The Week
Barometer
Mary Queen of Golf? The vote by the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers to admit women as members has reawakened…
Diary
In the NHS clinic where I work, adults who suspect they may have Asperger syndrome wait almost a year for…
Disaster in the Dardanelles
From ‘The Dardanelles report’, 17 March 1917: The plan of the government in the case of the Dardanelles Expedition had…
Australian letters
Freedom fighter Sir: How sad is it that, in what turned out to be the last years of his life,…
Portrait of the week
Home Theresa May, the Prime Minister, decided to delay until later in the month the invoking of Article 50 of…
Hammond’s humiliation
After Philip Hammond delivered his Budget last week, he went to speak to a meeting of Conservative backbench MPs. Several…
Diary
Oh dear. Usually writers who contribute to these diaries start with something like, ‘To Paris. To launch my novel at…
America confronts Germany
From ‘The revelation of Germany to the United States’, 10 March 1917: Even if Mr Wilson stops short at his present…
Australian letters
Penalty rates Sir: The Fair Work Commission might want to know how much Tony Abbott is paying some of your…
Portrait of the Week
Home The Lords passed two amendments to the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill, voting by 358 to 256 to…
Ambition deficit
Some Budgets are historic, most are boring and a small number can be remembered as a disaster. After just a few months, Philip…
Enemies of the people
Hardly a week goes by without someone applauding Thomas Carlyle’s objection to democracy: ‘I do not believe in the collective…
Barometer
Naming the weather Former BBC weatherman Bill Giles has said he’s fed up with storms being named. — The practice…
Ambition deficit
Some Budgets are historic, most are boring and a small number can be remembered as a disaster. After just a few months, Philip…
Enemies of the people
Hardly a week goes by without someone applauding Thomas Carlyle’s objection to democracy: ‘I do not believe in the collective…
Barometer
Naming the weather Former BBC weatherman Bill Giles has said he’s fed up with storms being named. — The practice…
Diary
Oh dear. Usually writers who contribute to these diaries start with something like, ‘To Paris. To launch my novel at…
America confronts Germany
From ‘The revelation of Germany to the United States’, 10 March 1917: Even if Mr Wilson stops short at his present…
Australian letters
Penalty rates Sir: The Fair Work Commission might want to know how much Tony Abbott is paying some of your…
Letters
On Scottish independence Sir: Alex Massie writes of the order permitting a second Scottish independence referendum: ‘Having granted such an…
Portrait of the Week
Home The Lords passed two amendments to the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill, voting by 358 to 256 to…
No mumbling allowed
In the audience-free world of TV, where ‘acting’ and visuals have become of far greater importance than the actual words,…
Barometer
And the losers are… La La Land was mistakenly announced as winner of the Oscar for best picture before the…
Diary
A fortnight ago I got a taste of what being far too famous might feel like. A leak that I’m…
A model village
From ‘Sir Thomas Acland’s example’, The Spectator, 3 March 1917: In 1912 we discussed the idea — a favourite dream…
