The Week
Letters
Amber warning Sir: James Forsyth’s interview with Amber Rudd (‘The Amber Express’, 19 March) was very revealing, but also slightly…
Portrait of the week
Home The Indian company Tata decided to sell its entire steel business in Britain, putting more than 15,000 jobs in…
Diary
I’d like this to have been one of those Spectator diaries that gives the ordinary reader a glimpse into the…
The jihad continues
On Tuesday morning Belgium was the latest European country to suffer a major terrorist attack. It is a disturbing reminder…
Portrait of the week
Home Iain Duncan Smith resigned as Work and Pensions Secretary two days after the Budget, throwing the government into a…
Diary
Killing time in a Heathrow first-class lounge, I notice how many men adopt an unmistakable ‘first-class lounge’ persona. They stand…
Barometer
Bottling out Does any country have experience of a sugary drinks tax? — Denmark introduced a tax on sweetened soft…
Cicero on regulating MPs
As Sir Kevin Barron, chair of the MPs’ ‘Standards’ committee, steps down so that his own MP-packed body can adjudicate…
Flying start
From ‘Common-sense and the command of the air’, The Spectator, 25 March 1916: The Air Service will be the great fighting…
Australian letters
Lefties Sir: Why is it that conservative commentators never promote the fact that Hitler and the Nazis were National Socialists?…
The jihad continues
On Tuesday morning Belgium was the latest European country to suffer a major terrorist attack. It is a disturbing reminder…
Cicero on regulating MPs
As Sir Kevin Barron, chair of the MPs’ ‘Standards’ committee, steps down so that his own MP-packed body can adjudicate…
Barometer
Bottling out Does any country have experience of a sugary drinks tax? — Denmark introduced a tax on sweetened soft…
Diary
Killing time in a Heathrow first-class lounge, I notice how many men adopt an unmistakable ‘first-class lounge’ persona. They stand…
Flying start
From ‘Common-sense and the command of the air’, The Spectator, 25 March 1916: The Air Service will be the great fighting…
Letters
PC and abortion Sir: It is heartwarming that Simon Barnes’s son should not suffer the stigma experienced by those with…
Australian letters
Lefties Sir: Why is it that conservative commentators never promote the fact that Hitler and the Nazis were National Socialists?…
Portrait of the week
Home Iain Duncan Smith resigned as Work and Pensions Secretary two days after the Budget, throwing the government into a…
Why Trump prevailed
The political climate that brought about his rise is in fact a worldwide phenomenon
Portrait of the week
Home In the Budget, George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, kept talking of the ‘next generation’. He outlined cuts…
Diary
To while away the time at airports, I like to spot celebrities. But pickings have been slim. Where is everyone?…
Barometer
Name that town The representative of Slough in the UK Youth Parliament called for the town’s name to be changed…
Safe space in ancient Athens
Brilliant Oxford undergraduates argue that it is right to prevent us saying things they object to, because speech they do…
Portugal’s choice
From ‘Portugal and the war’, The Spectator, 18 March 1916: Portugal in coming into the war may seem to have taken…
Australian letters
Christ you know it aint easy Sir: Andrew Bolt has allowed his vision of what happened to Cardinal George Pell…
