Nice work
Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/merkelstragicmistake/media.mp3 You can’t play the part of Hamlet, only parts of Hamlet. And the bits Benedict Cumberbatch offers us…
First person diary
I hate first-person journalism, always have. In my early – olden – days as a copy boy with News’ Daily…
A goddess, a city and a tree
Known for her strength, Athena can throw a spear like a dart, and on the day of the contest for…
Bridge
The bridge world continues to be electrified by the scandal that Janet wrote about last week. Lotan Fisher and Ron…
Photo opportunity
Former Speccie columnist and would-be federal Treasurer Chris Bowen clearly is in need of a decent sub-editor to help him…
All those boardroom codes still can’t catch rogues and incompetents
Sir Adrian Cadbury, who has died aged 86, is remembered as the author in 1992 of a first stab at…
The NHS was great for Girl, but I still don’t like it
When Girl came off the horse it didn’t look like a bad fall. More like an involuntary and rather hurried…
The Spectator’s notes
Presumably Britain has some sort of policy on immigration, asylum and refugees, but instead of struggling to understand it, you…
Cock and bull
It’s hard to know whether the actor James Norton was being naive or disingenuous when he claimed in publicity interviews…
How Gordon Brown’s hit man became Labour’s peacemaker
Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/merkelstragicmistake/media.mp3 Last week I was talking to a member of the shadow cabinet about Jeremy Corbyn’s impending victory as…
Soon, having sex and having children will be utterly disconnected
What is tougher for a kid? To be born black in a predominantly white neighbourhood, or to be born to…
Elizabeth the Great
The second Elizabethan age has been an era of achievement – and the Queen deserves a significant share of the credit
Portrait of the week
Home The Government decided after all to retain the rules preventing ministers and their departments from publishing campaign material, ‘with…
Corbyn and the plebs
Rome’s plebs knew what they wanted – and got it. Do we need the MP for Islington North to tell us?
Muscular economics
From ‘War bonuses’, The Spectator, 4 September 1915: War means a demand for human muscle… At the moment the brain-worker is…
Spectator’s Notes
Plus: the paedophile hunt is beyond satire; Germany redeemed; and a nightmare about the Pope
The green ink brigade is now running the show
The movement which is about to foist Corbyn on the Labour party is the same one that bullies the rest of the country
Christianity is silent on my great moral dilemma
If, as I believe, the main difficulty that faces us in deciding moral duty is the difficulty of prioritising, our national religion is profoundly unhelpful
What we learned from the much-anticipated Clinton emails
Unreleased documents are never, ever as exciting as you think they will be
Cheer up: we’re robust enough to withstand a shock from China
Plus: the unstoppable Howard Davies; sad news from Tokyo; stories from the Spectator cruise
The Corbyn enigma
His imminent victory could lock in 20 years of Conservative rule – of a kind the Tory right might not enjoy
