The leap
This week the Prime Minister devoted a speech to what he regarded as six lies being told by his opponents…
Barometer
Boxing brains Muhammad Ali died aged 74, after more than 30 years with Parkinson’s Disease. How many boxers suffer brain…
The Kitchener effect
From ‘Lord Kitchener’, The Spectator, 9 June 1916: The central fact in Kitchener’s administration of the War Office is that…
Letters
War and Brexit Sir: Over the past few weeks every underemployed academic, hack or backbencher has come forward offering opinions…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, caused mild surprise by cancelling a cabinet meeting and hastily convening a press conference…
France is now the sick man of Europe
It is a long time since the term ‘sick man of Europe’ could be applied to Britain. France is now…
Migrants rescued from Channel, PM shares platform with Sadiq Khan
Home Two British men were charged with immigration offences after the rescue by night of 18 Albanian migrants, two of…
The biggest threats to gorillas (Cincinnati Zoo not included)
Gorilla warfare Harambe, a 17-year-old gorilla, was shot at Cincinnati Zoo after he started dragging away a boy aged four…
1916: Sorry, President Wilson, but this is not a gentlemanly war
From ‘President Wilson and the Lessons of History’, 2 June 1916: Emphatically it is not a war of what we…
Continental drift
It is a long time since the term ‘sick man of Europe’ could be applied to Britain. France is now…
Barometer
Gorilla warfare Harambe, a 17-year-old gorilla, was shot at Cincinnati Zoo after he started dragging away a boy aged four…
Against armistice
From ‘President Wilson and the Lessons of History’, 2 June 1916: Emphatically it is not a war of what we…
Letters
Cameron’s bluster Sir: Peter Oborne is surely right that lying and cheating are now commonplace in the heart of government…
Portrait of the week
Home Two British men were charged with immigration offences after the rescue by night of 18 Albanian migrants, two of…
