How Truss plans to bring the Bank of England to heel
Liz Truss believes the Bank of England has lost control of inflation. If chosen as the country’s next prime minister,…
Why Liz Truss is right to say ‘forecasts are not destiny’
‘Forecasts are not destiny,’ said Liz Truss in last night’s debate: a remark that has drawn alarm in some quarters. If…
Britain should follow Trump’s lead over Jerusalem
Liz Truss has signalled a historic shift in British foreign policy by saying she would review the location of the…
The halcyon days of Anglo-German relations
In Brenners, Germany’s grandest grand hotel, in Baden-Baden, Germany’s smartest spa town, there’s a corner of a foreign drawing room…
How ‘taking the knee’ spoiled football
Premier League footballers ‘taking a knee’ came in at the tail end of the 2019-20 season, when stadiums were empty…
Ukraine’s fate may rest on a mild winter
Russia is once again relying on ‘General Winter’. Instead of freezing German advances on Moscow, the plan today is to…
The myth that Hiroshima was necessary
If you think the falsehoods spilling out of Ukraine about casualties and atrocities are shocking, meet the greatest lie of…
Whose voice?
Here we go again. No sooner is Labor elected than they claim a mandate to create an institution that will…
Brown study
When I was an MP, ‘details’ was my middle name. Whenever we had a brain-snap about the latest way to…
Primeval Voice
So, Archie Roach is dead at 66. It’s hard to read of the artistic triumphs and the personal catastrophes without…
Aussie Life
I read in the Australian last week that the Queensland parliament is considering criminalising stealthing. And no, that’s not a…
Language
A Speccie reader has alerted me to the use of an odd word ‘alum’ to refer to the graduates of…
Holding water
It is clear that the country will soon need a Water Czar. Augustus’s right-hand man Agrippa would be the one…
Letters
Injured party Sir: Prue Leith’s short interlude as a Conservative party member and subsequent resignation underlines a feature of the…
