The Week
Borderline sanity
Only now does Angela Merkel concede that her admitting a million refugees last year was a mistake. It was obvious…
Australian letters
Beyond reason Sir: As an avowed atheist Matthew Parris asks an eloquent and critical question in regard to the achievement…
Borderline sanity
Only now does Angela Merkel concede that her admitting a million refugees last year was a mistake. It was obvious…
Pericles vs Juncker
The hopelessness of the EU is well demonstrated by the current rhetoric issuing from its inner chambers: that Britain must…
Diary
‘Are you here to seek political asylum?’ asked a clever young student after my lecture at the National University of…
Turning the tide
From ‘The Battle of the Somme’, The Spectator, 23 September 1916: It may prove to be the fact that the battle…
Letters
Remote control Sir: Rachel Wolf argues that in education policy ‘the trend, from Kenneth Baker onwards, has been towards giving…
Australian letters
Beyond reason Sir: As an avowed atheist Matthew Parris asks an eloquent and critical question in regard to the achievement…
Portrait of the week
Home Theresa May was ‘quite likely’ to invoke Article 50 in January or February 2017, Donald Tusk, the president of…
In defence of Asquith
From ‘Mr. Asquith’, The Spectator, 16 September, 1916: King George has no other subject who is trusted so widely by his…
Plato on grammar schools
Theresa May wants to use grammar schools to create a meritocratic, ‘socially mobile’ society at a cost of £50 million.…
Letters
What immigration debate? Sir: Henrik Jonsson says (Letters, 10 September) that Swedes ought to learn from the Brits how to maintain…
Portrait of the week
Home Schools in England would have the right to select pupils by ability, under plans outlined by Theresa May, the…
Defending Dave’s legacy
It is too early to tell what sort of Prime Minister Theresa May will turn out to be, but we…
Diary
The borderline between fact and fiction becomes ever hazier, I find. Last February, Daisy Goodwin — the author of the…
Defending Dave’s legacy
It is too early to tell what sort of Prime Minister Theresa May will turn out to be, but we…
Plato on grammar schools
Theresa May wants to use grammar schools to create a meritocratic, ‘socially mobile’ society at a cost of £50 million.…
Diary
The borderline between fact and fiction becomes ever hazier, I find. Last February, Daisy Goodwin — the author of the…
In defence of Asquith
From ‘Mr. Asquith’, The Spectator, 16 September, 1916: King George has no other subject who is trusted so widely by his…
Letters
What immigration debate? Sir: Henrik Jonsson says (Letters, 10 September) that Swedes ought to learn from the Brits how to maintain…
Portrait of the week
Home Schools in England would have the right to select pupils by ability, under plans outlined by Theresa May, the…
Portrait of the Week
Home David Davis, the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, made his first statement to the Commons and…