The Week
Kingsley Amis on Lolita: It’s not pornographic enough
From ‘She was a child and I was a child’ by Kingsley Amis, 6 November 1959: The only success of…
Australian letters
Sidelined Sir: I strenuously object to David Flint’s assertion (“Footballers have rights too”, March 2) that Australia’s National Rugby League…
Who will safeguard our democracy if local news dies?
The announcement this week that Capital, Heart and Smooth radio are cutting back their local news shows might not in…
Portrait of the week: More Brexit discussions, Trump meets Kim Jong-un and India launches strikes on Pakistan
Home Theresa May said in the Commons that if MPs voted on 12 March against her draft withdrawal agreement with…
Alan Johnson’s diary: I’m not sure I’d have had the guts to join a new party
The separation between ‘members’ and ‘strangers’ always struck me as being one of the most archaic aspects of the House…
How much do you think it costs to travel from London to Manchester?
Success of the SDP The breakaway Labour MPs would have an uphill task emulating the SDP’s early success. It fought…
The aim of the Games
The Olympic Committee has added surfing, skateboarding and break-dancing to the events for the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2020.…
Australian letters
CO2 Sir: Will you or a politician please explain to the people the thermodynamics of how .038% of CO2 can…
Female unemployment has just hit an all-time low. So yes, Britain is working
At any other time, news that Honda intends to close its Swindon plant in two years’ time with the loss…
Portrait of the week: Resignations galore, Honda’s announcement and Islamic State’s brides
Home Seven MPs resigned from the Labour party and sat in the Commons (next to the DUP) as the Independent…
Maybe I should get naked during the next Brexit protest, too
A choppy week sitting in for Piers Morgan again on Good Morning Britain. One nude studio guest, a sprinkling of…
May needs to get dramatic over Brexit – and fast
It is becoming clearer by the day that Mrs May was right not to consult her colleagues, let alone the…
Letters: the history of centrist parties does not bode well for the ‘breakaway seven’
The breakaway seven Sir: ‘In both parties there are fools at one end and crackpots at the other, but the…
The EU and UK are one sentence away from a Brexit deal. Why the games?
Even the most fervent Brexiteer would have to admit to being impressed at the cohesion and chutzpah of the European…
Portrait of the week: More Brexit talks, more French protests and less horse racing
Home Theresa May, the Prime Minister, returned from a trip to Brussels and Dublin and hurried to the Commons to…
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Jess Phillips: The message I’ve been forced to send Luciana Berger too many times
‘You OK?’ was the message I sent to Luciana Berger last week. As I scroll back through our previous WhatsApp…
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Brexiteers have ‘a special place in hell’ – but who else has a spot there?
Places in Hell President Donald Tusk said there must be a ‘special place in Hell reserved for those who promoted…
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How to get away with being a tyrant
Last week, in an effort to understand what that left-wing hero Nicolás Maduro, President of Venezuela, must be suffering, Hieron,…
Australian letters
What have we learned in 2,074 years? Sir: “The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt…
Why David Harding’s £100 million Cambridge donation might save capitalism
The British are said to be among the most generous people on earth. When it comes to ordinary people scraping…
Portrait of the week: Theresa May goes to Brussels and Donald Trump to hold North Korea summit
Home Theresa May, the Prime Minister, went off to Brussels again to talk about ‘alternative arrangements’, for which parliament had…
Why Dior loved the English
‘There is no other country in the world, besides my own, whose way of life I like so much,’ enthused…
Poor old Nicolás Maduro
However much he is heroised by left-wingers, the Venezuelan ‘tyrant’ Nicolás Maduro must wonder what is in it for him.…
Letters: Why the hatred towards independent schools?
Fawning over China Sir: In reading your recent leading article on Huawei (‘Red-handed’, 2 February), I feel I should point out…
After Huawei, can we trust Chinese tech?
The world is a better place for China’s emergence from behind the bamboo curtain where it hid for half a…
