr Rich was also a terrible role model
Marc Rich, the godfather of global commodity trading who died last week, ‘deserves credit as one of the greatest creators…
What business is it of the taxman whether I’m married or not?
The Conservative party is trying to redefine marriage. I can’t believe they think they’re going to get away with this.…
It’s the secret of a successful marriage: my wife treats me like a dog
‘Here, Wolf,’ says the Fawn to me, showing me a saucer. ‘Look at this! This is the new place where…
By the book: All passion rent
According to the Council of Mortgage Lenders, 81 per cent of British people want to own their homes within the…
By the book: All passion rent
According to the Council of Mortgage Lenders, 81 per cent of British people want to own their homes within the…
If it’s a race that only one horse can win, am I wrong to want it to be mine?
Why is Christianity so unhelpful on the very ethical dilemma that most concerns ordinary people in our everyday lives? Why…
The day I awoke my inner predator
Gweru on the central Highveld of Zimbabwe used to be called Gwelo when I was there as a boy but…
I’ve checked my privilege, thanks. I’m still right
This week, I bring you a dispatch from the frontline of pseudo-intellectual, metropolitan navel-gazing. This is, after all, what you…
The greens are wrong about logging, too
Just because the environmentalists have been proved so epically wrong about global warming doesn’t mean they’re right about everything else.…
Why Ukip is a party of extremists
Last Saturday I wrote for my newspaper a column whose drift was that it was time for the sane majority…
Better to be the founder of a cool social network than the billion-dollar buyer
I haven’t used Yahoo as a general search engine since an American friend introduced me to the miracle that was…
Here’s why Tories shouldn’t do smear campaigns
‘Pick the target, freeze it, personalise it and polarise it.’ This is the best-known of Saul Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals,…
Better to be the founder of a cool social network than the billion-dollar buyer
I haven’t used Yahoo as a general search engine since an American friend introduced me to the miracle that was…
The wheat and the chaff of online comments
What’s to be done about the online comments sections in daily newspapers? These (for those estimable Spectator readers who have…
Niall Ferguson shouldn’t have apologised for his comments about Keynes
Is it homophobic to argue that it’s mainly gay men who keep the flame of popular culture alive? If so,…
What do the innocent have to fear? Ask Google
Forgive me, but let’s go straight in. Readers of a sensitive disposition look away, but there’s a serious reason for…
