Battle for Britain
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Portrait of the week
Home Theresa May made a speech in the open air in Downing Street after kissing hands with the Queen as…
The Brexit effect
Perhaps the most surprising thing about Theresa May’s arrival at No. 10 is that it has given us back a…
Diary
These days, you only need to turn your back for five minutes and you’ve missed another horror. The Turkish coup…
Brown study
Melbourne is rejoicing today in a wonderful literary hoax that rivals the 1943 publication in Angry Penguins of the spoof…
Barometer
How Britannia got her trident Parliament voted to renew Trident as Britain’s independent nuclear deterrent. But what about Britannia and…
High life
From my bedroom window I can see a little girl with blonde pigtails riding her bicycle round and round for…
Sophocles vs the luvvie Remainers
Is the Labour leadership hopeful Owen Smith, who longs to reverse the obviously undemocratic outcome of the recent referendum, aware…
Lookist
In Competition No. 2957 you were invited to submit a poem with a title that is a twist on that…
Over the top
From ‘The Battle of the Somme’, The Spectator, 22 July 1916: What we seldom hear about is what Milton called the ‘raw…
Definitions
What is a bee? ‘A well-known insect,’ says the Oxford English Dictionary, passing the buck rather. Similarly, an ash is…
Letters
Our terrified youth Sir: Both Claire Fox’s ‘Generation Snowflake’ and Mary Wakefield’s recent column (What’s to blame for a generation’s…
Dishlicker’s diary
Mr Tom, pet greyhound of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1762-96), shared a bed with her lover, the colossal…
Enjoy the honeymoon, Theresa. It won’t last
Theresa May has been keen to stress that she doesn’t want this country or her government to be defined by…
In the steppes of the Golden Horde
When I first visited the complex of Buddhist cave grottoes, dating from the fifth to the 14th century, at Bezekilk…
Would you trust the public with a knife and fork?
I went to a restaurant in Middlesbrough back in the spring. It’s called the Brasserie Hudson Quay and occupies a…
Real life
Market day in Bergerac and the streets are paved with chicken bones. As a spaniel, I am bound to say…
Don’t knock ‘secret deals’. We’ll need one soon
As a founder member of the Guild of Blair-Bashers, someone who reacted strongly against him from our first encounter at…
Karjakin’s complaint
Sergey Karjakin, the challenger for Magnus Carlsen’s world title later this year, has announced in Bilbao, where he is contesting…
Hand over £25, or the centre-left gets it
In order to become a ‘registered supporter’ of the Labour party, you first have to disclose whether you’re a member…
2267: Double-edged Swords
The unclued lights are anagrams of words meaning ‘blessing’, hence 43A MIXED BLESSINGS. The words are 11A AGREEMENT, 31A BENISON, 34A…
Is the sale of our only global-scale tech firm to Japan a vote of confidence in the UK?
It’s easy to see why Arm Holdings, the UK’s only global-scale internet technology company, looked worth a quick £24 billion bet…
Dear Mary
Q. Since my husband began to appear in the Rich List he has become much more popular with ‘artists’ in…
American horror story
Cleveland, Ohio ‘Whatever complicates the world more — I do,’ Donald Trump once said. If you can’t decipher what that…
Cover 23 July 2016 AU
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