Thatcher
The way we live now
Once upon a time, a powerful unkillable beast menaced the nation. It had to be tamed. It could only be…
Big state, big mistake
The West must wake up and reform, or face decline
The Spectator’s Notes
Thirty years ago this Saturday, I became editor of this magazine. In the same month, the miners’ strike began, Anthony…
The Spectator’s Notes
In Dublin, where I am writing this column, people are watching the Scottish referendum campaign more closely than in London.…
The strange disappearance of Gordon Brown
It may come as a grave surprise to you that, when it was offered as a prize in a charity…
The Spectator’s Notes
There has naturally been plenty of unfavourable comment on how the Revd Paul Flowers, the ‘crystal Methodist’, was allowed by…
The Spectator’s Notes
The most extraordinary thing about the scandal of Unite at Grangemouth and in Falkirk is how long it took the…
The Spectator’s Notes
Manchester For those of us of a certain age, Ed Miliband’s speech last week was exhilaratingly nostalgic. His promise to…
Osborne’s indecent proposal
The Chancellor is offering leftish council tenants like me a larger bribe than ever to abandon our principles
