The Week
Letters
Going Dutch Sir: As a Dutch man who lives in Britain, I found it heartening to read two such different…
Portrait of the week
Trump news Theresa May, the Prime Minister, let it be known that she was ‘very happy’ about having extended an…
Victims of hysteria
This week, 49,000 gay men were granted posthumous pardons. Had Harold Macmillan’s government taken notice of this magazine in 1957…
Victims of hysteria
This week, 49,000 gay men were granted posthumous pardons. Had Harold Macmillan’s government taken notice of this magazine in 1957…
Nero’s tips for Trump
A Washington Post interview with ‘senior officials’ in the Trump White House reveals that ‘Trump… feels demoralised that the public’s…
Barometer
Trump’s rivals More than 1.7m people signed a petition on Parliament’s website demanding that Donald Trump’s state visit be cancelled,…
Tax demand
From ‘Lenders and taxpayers’, The Spectator, 3 February 1917: As to the general financial soundness of the country there can be…
Letters
Going Dutch Sir: As a Dutch man who lives in Britain, I found it heartening to read two such different…
Australian letters
Hotspots Sir: No less than sixteen UN member nations formally ‘forbid Israeli passport holders to enter’. It is, I think,…
Portrait of the week
Trump news Theresa May, the Prime Minister, let it be known that she was ‘very happy’ about having extended an…
Victims of hysteria
This week, 49,000 gay men were granted posthumous pardons. Had Harold Macmillan’s government taken notice of this magazine in 1957…
Beyond words
In his inaugural speech last week, the new President Trump said, among much else, the ‘American carnage’ of poverty, ignorance…
Barometer
Nuclear near-misses It was revealed that last June an unarmed Trident missile test-fired off Florida from a British submarine headed…
Diary
Did you know that if you use the f-word while talking to a BT representative, they hang up on you?…
Australian letters
Real Invasion Day Sir: Australians will be celebrating Australia Day as people living in freedom in a beautiful and truly…
Portrait of the week
Home The Supreme Court ruled by eight to three that, without an act of Parliament, the government could not effectually…
Trading places
President Trump dislikes multilateral trade deals, preferring nation-to-nation ones
Letters
What is a university? Sir: As a former Russell Group vice chancellor, I think that Toby Young’s appeal for more universities…
Trading places
After any other US election it would cause little comment that the new president had chosen the British Prime Minister…
Beyond words
In his inaugural speech last week, the new President Trump said, among much else, the ‘American carnage’ of poverty, ignorance…
Barometer
Nuclear near-misses It was revealed that last June an unarmed Trident missile test-fired off Florida from a British submarine headed…
Diary
Did you know that if you use the f-word while talking to a BT representative, they hang up on you?…
Australian letters
Real Invasion Day Sir: Australians will be celebrating Australia Day as people living in freedom in a beautiful and truly…
Letters
What is a university? Sir: As a former Russell Group vice chancellor, I think that Toby Young’s appeal for more universities…
Portrait of the week
Home The Supreme Court ruled by eight to three that, without an act of Parliament, the government could not effectually…
