Greece
Portrait of the week
Home Andrew Burnham described calls from Yvette Cooper, a rival candidate for the Labour leadership, for him to withdraw from…
High life
These are the languid, sensuous days of summer, and I’ve had another birthday, which is the bad news. But it’s…
Portrait of the week
Home The Metropolitan Police encouraged people to celebrate VJ Day despite reports in the Mail on Sunday (picked up from…
High life
The wind is maddening and constant, and gets stronger as the sun falls below the horizon. The streets are lined…
High life
Nestled under the Acropolis, snug and safe among the ancient ruins of a long-ago grandeur, Plaka is the only remaining…
Do Nikkei and the FT really share the same journalistic values?
It’s nearly 30 years since I worked in Japan, but I still have a few words of the language and…
Despair springs eternal
The left is always eager to be told that capitalism’s final crisis is upon us – and it is always disappointed
‘The smugglers don’t care’
On a Greek beach, watching migrants’ dinghies arrive from Turkey
Portrait of the week
Home Parents would be able to have their children’s passports removed if they were suspected of planning to travel abroad…
Letters
Don’t write off Assad Sir: Ahmed Rashid refers to our ‘Arab allies’ supporting al-Qaeda (‘The plan to back al-Qaeda against…
Degrees in disaster
From Greece to Kenya, the worst economic ideas come from alumni of British universities
High life
I think back to my Greek childhood and longing for the once cosiest and most romantic of cities overwhelms me.…
Portrait of the week
Home The government postponed a Commons vote on relaxing the Hunting Act in England and Wales after the Scottish National…
A deal for the good of the world, but in Vienna rather than Brussels
As an occasional lecturer on the abstruse topic of the efficacy of sanctions in conflict resolution, I find myself much…
Greece Notebook
At the weekend, I tried — and failed — to get some money out of an empty cashpoint near Omonia…
Portrait of the week
Home In his Budget, George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, slowed the planned rate of bringing in £12 billion…
Tsipras vs hubris
The EU finds it difficult to understand what drives the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Quite simply, he is a…
The Spectator’s notes
Even if everything goes wronger still, the Greek No vote is a great victory for the left. Until now, the…
Forget the EU – we need the Hanseatic League
I think it is time to put into effect my plan for the re-shaping of the European Union. A somewhat…
Remember when Britain could build stuff?
Heathrow. The whole British story is there. Reading up around that debacle last week, I came across the eye-watering —…
Good and bad politics: the Budget against a backdrop of Greek chaos
George Osborne’s Budget was good politics: not so much in terms of tactical point-scoring, though there was plenty, but in…
Ali Baba and the 300 hostages
The kidnappers who prey on desperate migrants in Greece’s border badlands
High life
Wow, what a week. London may be bad for one’s health, but it sure makes it fun on the way…
Portrait of the week
Home At least 30 British people were among 38 shot dead at a beach resort at Sousse in Tunisia by…
Barometer
Bank job Should we buy shares in companies which print banknotes in expectation of one getting to print millions of…
