EU
Why we need migrants
It’s not about economics. It’s about our snobbish, slobbish culture
Feminists for Brexit
Britain is trapped in a bad marriage with the EU. It’s time to leave
Desperate straits
The Turkey-EU deal will do nothing to fix the migrant crisis. Just ask the people-smugglers in Istanbul
Vote for freedom!
‘Out’ campaigners picture leaving the EU as a liberation. It wouldn’t be
The Amber express
Energy Secretary Amber Rudd on ending green rackets, supporting Scottish oil and staying in the EU
Turkey’s blackmail
Looked at from the narrow perspective of how to deal with the lethal business of human trafficking across the Aegean,…
Portrait of the week
Home The Bank of England arranged for banks to be able to borrow as much money as they needed around…
Governor Cameron and the Brussels empire
Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the EU Commission, made a typically brilliant intervention in the EU referendum debate by arguing that…
The Spectator’s notes
Surely there is a difference between Mark Carney’s intervention in the Scottish referendum last year and in the EU one…
Want to leave the EU? You must be an oik like me
If you need to know how properly posh you are there’s a very simple test: are you pro- or anti-Brexit?…
Americans for Brexit
President Obama thinks it’s in all our interests for you to remain part of the EU. This is why he’s wrong
High life
Athens I am walking around downtown Athens watching as thousands of migrants field pitches from smugglers offering alternative routes…
Portrait of the week
Home An official analysis by the Cabinet Office said that if Britain left the EU it would lead to a…
People power then and now
It does seem extraordinary that the increasingly puce-faced Mr Cameron offered us an ‘in-out’ referendum and is now telling us…
The Spectator’s notes
The government, or at least David Cameron’s bit of it, seems to think that trade is something that takes place…
Of course the old Tory hatreds are back. That’s referendums for you
Of course it’s vicious. It was always going to be. Sure, they’ve spent decades living peacefully side by side, but…
A conservative case for staying in
Europe has enjoyed an exceptional three decades of freedom and prosperity. Why risk that?
Linked in
What makes the World Service so different from the rest of the BBC? I asked Mary Hockaday, the controller of…
High life
The rich are under attack nowadays, never more so than in America, where The Donald continues to trump his critics,…
Long life
On Monday I went to the newsagent to buy the newspapers and picked up the first issue of a new…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, having continued talks through the night in Brussels, announced that he had achieved a ‘special status’ for…
Barometer
Vote no, vote often David Cameron scorned Boris Johnson’s idea that voting to leave the EU might result in further…
The Spectator’s notes
One of the oddest features of the cabinet majority for staying in the EU is that almost no one in…
The City says it’s for staying in but I wonder what the big beasts think
‘The City is in no doubt that staying in Europe is the only way ahead,’ declared Mark Boleat for the…
Out on the farm
How would British farming change without EU subsidies?
