The Week
Why Trump prevailed
If the Republican party were a company, it would now file for bankruptcy. Donald Trump, arguably the most grotesque candidate…
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…
Barometer
Name that town The representative of Slough in the UK Youth Parliament called for the town’s name to be changed…
Diary
To while away the time at airports, I like to spot celebrities. But pickings have been slim. Where is everyone?…
Portugal’s choice
From ‘Portugal and the war’, The Spectator, 18 March 1916: Portugal in coming into the war may seem to have taken…
Letters
More things to ban Sir: In the light of Mick Hume’s piece about politically correct students (‘The left will eat…
Australian letters
Christ you know it aint easy Sir: Andrew Bolt has allowed his vision of what happened to Cardinal George Pell…
Portrait of the week
Home In the Budget, George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, kept talking of the ‘next generation’. He outlined cuts…
Turkey’s blackmail
Looked at from the narrow perspective of how to deal with the lethal business of human trafficking across the Aegean,…
Portrait of the week
Home The Bank of England arranged for banks to be able to borrow as much money as they needed around…
Diary
Have you ever set your face against a book? This year sees Charlotte Brontë’s bicentenary and the novelist Tracy Chevalier…
Barometer
Lonely fortress Weoley Castle in Birmingham was revealed to be the least-visited tourist attraction in England, with 5,205 visitors last year. What…
Governor Cameron and the Brussels empire
Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the EU Commission, made a typically brilliant intervention in the EU referendum debate by arguing that…
Against Churchill
From ‘Colonel Churchill’, The Spectator, 11 March 1916: Colonel Churchill is being found out. The charm, once universal, no longer…
Australian Letters
Money for nothing Sir: The European Union, in its wisdom, announced last week that it would be granting a further…
Turkey’s blackmail
Looked at from the narrow perspective of how to deal with the lethal business of human trafficking across the Aegean,…
Governor Cameron and the Brussels empire
Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the EU Commission, made a typically brilliant intervention in the EU referendum debate by arguing that…
Barometer
Lonely fortress Weoley Castle in Birmingham was revealed to be the least-visited tourist attraction in England, with 5,205 visitors last year. What…
Diary
Have you ever set your face against a book? This year sees Charlotte Brontë’s bicentenary and the novelist Tracy Chevalier…
Against Churchill
From ‘Colonel Churchill’, The Spectator, 11 March 1916: Colonel Churchill is being found out. The charm, once universal, no longer…
Letters
Democracy or bureaucracy Sir: Professor Garton Ash makes a scholarly appeal for us all to be content with government from…
Australian Letters
Money for nothing Sir: The European Union, in its wisdom, announced last week that it would be granting a further…
Portrait of the week
Home The Bank of England arranged for banks to be able to borrow as much money as they needed around…
The prying game
One of the marks of a good Home Secretary is a healthy wariness of those in authority who come begging…
Portrait of the week
Home An official analysis by the Cabinet Office said that if Britain left the EU it would lead to a…
