The Week
Mob law
Frenzied outrage from Leavers and comical paeans of praise from Remainers greeted the High Court’s decision to instruct government that Parliament…
Diary
Seeing Trump win reminds me of a season of Dynasty in which my character, Alexis, ran for governor of Colorado…
Conditions for surrender
From ‘How to Shorten the War. I. Prisoners’, The Spectator, 11 November 1916: Unless we altogether mistake the mental character of…
Letters
A downbeat Brexiteer Sir: Alexander Chancellor (Long Life, 22 October) wondered why Brexiteers were not more upbeat about their victory.…
Portrait of the week
Home Theresa May, the Prime Minister, said she still expected to start talks on leaving the EU as planned by…
Barometer
Strike force Nissan is to expand its plant in Sunderland, building two new models there. The Japanese company is praised for…
Love and death
From ‘Romance’, The Spectator, 4 November 1916: There is indeed a glamour and a pathos about the private soldier, especially when, as so…
A passage to India
When a Prime Minister flies off abroad with a few business-leaders it is seldom worthy of comment. Such trade missions…
Letters
An MP’s first duty Sir: Toby Young writes (Status anxiety, 29 October) that Zac Goldsmith’s decision to campaign for Leave in…
Portrait of the Week
Home Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, said he would stay on for another year when his…
Hippocrates’ prescription
Doctors are being urged not to tell patients what is best for them but to lay out the options and…
Diary
Polite, well-heeled New Hampshire is the last place you’d expect to see a voodoo doll. But there it was, pointed…
A passage to India
When a Prime Minister flies off abroad with a few business-leaders it is seldom worthy of comment. Such trade missions…
Hippocrates’ prescription
Doctors are being urged not to tell patients what is best for them but to lay out the options and…
Barometer
Strike force Nissan is to expand its plant in Sunderland, building two new models there. The Japanese company is praised for…
Diary
Polite, well-heeled New Hampshire is the last place you’d expect to see a voodoo doll. But there it was, pointed…
Love and death
From ‘Romance’, The Spectator, 4 November 1916: There is indeed a glamour and a pathos about the private soldier, especially when, as so…
Letters
An MP’s first duty Sir: Toby Young writes (Status anxiety, 29 October) that Zac Goldsmith’s decision to campaign for Leave in…
Portrait of the Week
Home Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, said he would stay on for another year when his…
Corbyn and the Old Oligarch
With the Labour party reduced to a cult in honour of the vain and incompetent Jeremy Corbyn, the Tory party…
Barometer
Folio society A new collection of Shakespeare’s work credits Christopher Marlowe as co-author of the three Henry VI plays. Some…
A deadly silence
From ‘Secrecy and disease’, The Spectator, 28 October 1916: The war might have damned us, as Germany planned, but it…
Letters
Bear baiting Sir: I couldn’t agree more with Rod Liddle’s exposé of western politico-militaristic hypocrisy (‘Stop the sabre-rattling’, 22 October). We’ve…
Portrait of the week
Home The government approved the proposal in Sir Howard Davies’s report for the building of an extra 3,800-yard runway at…
Diary
I have never met Donald Trump, but I knew his parents. A fact that makes me feel about 100 years…
