The Week
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…
Diary
Flabby, vaguely disorientated and, more than three years on, still struggling with stroke recovery, I am on a radical diet.…
Barometer
Houses of ill repute The Austrian interior minister has suggested that his government will demolish the house where Adolf Hitler…
Plato on the EU referendum
Our politicians, realising that the referendum campaign will be settled not by themselves under the usual parliamentary constraints but by…
After the breakthrough
From ‘Verdun’, The Spectator, 16 June 1916: As has been proved again and again in this war, if you are willing to…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, threatened pensioners who voted in the referendum for Britain to leave the EU: ‘If…
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…
Plato on the EU referendum
Our politicians, realising that the referendum campaign will be settled not by themselves under the usual parliamentary constraints but by…
Barometer
Houses of ill repute The Austrian interior minister has suggested that his government will demolish the house where Adolf Hitler…
Diary
Flabby, vaguely disorientated and, more than three years on, still struggling with stroke recovery, I am on a radical diet.…
After the breakthrough
From ‘Verdun’, The Spectator, 16 June 1916: As has been proved again and again in this war, if you are willing to…
Australian letters
The Peta principle Sir: A besotted Richard Ferguson didn’t hold back on the superlatives in his pean to Peta Credlin…
Letters
The population problem Sir: Matthew Parris (11 June) dismisses worries over immigration as being based on race. This is a…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, threatened pensioners who voted in the referendum for Britain to leave the EU: ‘If…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, caused mild surprise by cancelling a cabinet meeting and hastily convening a press conference…
The Kitchener effect
From ‘Lord Kitchener’, The Spectator, 9 June 1916: The central fact in Kitchener’s administration of the War Office is that…
The leap
This week the Prime Minister devoted a speech to what he regarded as six lies being told by his opponents…
Rome vs Brussels
The principle of countries working harmoniously together is wholly admirable. Why, then, has the European Union become such a disaster area?…
Barometer
Boxing brains Muhammad Ali died aged 74, after more than 30 years with Parkinson’s Disease. How many boxers suffer brain…
