The Week
Australian letters
Lucky Sir: The customer attempting to have a good time in a gloomy pub (cartoon 03/06/17) should consider himself lucky.…
Portrait of the week
Home Theresa May, the Prime Minister, spent the week confronting the consequences of the general election that she had called…
Letters
Divining Rod Sir: Please congratulate Rod Liddle on being the only commentator who accurately forecast the uncertain general election result…
May needs her party
As if we needed reminding, this past week has shown that the Islamist threat is a truly global problem. In…
Letters
Terrorists’ guilt Sir: A small contribution to the psychological war: when the next atrocity happens, could the BBC and other…
Portrait of the week
Home Eight people were killed and 48 taken to hospital when three men, in a hire van travelling south shortly…
Diary
Hundreds of terrorists and suspected terrorists have gone through the British educational system. Yet amid all the pre-election talk about…
The post-truth is out there
In a political ‘post-truth’ world, currently the subject of a slew of books, emotions and personal belief are said to…
Diary
Hundreds of terrorists and suspected terrorists have gone through the British educational system. Yet amid all the pre-election talk about…
The potato’s finest hour
From ‘Our friends the vegetables’, 9 June 1917. The food shortage, and the consequent necessity of planting every available space with…
Diary
In such gorgeous weather the best part of Scotland to visit is not (as so many seem to think) the…
Our flying machines
From ‘News of the week’, The Spectator, 2 June 1917: There has been a lull on the Western front. It…
May’s mistakes
On the eve of the US presidential election, experts at Princeton university decided that Donald Trump had a 1 per…
Letters
Ignoring the hadith Sir: Douglas Murray and Jenny McCartney (‘The known wolf’ and ‘A war on joy’, 27 May) are…
Portrait of the week
Home The Conservatives grew restive when polls, for what they were worth, indicated a closing gap between their support and…
Tackling terror
Until last week, it was thought that the jihadi threat was subsiding and the security services were increasingly able to…
Australian letters
Double whammy Sir: David Flint complains about the way the media treats right-wing leaders (‘Worth losing the base?’, 20 May)…
Diary
The chances of my 20-year-old student son being at an Ariana Grande concert on a Monday night were, my head…
Portrait of the week
Home Twenty-two people were killed and 59 wounded by a man who blew himself up, with a bomb containing metal…
Letters
NHS in a mess Sir: Max Pemberton is quite right to say that the NHS is close to collapse, but…
Diary
On the heels of the Today programme’s invitation to discuss ‘cultural appropriation’ (again), the New York Times reported the disheartening…
A brave new world
From ‘The New Reform Bill’, The Spectator, 19 May 1917: Though we used to be opposed to the suffrage for women,…
Trump on the edge
Donald Trump has often wrong-footed the media. In last year’s election his campaign seemed to be always on the verge…
Letters
Libyan solution Sir: Boris Johnson correctly reports glimmers of hope in Libya, but to say its problems can be solved…
Barometer
Veggie skills Forest Green Rovers, described as the world’s first vegan football club, was promoted to the Football League. Some…
