The Spectator’s notes
Surely there is a difference between Mark Carney’s intervention in the Scottish referendum last year and in the EU one…
Just what the doctor ordered
Every now and then, a costume drama comes along that’s so daringly unconventional as to make us re-examine our whole…
Round-up of new opera
A mixed year so far for new opera. A few really dismal things have appeared from people who should know…
Round-up of new opera
A mixed year so far for new opera. A few really dismal things have appeared from people who should know…
The smelly, snobbish death of the public loo
I blame Nancy Mitford: she made the English so frightened of saying ‘toilet’ that now they have hardly any left…
The prying game
Theresa May’s Investigatory Powers Bill makes pitifully little effort to define when heavy surveillance powers may or may not be used
Portrait of the week
Home An official analysis by the Cabinet Office said that if Britain left the EU it would lead to a…
Diary
Tucker Carlson’s diary: The aesthetic merits of British colonialism; Mumbai’s building boom; the ends of empires
Barometer
Also in our Barometer column: the boroughs with the most CCTV cameras, and Britain’s retail and steel industries
People power then and now
Why doesn’t our Prime Minister try the art of persuasion, instead of issuing threats?
The last of Henry James
From ‘Henry James’, The Spectator, 4 March 1916: Englishmen are not likely ever to forget the generous thought which inspired…
Will Cameron pull his punches to help the Tories reunite?
After the opening skirmishes the ‘inners’ are winning on the economy and the ‘outers’ on immigration
The Spectator’s notes
Also in The Spectator’s Notes: the significance of 23 June; why ‘leave’ can’t have a plan; The Simpsons and President Trump
What do all these evil maniacs have in common?
If it’s Islam, you can count on the BBC and the Guardian not to mention it
Are we ready for virtual-reality news?
All reports edit. Virtual-reality reporting may make that harder to remember
Of course the old Tory hatreds are back. That’s referendums for you
They have never really been on the same side, the two types of Tories. They have merely rubbed along
Better that the Americans take over the London Stock Exchange
Plus: Central bankers can’t go on like this; and why Barclays should stay in Africa
A conservative case for staying in
The Brexit camp want to risk decades of real peace and prosperity to attain a future full of implausibly rational statesmen
Of geese and men
The history of human-goose relationships shows how confused we are about our fellow animals
Who steals books?
In some places, it’s the Ottolenghis that have to be kept behind the counter. In others, it’s the true crime
Communism kills
We, unlike the Hungarians, are in danger of forgetting this ideology’s extraordinary death toll
