Our flying machines
From ‘News of the week’, The Spectator, 2 June 1917: There has been a lull on the Western front. It…
May’s mistakes
On the eve of the US presidential election, experts at Princeton university decided that Donald Trump had a 1 per…
Letters
Ignoring the hadith Sir: Douglas Murray and Jenny McCartney (‘The known wolf’ and ‘A war on joy’, 27 May) are…
Portrait of the week
Home The Conservatives grew restive when polls, for what they were worth, indicated a closing gap between their support and…
Tackling terror
Until last week, it was thought that the jihadi threat was subsiding and the security services were increasingly able to…
Portrait of the week
Home Twenty-two people were killed and 59 wounded by a man who blew himself up, with a bomb containing metal…
Letters
NHS in a mess Sir: Max Pemberton is quite right to say that the NHS is close to collapse, but…