The Week
Diary
The week began badly when I spotted three grey squirrels gathering beechnuts in our arboretum. During our time at our…
The King’s contribution
From ‘A Royal contribution’, The Spectator, 7 October 1916: His Majesty has passed through troublous times, in the constitutional controversy, in…
Letters
Russia’s war crimes Sir: In his article ‘Vanity Bombing’ (15 October), Simon Jenkins quivers with contempt at MPs digging ‘deep into…
Portrait of the week
Home Steven Woolfe, the MEP who spent three days in hospital after an altercation at a Ukip meeting, said he…
Barometer
Fears of a clown Professional clowns complained that the current craze for scaring people by dressing in clown outfits was…
Diogenes vs Theresa May
‘If you are a citizen of the world, you are a citizen of nowhere,’ proclaimed Theresa May in a speech…
Letters
Cathedral going Sir: While I enjoyed much of Simon Jenkins’s analysis of why England’s cathedrals are thriving (‘Why cathedrals are…
Sea strategy
From ‘Decisive victory at sea’, The Spectator, 7 October 1916: The only excuse for changing our views of the magnificent rightness…
Portrait of the week
Home The pound fell against the dollar and the euro, weakening by 19 per cent against the dollar from its…
Universities challenged
On the face of it, this year’s Nobel Prize awards have been a triumph for British scientists. No fewer than…
Australian letters
Abstract profit Sir: I once worked in a factory opposite a sign writer who used a large panel to test…
Diary
To Edinburgh to get married, but first my toyboy groom John Playfair (he’s a mere 69) shows me the city…
Universities challenged
On the face of it, this year’s Nobel Prize awards have been a triumph for British scientists. No fewer than…
Diogenes vs Theresa May
‘If you are a citizen of the world, you are a citizen of nowhere,’ proclaimed Theresa May in a speech…
Barometer
Fears of a clown Professional clowns complained that the current craze for scaring people by dressing in clown outfits was…
Sea strategy
From ‘Decisive victory at sea’, The Spectator, 7 October 1916: The only excuse for changing our views of the magnificent rightness…
Letters
Cathedral going Sir: While I enjoyed much of Simon Jenkins’s analysis of why England’s cathedrals are thriving (‘Why cathedrals are…
Australian letters
Abstract profit Sir: I once worked in a factory opposite a sign writer who used a large panel to test…
Portrait of the week
Home The pound fell against the dollar and the euro, weakening by 19 per cent against the dollar from its…
Diary
To Edinburgh to get married, but first my toyboy groom John Playfair (he’s a mere 69) shows me the city…
Diary
Any day now, the government will make its long delayed announcement on whether a third runway should be built at…
Barometer
Tenement Scots John Cleese referred to the editor of this magazine as a ‘tenement Scot’. Do more Scots live in…
Augustus vs Jeremy Corbyn
Jeremy Corbyn has been re-elected leader of the Labour party not by MPs but by his teenage ‘fans’ in Momentum.…
Conscription in Ireland
From ‘More men’, The Spectator, 7 October 1916: Are we or are we not to apply compulsory service to Ireland? The…
Portrait of the Week
Home Theresa May, the Prime Minister, said at the Conservative party conference that hers was now the party of ‘working-class’…
