The Week
Mob law
Frenzied outrage from Leavers and comical paeans of praise from Remainers greeted the High Court’s decision to instruct government that Parliament…
Conditions for surrender
From ‘How to Shorten the War. I. Prisoners’, The Spectator, 11 November 1916: Unless we altogether mistake the mental character of…
America’s retreat
Donald Trump predicted that his election would be ‘Brexit times ten’ — which, as far as the stockmarket reaction was…
Letters
A downbeat Brexiteer Sir: Alexander Chancellor (Long Life, 22 October) wondered why Brexiteers were not more upbeat about their victory.…
Diary
Seeing Trump win reminds me of a season of Dynasty in which my character, Alexis, ran for governor of Colorado…
Portrait of the week
Home Theresa May, the Prime Minister, said she still expected to start talks on leaving the EU as planned by…
America’s retreat
Donald Trump predicted that his election would be ‘Brexit times ten’ — which, as far as the stockmarket reaction was…
Mob law
Frenzied outrage from Leavers and comical paeans of praise from Remainers greeted the High Court’s decision to instruct government that Parliament…
Diary
Seeing Trump win reminds me of a season of Dynasty in which my character, Alexis, ran for governor of Colorado…
Conditions for surrender
From ‘How to Shorten the War. I. Prisoners’, The Spectator, 11 November 1916: Unless we altogether mistake the mental character of…
Letters
A downbeat Brexiteer Sir: Alexander Chancellor (Long Life, 22 October) wondered why Brexiteers were not more upbeat about their victory.…
Portrait of the week
Home Theresa May, the Prime Minister, said she still expected to start talks on leaving the EU as planned by…
Barometer
Strike force Nissan is to expand its plant in Sunderland, building two new models there. The Japanese company is praised for…
Love and death
From ‘Romance’, The Spectator, 4 November 1916: There is indeed a glamour and a pathos about the private soldier, especially when, as so…
A passage to India
When a Prime Minister flies off abroad with a few business-leaders it is seldom worthy of comment. Such trade missions…
Letters
An MP’s first duty Sir: Toby Young writes (Status anxiety, 29 October) that Zac Goldsmith’s decision to campaign for Leave in…
Portrait of the Week
Home Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, said he would stay on for another year when his…
Hippocrates’ prescription
Doctors are being urged not to tell patients what is best for them but to lay out the options and…
Diary
Polite, well-heeled New Hampshire is the last place you’d expect to see a voodoo doll. But there it was, pointed…
A passage to India
When a Prime Minister flies off abroad with a few business-leaders it is seldom worthy of comment. Such trade missions…
Hippocrates’ prescription
Doctors are being urged not to tell patients what is best for them but to lay out the options and…
Barometer
Strike force Nissan is to expand its plant in Sunderland, building two new models there. The Japanese company is praised for…
Diary
Polite, well-heeled New Hampshire is the last place you’d expect to see a voodoo doll. But there it was, pointed…
Love and death
From ‘Romance’, The Spectator, 4 November 1916: There is indeed a glamour and a pathos about the private soldier, especially when, as so…
Letters
An MP’s first duty Sir: Toby Young writes (Status anxiety, 29 October) that Zac Goldsmith’s decision to campaign for Leave in…
