The Spectator

‘Millions of people from all over the world got on terribly well with each other again today…’

News

24 October 2015 9:00 am

‘Simon is becoming so violent during sex that I’m worried he may break the computer.’

Violent

24 October 2015 9:00 am

Cave

24 October 2015 9:00 am

‘I wish you wouldn’t hitch your skirts up like that, Fiona, it makes you look like a right slag.’

Newtoon

24 October 2015 9:00 am

‘I hope President Xi raises the issue of why we’ve been imprisoned here for so long.’

Panda

24 October 2015 9:00 am

‘What’s a pen?’

Etiquette

24 October 2015 9:00 am

Evidence

24 October 2015 9:00 am

‘Well... I can’t see any moles’

Tattoo

24 October 2015 9:00 am

‘Is he talking yet?’

Baby

24 October 2015 9:00 am

‘OK, it’s transgender, genderfluid, pansexual, genderqueer…’

Dinner party

24 October 2015 9:00 am

The human factor

22 October 2015 2:00 pm

Just over 30 years ago, Margaret Thatcher’s government decided to look at local government finance. A young aide, John Redwood,…

The clock towers bigger than Big Ben

22 October 2015 2:00 pm

Bigger Bens Big Ben will have a £29m refurbishment. Who has the biggest clock tower? Kremlin Clock: Installed on the…

Revenge and Edith Cavell

22 October 2015 2:00 pm

From ‘Reprisals’, The Spectator, 23 October 1915: The Germans lately executed Miss Cavell, a good and brave English hospital nurse, on a…

Portrait of the week

22 October 2015 2:00 pm

Home Xi Jinping, the ruler of China, came, with his wife Peng Liyuan, a folk singer, for a state visit…

‘... for today’s the day the teddy bears order pizza ’n large fries and stay in to play computer games.’

Rhymes

17 October 2015 9:00 am

Myth

17 October 2015 9:00 am

‘He was a smoking beagle. Can he have a last cigarette?’

Beagle

17 October 2015 9:00 am

‘Everyone’s viral for 15 minutes.’

Phones

17 October 2015 9:00 am

Wheel

17 October 2015 9:00 am

Roadshow

17 October 2015 9:00 am

Gun store

17 October 2015 9:00 am

Hipster

17 October 2015 9:00 am

Pollock

17 October 2015 9:00 am

‘We decided to focus on coffee.’

Waterstones

17 October 2015 9:00 am

Mother

17 October 2015 9:00 am