The Week
Australian letters
Religion of peace? Sir: Chris Ashton (“It’s the religion, stupid”, 18 June 2016) refers to Christianity’s “relative peacefulness, especially today”.…
A vote of confidence
During the referendum campaign, it seemed at times as if a competition was on to issue the most hyperbolic claim…
Rome’s Hilton
A traitor to one man is a hero to another. So debate rages around the role of David Cameron’s old…
Barometer
Repeat until fade More than three million voters disappointed by the result of the EU referendum have signed a petition…
Diary
Referendum day is as nondescript and wet as the day before, happily spent in Cambridge at my son’s Leo’s graduation.…
Preparing for peacetime
From ‘Preparation for peace’, The Spectator, 1 July 1916: All industrial development relies in the last resort upon human energy,…
Australian letters
Religion of peace? Sir: Chris Ashton (“It’s the religion, stupid”, 18 June 2016) refers to Christianity’s “relative peacefulness, especially today”.…
Letters
A rational vote Sir: There has been a lot of bile poured out about those who voted Leave by the…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, standing in the middle of Downing Street with his wife Samantha alone near him, announced his resignation…
Australian letters
Far from home Sir: Michael Davis defines conservatism as a sense of place and a love of home (Conservative Notes,…
Can you forgive him?
David Cameron bet everything on winning this European Union referendum. He lost. His resignation was inevitable, but the timing was not.…
Portrait of the week
Home One week before the United Kingdom voted in a referendum on membership of the European Union, Jo Cox, a…
Diary
It was a nice touch that MPs sat in each other’s seats in the Commons during the tributes to Jo…
Barometer
Big game hunt Wales beat Russia 3–0 to finish above England in their group at the European Football Championships. Which…
Cicero’s Brexit moment
If Remain has won, for all the political and financial flurries, it will be business as usual for us plebs.…
Who is this again?
From ‘English or British?’, The Spectator, 25 June 1916: We wish that this question of ‘England’ or ‘Britain’ could be settled satisfactorily,…
Can you forgive him?
David Cameron bet everything on winning this European Union referendum. He lost. His resignation was inevitable, but the timing was not.…
Australian letters
Far from home Sir: Michael Davis defines conservatism as a sense of place and a love of home (Conservative Notes,…
Cicero’s Brexit moment
If Remain has won, for all the political and financial flurries, it will be business as usual for us plebs.…
Barometer
Big game hunt Wales beat Russia 3–0 to finish above England in their group at the European Football Championships. Which…
Diary
It was a nice touch that MPs sat in each other’s seats in the Commons during the tributes to Jo…
Who is this again?
From ‘English or British?’, The Spectator, 25 June 1916: We wish that this question of ‘England’ or ‘Britain’ could be settled satisfactorily,…
Letters
European identity Sir: Alexander Chancellor (Long life, 18 June) echoes the widely accepted view of the European Union as a ‘bulwark…
Portrait of the week
Home One week before the United Kingdom voted in a referendum on membership of the European Union, Jo Cox, a…
Out – and into the world
The Spectator has a long record of being isolated, but right. We supported the north against the slave-owning south…
