Corbyn is untouchable now
There have been few more pathetic displays of political impotence than the tweets sent by shadow cabinet members paying tribute…
The Spectator’s Notes
At the end of next week, a judge will decide whether the ‘trial of the facts’ can proceed now that…
Coming up for air
Gosh what a breath of fresh air was Andrew Davies’s War & Peace adaptation (BBC1, Sundays) after all the stale…
Australian diary
What a long Parliamentary year it has been. But at last, as the Senate clock approaches midnight on the last…
Why we have to stand by the foul, brutal Saudis
The Saudis have got the new year off to a busy start, haven’t they? The authorities executed 47 people, including…
Soggy thinking
A fraction of the money we spend subsidising green energy could keep our homes truly safe from flooding
Portrait of the week
Home Thousands of houses were flooded in York, Leeds, Manchester and other parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire, after weeks of…
Diary
Also: my Muslim friends’ radicalisation worries; facts about Proust’s Paris; a Parisian dentist in London
Next year’s war
From ‘The Military Situation’, The Spectator, 1 January 1916: The opening of a new year is a time for taking stock…
The political wisdom of people who don’t even know what a circle is
Just because they might wish a shape to be a circle, that does not make it so
The best things in the world spring up by accident
And almost everything bad is the result of utopians trying to plan the world into a better state
The human element: highs, lows and loose ends of 2015
The human element: highs, lows and loose ends of 2015
I won’t be Corbyn’s man in London . . .
The Labour candidate is fighting the mayoral battle his way, but he’s still very much on the left
. . . and I won’t be Boris Mark II
The Tory mayoral contender explains how he plans to sell himself to a city that’s now solidly Labour
Bye, George
Respect has dwindled, his mayoral campaign has failed to catch fire, and several groups of investigators are circling…
From Celtic tiger to pussycat
You can see the legacy of the Celtic Tiger years, in good roads and boarded-up shops, but something different is now abroad
How to spot a charity snake
How do you know if a charity is changing lives? The government clearly has no idea
United Arab Emirates: Leaves in the desert
There are an increasing number of reasons, even if the sheikh doesn’t buy all the books himself this time
