Dreams
Early August and not yet half past eight, but all along the dual carriageway more than half the cars have…
Goodes is a victim
Adam Goodes is a victim of the Aboriginal grievance industry. For 18 years he played Australian football to adoring crowds.…
Goodes is a victim
Adam Goodes is a victim of the Aboriginal grievance industry. For 18 years he played Australian football to adoring crowds.…
Travel humbug
Bob Hawke famously observed that if you can’t govern yourselves, you can’t govern the country. Allow us to update this…
The Libor trader’s long stretch is a big message to the banking world
Fourteen years is a long stretch. The punishment imposed on former UBS and Citigroup trader Tom Hayes for his role…
If Corbyn wins, he could split the Tories too
‘Why this sudden restlessness, this confusion?’ asked C.P. Cavafy in his poem ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’: Because night has fallen…
How Hillary can win it – for the Republicans
New York Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/howtofixtherefugeecrisis/media.mp3 Remember the fizz around Gordon Brown’s election campaign in 2010? The excitement he brought to the…
The Spectator’s Notes
As someone who has rarely written a sentence in praise of the late Sir Edward Heath, I hope I can…
Nuclear overreaction
When I was growing up in the 1970s, my three main fears were: being blown up by the IRA; being…
Diary
My Cambodian daughter and her husband have just got married again. Wedding One was a Buddhist affair in our drawing…
The Long view
On the green edge of Clifton Downs, high above the city, there is a sculpture that encapsulates the strange magic…
Who’d have thought that about Ted? Well…
In another blow for freedom and the protection of the vulnerable, Conservative MP Mark Spencer has suggested that anti-terror legislation…
Portrait of the week
Home A man died when 1,500 migrants tried to enter the Channel Tunnel terminal in Calais in one night. The…
Jeremy Corbyn’s world
The enthusiasm of the young is not an unmixed blessing, as the Greek philosopher knew
Out of service
From ‘The new standard’, The Spectator, 24 July 1915: If a change must be made at all, it is worthwhile to…
Letters
Plus: legislation to pursue the Isis brainwashers; Low Life’s violent episode; a case against the RAF; and milkmen
The agony of Labour’s old-fashioned modernisers
The ‘modernisers’ are curiously stuck in the 1990s – while the party membership has shifted far to the left
The Spectator’s Notes
Plus: the surprising pleasures of a cruise; revisiting Honfleur; the Pink ’Un; Jeremy Corbyn’s out-of-date beard
If Corbyn becomes PM, I’m blaming you lot
With only the slenderest tweaking of the national mood, it could conceivably happen
A twinge of fear, and a glimpse of a harsher world
More often than not, my most memorable travel experiences happened in Muslim countries. I can't see the same happening in a generation's time
Do Nikkei and the FT really share the same journalistic values?
Plus: Busting myths on Lloyds’s takeover of HBOS; AO World’s troubles; and the thrilling Yanis Varoufakis
