Long life

28 July 2016 1:00 pm

The Cabinet Office has confirmed that Sir Philip Green’s knighthood is under investigation because of his part in the destruction…

Long life

28 July 2016 1:00 pm

The Cabinet Office has confirmed that Sir Philip Green’s knighthood is under investigation because of his part in the destruction…

Low life

28 July 2016 1:00 pm

We returned to the house early the next morning, on the way pleading special permission to pass through the police…

Low life

28 July 2016 1:00 pm

We returned to the house early the next morning, on the way pleading special permission to pass through the police…

Wow!

28 July 2016 1:00 pm

Veronica has become quite an addict of Twitter, just as the rest of the young are forsaking it. ‘It’s easy…

Real life

28 July 2016 1:00 pm

The colourful banners at the Eurotunnel terminal at Calais spell out the words Treat Shop Relax Refresh Eat. But it…

Paddy Ashdown’s magical thinking

28 July 2016 1:00 pm

The dog days of July probably aren’t the best time to launch a new political movement, but then the people…

Paddy Ashdown’s magical thinking

28 July 2016 1:00 pm

The dog days of July probably aren’t the best time to launch a new political movement, but then the people…

Aspirin should be reassuringly expensive

28 July 2016 1:00 pm

Last year, those rationalist killjoys at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission prosecuted Reckitt Benckiser over four products: Nurofen Migraine…

Corbyn’s shadow puppets

28 July 2016 1:00 pm

Wrapped in his fantasy world of a Labour party ruling the country in accordance with the diktats of those of…

Barometer

28 July 2016 1:00 pm

Capitalist faces A report by the Business and Pensions select committees described Philip Green as the ‘unacceptable face of capitalism’.…

Diary

28 July 2016 1:00 pm

When asked to write the Spectator diary, I diligently collated a list of topics to cover. But the problem is…

The new Secretary for War

28 July 2016 1:00 pm

From ‘The military situation’, The Spectator, 29 July 1916: We have a new Secretary for War. Mr Lloyd George, as we all…

Letters

28 July 2016 1:00 pm

Better Europeans Sir: There are many reasons why a majority of people in the UK voted to leave the European…

Portrait of the week

28 July 2016 1:00 pm

Home The collapse of BHS after Sir Philip Green had extracted large sums and left the business on ‘life support’,…

Everything is illuminated

28 July 2016 1:00 pm

One could honour God with prayer, of course, and build cathedrals, amass treasuries, turn choirs into stained-glass jewel boxes, carve…

The lying game

28 July 2016 1:00 pm

JT LeRoy was a teenage hustler who emerged from a childhood of abuse, drug addiction and homelessness to write about…

Hang the DJs

28 July 2016 1:00 pm

Electronic Dance Music is dying. You may not have noticed. It may not affect you directly. But it’s a really…

Hang the DJs

28 July 2016 1:00 pm

Electronic Dance Music is dying. You may not have noticed. It may not affect you directly. But it’s a really…

Heavenly bodies

28 July 2016 1:00 pm

Initially it must have been a nasty surprise. On 16 August 1972 an amateur scuba diver named Stefano Mariottini was…

Heavenly bodies

28 July 2016 1:00 pm

Initially it must have been a nasty surprise. On 16 August 1972 an amateur scuba diver named Stefano Mariottini was…

Flawed genius

28 July 2016 1:00 pm

An inspired decision to stage Jesus Christ Superstar in a summer theatre in Regent’s Park. The action takes place outdoors,…

Flawed genius

28 July 2016 1:00 pm

An inspired decision to stage Jesus Christ Superstar in a summer theatre in Regent’s Park. The action takes place outdoors,…

French connection

28 July 2016 1:00 pm

It takes a particularly wilful wit to alight on Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict as the perfect operatic nod to a…

French connection

28 July 2016 1:00 pm

It takes a particularly wilful wit to alight on Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict as the perfect operatic nod to a…