I can’t get no Satiesfaction
After peaking at around the tenth instalment, birthday celebrations get progressively less interesting, for their subjects at least. I remember…
I can’t get no Satiesfaction
After peaking at around the tenth instalment, birthday celebrations get progressively less interesting, for their subjects at least. I remember…
Friel good factor
Does anyone believe Brian Friel’s libellous blarney? He portrays Ireland in the 20th century as an economic basket case where…
Friel good factor
Does anyone believe Brian Friel’s libellous blarney? He portrays Ireland in the 20th century as an economic basket case where…
Fifty shades of grey
Grey men in grey overcoats walking through grey architecture. If you had to pick an image to reflect the current…
Fifty shades of grey
Grey men in grey overcoats walking through grey architecture. If you had to pick an image to reflect the current…
Accentuate the positive
Fifty years ago on Monday the World Service programme Outlook was launched as an innovative news and current affairs programme…
Accentuate the positive
Fifty years ago on Monday the World Service programme Outlook was launched as an innovative news and current affairs programme…
Soaking wet at Songkran
Songkran is not the best time of year to be a correspondent in Pattaya. It’s not that the story you’re…
Election diary
As a first time candidate in a volatile election, with a member retiring after 43 years, I was keen to…
Bridge
The magnificent English Ladies have won another gold medal at the Europeans in Budapest. They have won medals in the…
Old news to Speccie readers
The Coalition has embarked upon a risky Labor-style experiment, hoping Mr Turnbull’s sugar hit in the polls will see them…
Is Brexit’s impact coming at us like a derailed train – or am I panic-mongering?
I enjoyed the Daily Mail’s lambasting of the Financial Times as ‘panic-monger-in-chief’ for its doom-laden post-Brexit tone: ‘Is it determined…
A sad new British status symbol: the second passport in the bedside drawer
I suppose I could probably get a Polish passport. Both of my maternal grandparents were Poles, displaced by war and…
For the first time, I feel ashamed to be British
Before even writing this I know what response it will meet. Some who fought for Leave on 23 June will…
The Spectator’s notes
Before she was murdered, Jo Cox MP had written most of a report. She worked on it jointly it with…
And your point, Professor?
Pop idol turned top boffin Brian Cox doesn’t shy away from the big issues. With programmes such as Wonders of…
Forget the Grand Mess, here’s the fun stuff
There’s something a little-dispiriting about waking up one morning to find that our elected politicians are even more psychopathic, deranged…
Groupthink in the media and political classes
Never have so few done so little for so many. That more or less sums up our political class in…
Robots are our friends
We have watched too many-movies. To our cinema-flamed imaginations the robots of the future are silken-voiced and pliant like Scarlett…
To boldly go…
When Frederick Simms and Evelyn Ellis first introduced the motor car to the roads of the United Kingdom in 1895,…
What are the odds on that?
Sixteen years ago last month, the organisers of a party at the Sports Cafe on Haymarket heralded a sports betting…
The power of working together
BAE Systems is one of the largest defence and security companies in the world, employing 83,400 people across 40 different…
Investing in the future
We might not have our own Silicon Valley (although we do have ‘Silicon Fen’ in Cambridgeshire and the ‘Silicon Roundabout’…
Cover 9 July 2016
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