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The Spectator’s Notes
By the time you read this, the campaign will have drawn fractiously to its close, so here is a strong…
Why hasn’t the Remain dog barked in this election?
The hopes of those who want Britain to stay in the EU have been dashed by this election. There has…
Why hasn’t the Remain dog barked in this election?
The hopes of those who want Britain to stay in the EU have been dashed by this election. There has…
BA’s disaster plan failed as soon as the smoke started coming out of its servers
The science of ‘disaster recovery planning’, together with the related art of ‘crisis PR’, is a core discipline of 21st-century…
Jeremy Corbyn’s one true virtue
Enough of all these vital, apocalyptic, existential elections. They don’t half wear you out. The Scottish referendum was vital and…
Do penises cause climate change? Discuss
‘Why not think about Gender Studies?’ asked an advertorial aimed at prospective students in the newspaper I was reading. Actually,…
Should those poor kids have been there?
My wife will not let our 11-year-old daughter take the dog for a walk around the large field adjoining our…
The Spectator’s Notes
At Mass on Sunday, we were issued with a letter from the Catholic Bishops’ Conference, entitled ‘The General Election 2017’.…
The Spectator’s Notes
At Mass on Sunday, we were issued with a letter from the Catholic Bishops’ Conference, entitled ‘The General Election 2017’.…
We’d all like to see Fred on the hook but RBS investors will be wiser to settle
‘Fred Goodwin off the hook again,’ declared the Scottish Daily Record. That neatly summed up one strand of sentiment behind…
Why do nurses quit? Because they care
Sometimes, on Sundays, I visit Richard, a friend who’s 95 and lives alone. The idea originally was that I’d be…
A dementia tax would be a euthanasia bonus
Had Theresa May not on Monday summarily abandoned her manifesto threat to raid the savings of those who end up…
Will Theresa May ever resist a backlash?
Elections matter. They are fundamental to our way of life. So, while it is appropriate that the campaigns stopped on…
This is the worst Tory campaign ever
I am trying to remember if there was ever a worse Conservative election campaign than this current dog’s breakfast —…
The Spectator’s notes
In most parts of the world, we have now supped so full of terrorist horrors that the death of 22…
Here’s who should be Mrs May’s cabinet supremo to tackle the housing shortage
Who should be housing supremo in what we all assume will be Mrs May’s new administration? Brandon Lewis and Gavin…
Big money, big data and the dead cat strategy
In his new book Move Fast and Break Things, the American academic Jonathan Taplin makes a decent case that, democratically…
We owe it to hunt staff to repeal the ban
Though I don’t think much of Theresa May’s paternalistic soft-left politics, I do like her no-nonsense style. That Q&A she…
Corbyn is the real heir to Blair
Alastair Campbell once famously punched the Guardian’s Michael White in the face. A commendable thing to do, undoubtedly, as Mr…
The Spectator’s Notes
‘Exclusive invitation: I want to hear from you, Charles’, it said in my inbox. Theresa May wanted me to take…
The economy isn’t all roses, but that’s no reason not to vote for Mrs May
As the election campaign goes into full swing, we hear surprisingly little about the state of the UK economy —…
Why it’s obvious that morality precedes religion
At a beautiful church service recently I encountered again a Gospel parable that left me, again, torn between sympathy and…
Twelve months of May
Normally, the first anniversary of a prime minister taking office is the occasion for a lot of opinion polls and…
The cops should have said: it’s just Stephen Fry, what did you expect?
Coming to a workplace near you, perhaps — masturbation breaks. The policy was first recommended by a psychologist at Nottingham…
The Spectator’s Notes
Jeremy Corbyn wants to put up income tax only for people who earn more than £80,000 a year, he says.…
