The Week
Portrait of the week: Government surpluses, desperate Donald and a prisons meltdown
Home Government finances were in surplus by £2 billion in July. Public sector net debt rose to £1,777.5 billion, equal to 84.3…
Richard Madeley: Thanks to Gavin Williamson, everyone is calling me ‘the Terminator’
Down here near Nice, you find most locals unsurprised by the catastrophic Genoa bridge collapse. The Italian border is only…
How bad is the drugs problem in British jails?
Cultured tastes Dawn Butler accused Jamie Oliver of ‘cultural appropriation’ for coming up with his own recipe for jerk rice.…
Australian letters
No go zone Sir: In the leading article of the Spectator Australia (‘Outrage over Anning’, 18 August) it is warned…
Terrorism isn’t ‘losing’. It has already lost
By now, the routine is familiar: a lone wolf strikes, roads are sealed off, buildings locked down and a biographical…
Portrait of the Week: Westminster attack, House of Fraser and bridge collapse
Home Unemployment fell by 65,000 to 1.36 million — at 4 per cent the lowest level since 1975. The economy…
Ayesha Hazarika’s Edinburgh diary: The most offensive thing about Boris’s burka joke? It wasn’t original
Taking my new stand-up show Girl on Girl to the Edinburgh festival this year and playing at the prestigious venue…
Where does our food actually come from?
Black list Jeremy Corbyn was attacked for attending a ceremony for members of Black September, the terrorist group which carried…
Australian letters
Turnbull tragedy Sir: The 11 August Spectator Australia neglects to mention Malcolm Turnbull’s great gift to the Australian people. Our…
Boris wars
Ever since Boris Johnson resigned as foreign secretary, it was generally assumed that there would — in time — be…
Boris and burkas; Jeremy Corbyn and anti-Semitism; Donald Trump and Iran
Home Brandon Lewis, the chairman of the Conservative party, demanded that Boris Johnson, the former foreign secretary, should apologise for…
Why British weather is like a bad boyfriend
The British weather is just like the worst boyfriend. The kind that keeps you in a state of permanent insecurity…
Let’s hear your ‘logos’, Jeremy Corbyn
Jeremy Corbyn regularly apologises on the subject of anti-Semitism, yet admits that he has done nothing wrong. So what does…
Letters
Why we love Boris Sir: Stephen Robinson is right: Boris Johnson is not loathed outside the Westminster bubble (‘Brexit means Boris’,…
Now May’s talking tough over Brexit, we might actually get somewhere
Ever since Theresa May declared that ‘no deal is better than a bad deal’ she has seemed to be drifting…
Susan Hill’s diary: The return of the eels
The swifts had not arrived by June, nary a one, though a Yorkshire Dales friend reported their return, and there…
Portrait of the week: ‘Project Fear’, Labour’s anti-Semitism row (continued) and Jeremy Hunt’s wife gaffe
Home When families and doctors are in agreement, medical staff will be able to remove tubes supplying food and water…
Are Britain’s railways really the envy of the world?
Ranking railways A director of the Rail Delivery Group claimed that Britain’s railways were the ‘envy of Europe’. Could it…
Victory is nigh
From ‘The fifth year of war’, 3 August 1918: There are those who think that Germany will try to regain…
Letters: What is the point of pandering to children?
Memories of drought Sir: I read your leading article with interest as I well remember the hardship caused by the…
We need to turn the tide on poor water planning
The year 1976 rises like a spectre whenever the sun shines for more than a few days. That long, dry,…
Portrait of the week: Labour’s anti-Semitic row, public-sector pay rises and Greek forest fires
Home Dame Margaret Hodge accused Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, of being an ‘anti-Semite’ and a ‘racist’ in front of…
Boris Johnson: Why we should chuck Chequers
Surely there is a bit of humbug in this outrage about the two remaining jihadi Beatles, Kotey and Elsheikh, and…
Who throws acid at whom?
Relax Asked about her spare time, Theresa May said she liked walking, cooking (she has 150 cookbooks) and watching the…
Water, water, everywhere
Given that we use only 2 per cent of the rain that falls on these islands, one would not think…
