The Week
Portrait of the week: Around 60 killed as US embassy opens in Jerusalem
Home Wages rose quicker than inflation in the first quarter of 2018, at an annual rate of 2.9 per cent,…
My fans say I could have won the Nobel – if it wasn’t for the bizarre sex
The family ranch, which my father acquired when I was about six years of age, lay along the banks of…
What do Gammons really think of gammon-gate?
Gammon vs gammon Controversy raged over whether calling an angry, white, right-wing man a ‘gammon’ is racist. The insult is…
Brexit and sovereignty
Brexiteers argue for ‘sovereignty’, i.e. that Brexit should release us entirely from the grip of Europe, leaving us free to…
Letters: My Iranian friends hate the mullahs and want them to be got rid of
Iran’s hated regime Sir: I disagree with the analysis of Christopher de Bellaigue (‘Trump’s folly’, 12 May). The Iranians I know,…
Who’s afraid of cryptocurrency? It could be the answer to our ills
Since its inception, cryptocurrency has been regarded as technically fascinating but fundamentally unreliable. Those who invested £10 in Bitcoin eight…
The perils of speaking in public
I spend my life moving. Over recent years it was research. Now it’s caused by that research. But I have…
Portrait of the week: Trump withdraws from the ‘horrible, one-sided’ Iranian nuclear deal
Home Although the world was led to believe that, thanks to the vote of Sajid Javid, the new Home Secretary,…
Alfie Evans and a matter of life and death
Alfie Evans was seven months old when he went to hospital with seizures. When more than a year later doctors…
All peril on the Western Front
From ‘The situation on the Western Front in light of the Paris speech’, 11 May 1918: Instead of the Western…
Letters: Capitalism’s merits are debatable when it comes to public services
Where capitalism fails Sir: James Delingpole is right, of course, to extol the virtues of capitalism (‘We don’t deserve capitalism’,…
The power of Momentum: the right have underestimated the power behind Corbyn
The local elections have thrown up a paradox. In theory, Britain has never had more devolution: we have assemblies in…
In defence of Olly Robbins
After reading Christopher Isherwood’s Lions and Shadows, Somerset Maugham remarked: ‘That young man holds the future of the English novel…
Portrait of the week: Brexit, Windrush resignations and the march of the toxic moth
Home The prospect of Brexit in name only hovered on the horizon as the government contemplated an association agreement with…
Barometer: The top four worst microphone gaffes
Is this thing on? Sainsbury’s Chief Executive Mike Coupe was recorded singing ‘We’re in the Money’ as he prepared to…
Transgenderism and the Iliad
A couple of weeks ago a reader (Emma Lyons) queried Taki, the High Life professor of ancient Greek culture and…
Letters: Rod Liddle is right, Toby Young is wrong and Bruce Anderson must stop
Campaign for real cricket Sir: Geoffrey Wheatcroft’s splendid article ‘Cricket, unlovely cricket’ (28 April) remonstrated against the threat to Test…
Kim Jong-un could play Trump like a $10 fiddle. Here’s how
Last year, Donald Trump called Kim Jong-un a ‘little rocket man’ and tweeted a photo boasting that his own nuclear…
Enoch Powell wasn’t racist – he just craved attention
Dining in splendour beneath Van Dycks as we forked in the delicious venison, it was hard not to agree with…
Portrait of the week: a new royal baby, more Brexit rows and the Trump-Macron bromance
Home No. 10 insisted: ‘We will not be staying in the customs union or joining a customs union.’ The undertaking…
Worried about owning your own home? You should be
Kill or cure An anti-war protester on a march against the Syrian missile attacks claimed that President Assad couldn’t be…
The staple of our strength
From ‘News of the week’, 27 April 1918: The Navy has come altogether into its own again. The details of…
Letters: When did nationalists lose their sense of humour?
Resetting Brexit Sir: I agree with Fraser Nelson’s article ‘Brexit blunders’ (21 April). I am a Leaver, but immigration did…
A home truth for the Tories: fix the housing crisis or lose power for ever
Much rot is spoken about how the young have it so bad. In fact, this generation is healthier, richer and…
Racism and the RSC: why I was a sitting duck for the arts mob
Our ducks are back. Two wild mallard have spent the last five springs on the brook which gurgles past us…
