The Week
Barometer
You can’t do that there ’ere Some of the things which have been banned under Public Spaces Protection Orders, according to…
Diary
Just as the presidential race in America started to get really crazy, I left for India. On the morning of…
The last of Henry James
From ‘Henry James’, The Spectator, 4 March 1916: Englishmen are not likely ever to forget the generous thought which inspired…
Letters
What might have been Sir: Harry Mount points out that Boris Johnson is two years older than David Cameron (Diary,…
Portrait of the week
Home An official analysis by the Cabinet Office said that if Britain left the EU it would lead to a…
If the migrant crisis goes on like this, there may be no EU for Britain to leave
Imagine if Nigel Farage declared that police should be ready to shoot migrants trying to make it from Calais to…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, having continued talks through the night in Brussels, announced that he had achieved a ‘special status’ for…
Boris and Dave’s schoolboy rivalry is journalistic wishful thinking
The Prime Minister is pretty angry with Boris. But the idea that they’ve competed with each other since school is…
No second EU referendum? Tell that to the Danes and the Irish
Vote no, vote often David Cameron scorned Boris Johnson’s idea that voting to leave the EU might result in further…
Ancient Roman advice on how to deal with bouncers
The papers are full of top stories about important people who cannot get into important parties because the doorman does…
What we’re fighting for
From ‘Justice and Security’, The Spectator, 26 February 1916: If the conditions upon which we are willing to make peace…
Australian letters
Maaaate Sir: The most remarkable feature of Scott Morrison’s address to the National Press Club last week was that he…
Driven to extremes
Imagine if Nigel Farage declared that police should be ready to shoot migrants trying to make it from Calais to…
Seneca on bouncers
The papers are full of top stories about important people who cannot get into important parties because the doorman does…
Barometer
Vote no, vote often David Cameron scorned Boris Johnson’s idea that voting to leave the EU might result in further…
Diary
The Prime Minister is pretty angry with Boris. But the idea that they’ve competed with each other since school is…
What we’re fighting for
From ‘Justice and Security’, The Spectator, 26 February 1916: If the conditions upon which we are willing to make peace…
Letters
In defence of the heads Sir: It is fair for Ysenda Maxtone Graham to criticise heads who garner publicity but…
Australian letters
Maaaate Sir: The most remarkable feature of Scott Morrison’s address to the National Press Club last week was that he…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, having continued talks through the night in Brussels, announced that he had achieved a ‘special status’ for…
Whether or not Britain leaves, the EU must change or fall apart
David Cameron’s attempt to renegotiate Britain’s EU membership has served as a powerful reminder of the case for leaving. The…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, spent time in Brussels before a meeting of the European Council to see what…
From the start, I knew I’d be the Independent’s last print editor
I knew, the minute my job was first mooted, on the steps of San Francesco church in the sun-drenched, mafia-infested…
The legend of the honest estate agent
Selling with honesty An Essex estate agent sold a flat in Westcliff-on-Sea for £22,500 over the £125,000 asking price after…
Oscars goodie bags should take a tip from the Roman emperors
There was something admirable about the spirit of careful mockery behind the doggy bags on offer to the finalists in…
