Lifting the veil
Finally I realise why women are so pissed off. It all goes back to the first codified laws — circa…
Australian notes
I had never met the Minister for Finance in NSW, Dominic Perrottet, and knew little about him when I went…
The green ink brigade is now running the show
Daily they drop into my email account — alongside the more obviously useful stuff about how I might elongate my penis…
Gamblin’ man
The Chancellor may yet be lucky. But the look on his face this week suggests he fears otherwise
Portrait of the week
Home Harriet Harman, the acting leader of the Labour party, said that 3,000 people had had any votes they cast…
Just how republican is Jeremy Corbyn?
Hating kings and queens is not enough. Is he ready to share power?
Discovering Europe
From ‘A Converted Peace-Man’, The Spectator, 28 August 1915: We have brought the present war upon ourselves in a great measure…
Letters
Plus: a former ambassador on valedictory blogging; and another freelance alternative to the RAF
Cameron’s new army of Tory loyalists
New Tory MPs are mostly fully paid-up members of the Prime Minister’s fan club
The contagious madness of the new PC
Obsessive searching for hurt and offence will create it where once it never existed
I’m utterly sickened by this story of a man trying to talk to a woman on a train
In fact I am so upset I may have to break off writing to vomit again
If On the Road’s great, what else have I missed?
I had good reasons for ignoring it. And Catcher in the Rye, too. But I’m glad Boy forced me to change my mind
Sorry, but I can’t join in the China panic
Plus: the meaning of the ‘Corbynomics’ endorsement; and an opportunity coming into view
Death watch
Euthanasia’s development in Holland and Belgium is a cautionary tale for those considering the idea here
The Matador
The matador scowled at the back of the bar, and sipped his beer. He wanted to stab the people who…
Last orders
It’s one pub among thousands – but one at the centre of a community, and of stories told from generation to generation
The breast test
Clare Byam-Cook’s tolerant advice inspires rage on Mumsnet – but it could save new mothers from misery and shame
War still has the best tunes
Thought ‘humanitarian intervention’ was dead and buried? No such luck. It’s taking pride of place in the American election
Liberating Marianne
In Fighters in the Shadows, Robert Gildea dares to suggest that the struggle in France against the German Occupation — so central to French identity — was too disparate even to be called ‘the French Resistance’
Spirits of the Blitz
Concluding her latest trilogy, Noonday sees the few remaining Slade painters bearing up — and bearing stretchers — through the Blitz
