Portrait of the week
Home A Bill to enable a referendum on whether voters wanted Britain to ‘remain’ in the European Union figured in…
Isis is our worst possible enemy
In recent months, as the country went through a general election, our focus has been on our own domestic debates.…
Portrait of the week
Home The annual rate of inflation turned negative in April, for the first time since 1960, with deflation of 0.1…
Cakes, the epicentre of gay rights
Cake discrimination A bakery in Northern Ireland was found guilty of discriminating against a gay couple for whom it refused…
National Government, 22 May 1915
From ‘A National Government’, Spectator, 22 May 1915: When we wrote last week there seemed little possibility that our hopes…
Spectator letters: What decommissioned officers did after the war
Soldiering on Sir: Max Hastings’s article about demobbed army officers trying for a job after the war struck a chord…
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Isis rising
Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/michaelgovesfightforjustice/media.mp3 In recent months, as the country went through a general election, our focus has been on our own…
Barometer
Cake discrimination A bakery in Northern Ireland was found guilty of discriminating against a gay couple for whom it refused…
National government
From ‘A National Government’, Spectator, 22 May 1915: When we wrote last week there seemed little possibility that our hopes…
Portrait of the week
Home The annual rate of inflation turned negative in April, for the first time since 1960, with deflation of 0.1…
'One nation' politics works. Just ask Nicola Sturgeon
As David Cameron lined up beside Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband at the Cenotaph on the day after the general…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, soon got used to the surprise of the Conservatives being returned in the general…
How Spain got blamed for the Spanish flu — and where to find Ebola on a map
Plagued by stigma The World Health Organisation told doctors to stop naming diseases after people, places and animals so as…
