The Spectator

Portrait of the week

26 May 2016 1:00 pm

Home The government published a Treasury analysis warning that an exit from the EU would plunge Britain into a year-long…

Sorry, Chancellor, but the economic argument for the EU has not been won. Here’s why

21 May 2016 9:00 am

A Ryanair plane in a Stansted hangar was not the best backdrop for George Osborne’s claim that the economic argument…

Potrait of the Week: prisons to be ‘academies’and West to arm Libya

21 May 2016 9:00 am

Home In the Queen’s Speech, the government made provision for bills against extremism and in favour of driverless cars, drones,…

300 signatures can be wrong. How about 2 million?

21 May 2016 9:00 am

Name check 306 business people signed a letter to the Daily Telegraph saying that Britain would be better off outside…

The first world war comes home to a Kensington bus

21 May 2016 9:00 am

From ‘The softening of street manners’, The Spectator, 20 May 1916: Generally the public opinion of the ’bus entirely upholds…

John Outram’s Judge Institute, Cambridge, 1995

Books and arts opener

21 May 2016 9:00 am

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‘If you don’t behave, I’m sending you out of your room.’

Behave

21 May 2016 9:00 am

Books

21 May 2016 9:00 am

School

21 May 2016 9:00 am

BFG

21 May 2016 9:00 am

‘We’re going to have to recruit some right-wing luvvies.’

BBC

21 May 2016 9:00 am

Claude Monet could see things in ponds no other artist could see

Monet

21 May 2016 9:00 am

Radio

21 May 2016 9:00 am

‘Emily’s boyfriend is old-fashioned. He sends her pictures of his face.’

Pictures

21 May 2016 9:00 am

Carpet

21 May 2016 9:00 am

Bottle

21 May 2016 9:00 am

‘I think the dog wants to go out.’

Dog

21 May 2016 9:00 am

‘So, how did you manage to get a box at the anti-corruption conference?’

Box

21 May 2016 9:00 am

‘No one left and no one came — I blame the fare rises.’

Rail

21 May 2016 9:00 am

‘I do wish Robin wouldn’t text me when he’s drunk.’

Maid Marian

21 May 2016 9:00 am

Lies, damned lies and…

19 May 2016 1:00 pm

A Ryanair plane in a Stansted hangar was not the best backdrop for George Osborne’s claim that the economic argument…

Barometer

19 May 2016 1:00 pm

Name check 306 business people signed a letter to the Daily Telegraph saying that Britain would be better off outside…

Bus battles

19 May 2016 1:00 pm

From ‘The softening of street manners’, The Spectator, 20 May 1916: Generally the public opinion of the ’bus entirely upholds…

Letters

19 May 2016 1:00 pm

Republican party schisms Sir: Jacob Heilbrunn astutely analyses the predicament Donald Trump creates for America’s neoconservatives (‘Lumped with Trump’, 14…

Portrait of the week

19 May 2016 1:00 pm

Home In the Queen’s Speech, the government made provision for bills against extremism and in favour of driverless cars, drones,…