Sacred songs
I love a good hymn, so long as I’m not expected to sing it. Lusty declarations of faith sound ridiculous…
Sacred songs
I love a good hymn, so long as I’m not expected to sing it. Lusty declarations of faith sound ridiculous…
A&E
If this waiting is hellish, then the sick are limbo dancing; only those who are bent double, or on the…
Notes from Iran
Now that I’ve moved into the silly old duffer age bracket, a lot of invitations to film festivals, as a…
The martyrdom of Mark Steyn
When I first read, many months ago, that the notorious US climate scientist Michael Mann was suing the notorious right-wing…
Why was my homeless friend deported?
I’ve heard some excellent things about our Home Secretary, Theresa May. People who work in her department say she’s bright…
Australian Notes
A new class war is being mounted between those who feel for Schapelle Corby in her long ordeal in an…
Portrait of the week
Home The Somerset Levels continued to wallow in floods. The Environment Agency was widely blamed for not having dredged channels,…
Diary
Plus: The other referendum Scotland needs, a revolution in life jackets, suggested topics for David Cameron
Letters
Private pain Sir: A line in Alec Marsh’s article (‘Britain’s one-child policy’, 1 February) caught my eye; that school fees…
He’s reforming Labour. But can Ed change the country too?
A new voting system could be Miliband's legacy. It could also backfire disastrously
The Spectator’s Notes
Plus: The last newspaper diarist who knew his stuff, and Classic FM vs Radio 3
Won’t some other quango come to the rescue of poor Sally Morgan?
It links together Sally Morgan and Philip Seymour Hoffman
Warning: ‘no’ won’t be Scotland’s final answer
‘No’ won’t be Scotland’s final answer. Not unless the unionist parties get ready now
If Philip Seymour Hoffman wasn’t happy, what hope is there for the rest of us?
It seems the only sane celebrities are politicians
A man who creates 1,000 rewarding jobs out of a £1 bet deserves to win a fortune
Plus: How the EU saved bankers’ bonuses, and Michael O’Leary’s new manners
Zeteticism
Whatever savants say, the world is flat, not round; the ships that crowd the bay are for its limit bound.…
Bully laughs
If you want to understand mass hysteria, watch a second-rate stand-up pick on an accountant
