The Spectator’s Notes

The Spectator’s notes

4 February 2016 3:00 pm

In 2000, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, accused Magdalen College, Oxford, of class bias in failing to…

Charles Moore’s Notes: The demented accusations against Field Marshal Lord Bramall have at last been dropped

23 January 2016 9:00 am

Many have rightly attacked the police for their handling of the demented accusations against Field Marshal Lord Bramall, now at…

The Spectator’s Notes

21 January 2016 3:00 pm

Many have rightly attacked the police for their handling of the demented accusations against Field Marshal Lord Bramall, now at…

Charles Moore’s Notes: Corbyn’s shambolic reshuffle should not distract us from the fact that he is gaining control of Labour

16 January 2016 9:00 am

No amount of reports in the press that Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet-making is farcical and his party is divided should…

The Spectator’s Notes

14 January 2016 3:00 pm

No amount of reports in the press that Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet-making is farcical and his party is divided should…

Charles Moore’s Notes: Are we really going to try Lord Janner’s corpse?

9 January 2016 9:00 am

At the end of next week, a judge will decide whether the ‘trial of the facts’ can proceed now that…

The Spectator’s Notes

7 January 2016 3:00 pm

At the end of next week, a judge will decide whether the ‘trial of the facts’ can proceed now that…

Charles Moore’s Notes: Trying to reach a global agreement on anything is a waste of time

5 December 2015 9:00 am

Speaking on the Today programme on Monday, Sir David Attenborough, who wants a global agreement to control carbon emissions, pointed…

The Spectator’s Notes

3 December 2015 3:00 pm

Speaking on the Today programme on Monday, Sir David Attenborough, who wants a global agreement to control carbon emissions, pointed…

Charles Moore’s Notes: cheap trickery in the Economist’s assisted dying campaign

28 November 2015 9:00 am

Because, it says, of its ‘liberal values and respect for human dignity’, the Economist has put out a film about…

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26 November 2015 3:00 pm

Because, it says, of its ‘liberal values and respect for human dignity’, the Economist has put out a film about…

Charles Moore’s Notes: Jeremy Corbyn, fanatic

21 November 2015 9:00 am

When Jeremy Corbyn says it is better to bring people to trial than to shoot them, he is right. So…

The Spectator’s Notes

19 November 2015 3:00 pm

When Jeremy Corbyn says it is better to bring people to trial than to shoot them, he is right. So…

Charles Moore’s Notes: Who’d be a diplomat now?

14 November 2015 9:00 am

The other day, a friend told me, he had been chatting to an old friend of his who has spent…

Charles Moore’s Notes: Who’d be a diplomat now?

12 November 2015 3:00 pm

The other day, a friend told me, he had been chatting to an old friend of his who has spent…

Charles Moore’s Notes: Why the V&A needs Thatcher’s clothes

7 November 2015 9:00 am

It is good to learn that the current management of the V&A want to reverse their predecessors’ lack of interest…

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5 November 2015 3:00 pm

It is good to learn that the current management of the V&A want to reverse their predecessors’ lack of interest…

The Spectator’s notes

29 October 2015 3:00 pm

An enjoyable aspect of parliamentary rules and conventions is that almost no one understands them. This has become acutely true…

Charles Moore’s Notes: The government needs someone who knows how Parliament works

29 October 2015 9:00 am

An enjoyable aspect of parliamentary rules and conventions is that almost no one understands them. This has become acutely true…

Charles Moore’s Notes: If we want to save the elephant, we must legalise the ivory trade

24 October 2015 9:00 am

How good a deal for Britain is it that the president of China got a state visit and a nuclear…

Charles Moore’s Notes: If we want to save the elephant, we must legalise the ivory trade

22 October 2015 2:00 pm

How good a deal for Britain is it that the president of China got a state visit and a nuclear…

Charles Moore’s Notes: Diane the Posh Goddess and Osborne’s mania

17 October 2015 8:00 am

When I arrived at Cambridge in 1975, a nervous freshman, I remember walking with a friend past Newnham and being…

Charles Moore’s Notes: Diane the Posh Goddess and Osborne’s mania

15 October 2015 2:00 pm

When I arrived at Cambridge in 1975, a nervous freshman, I remember walking with a friend past Newnham and being…

Charles Moore’s notes: Boris’s brilliance; Labour’s Joe McCarthy

10 October 2015 9:00 am

Maybe it was because of the contrast with Theresa May’s chilly, disingenuous monotone minutes before, but I really think Boris…

Charles Moore’s notes: Boris’s brilliance; Labour’s Joe McCarthy

8 October 2015 2:00 pm

Maybe it was because of the contrast with Theresa May’s chilly, disingenuous monotone minutes before, but I really think Boris…