floods
Venice needs Venexit
Some of Venice’s problems are well known: the challenge of conserving her famous buildings, the dangers of poorly managed mass…
Our flood defences aren’t fit for the climate we have now
This week’s political fuss over whether the floods in Yorkshire constitute a ‘national emergency’ misses the point. It is too…
Portrait of the week: Farage’s climbdown, Yorkshire’s floods and Australia’s fires
Home Nigel Farage, the leader of the Brexit party, climbed down from his resolution to field 600 candidates in the…
Naples drowns in deluge and corruption
There are nods to dark masters in Malacqua — undercurrents of Kafka, a drumbeat of Beckett — but Nicola Pugliese’s…
Lessons from Houston
The numbers are awesome. In a matter of hours, Hurricane Harvey dumped nine trillion gallons of rainfall on Houston and…
The Spectator’s Notes
No amount of reports in the press that Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet-making is farcical and his party is divided should…
Barometer
The outsiders Did the seven members of Harold Wilson’s cabinet who campaigned to leave the Common Market in the 1975…
Soggy thinking
As the chairman of the Committee on Climate Change, Lord Deben, observed this week, there is a bizarre dislocation between…
Between the floods
As the climate changes, will we? The story of the little ice age suggests that adaptation will take years of suffering
Diary
My surgery has been calling in all those over 75 for a special session with their doctor — a sort…
Hadrian on the Somerset floods
Since the Somerset Levels are a flood plain, nature will flood it. Romans had no problems with that. Much of…
Letters
Caution over wind Sir: While the broadcast media have assailed their audiences with simplistic yet blanket coverage of the floods…
Cameron’s watershed moment
It is all hands to the pump in Downing Street. The entire No. 10 operation from the Prime Minister down…
‘Instant wildlife – just add water’
The ideology that created an unnatural disaster
Portrait of the week
Home George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, made it clear in a speech that he intended to cut £25 billion…
