Russell Brand is the future, like it or not
I write at a difficult time. The balls are in the air, but we know not where they will land.…
The British public is about to make a big mistake
On the weekend of 25 April 2015 I started to believe that the party I supported might not win an…
Aussie rules
Some years ago I paid a visit to the site of the Gallipoli landings because I was mildly obsessed with…
2209: Safe-blowers
The unclued lights (two of two words) are to be linked with one of the clued lights in translation. All…
Warning: this column may soon be illegal
Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/theelectionwhereeverybodyloses/media.mp3 A couple of weeks back I wrote an article headed: ‘Call me insane, but I’m voting Labour.’ Among…
Anzac Diary
I am writing this diary from the Opera, not the theatrical sort, we are on a cruise ship anchored for…
Useful idiots
Tony Burke and Tanya Plibersek are laying down the ‘welcome’ mat for Islamist terrorists to take over the West Bank,…
Australian notes
It will get worse before it gets worse… This is how the head of French intelligence described the current state…
The other union
Labour’s position on an EU referendum is indefensible. Ed Miliband should be made to defend it
Portrait of the week
Home The prospect of a parliamentary alliance between Labour and the Scottish National Party injected an element of fear into…
Plutarch and Aristotle vs Lynton Crosby
The Tory campaign chief has two big ideas. The ancients wouldn’t have liked either
Florence weeps
From ‘Soldiers of Italy’, The Spectator, 24 April 1915: It is winter in Florence. The sun shines, but snow lies low on Monte…
Letters
Plus: Airline pilots answer back, David Starkey and his teeth, and a telling off from a tailor
Will jailing Katie Hopkins save the lives of migrants? I have my doubts
There are two ways to solve this migrant crisis. Either we must let them all in, or we must stop them from attempting the journey
It really must be a mid-life crisis. I’ve fallen in love with a pony
Riding a hunter is all very well. But Potato the polo pony makes me feel like Alexander the Great
Cheap shots and uncosted bribes are drowning out vision, wisdom and optimism
Plus: In praise of the well-upholstered director; and the wisdom of the Irish
‘I have worked my socks off’
Exclusive interview: David Cameron on what his government has achieved, and what it will take for him to get another one
The Plame game
Libby’s conviction looks ever shakier – and the system that produced it ever more worrying
Rhodes to nowhere
They complain that the university is too ‘Eurocentric’ – but they show no signs of wanting to make any actual changes
The other kingmaker
The Orangeman with the First in law from Cambridge has found himself suddenly popular with Commons colleagues
The roots of the matter
Britain buys £43 million worth of human hair a year. But it’s dismayingly hard to find out who it comes from
