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How Britain still gets boardrooms wrong

12 September 2015 9:00 am

Sir Adrian Cadbury, who has died aged 86, is remembered as the author in 1992 of a first stab at…

All those boardroom codes still can’t catch rogues and incompetents

10 September 2015 1:00 pm

Sir Adrian Cadbury, who has died aged 86, is remembered as the author in 1992 of a first stab at…

The NHS was great for Girl, but I still don’t like it

10 September 2015 1:00 pm

When Girl came off the horse it didn’t look like a bad fall. More like an involuntary and rather hurried…

How Gordon Brown’s hit man became Labour’s peacemaker

10 September 2015 1:00 pm

Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/merkelstragicmistake/media.mp3 Last week I was talking to a member of the shadow cabinet about Jeremy Corbyn’s impending victory as…

The Spectator’s notes

10 September 2015 1:00 pm

Presumably Britain has some sort of policy on immigration, asylum and refugees, but instead of struggling to understand it, you…

Soon, having sex and having children will be utterly disconnected

10 September 2015 1:00 pm

What is tougher for a kid? To be born black in a predominantly white neighbourhood, or to be born to…

Charles Moore’s Notes: the Tories’ adoption of the Living Wage is entirely bogus

5 September 2015 9:00 am

Was there ever a more unilluminating political idea — for voters rather than practitioners — than triangulation? For those readers so…

Pig-ignorant click activists are in charge now. Jeremy Corbyn’s success proves it

5 September 2015 9:00 am

Daily they drop into my email account — alongside the more obviously useful stuff about how I might elongate my penis…

Millions of us honestly don’t know what our duty is to migrants – and Christianity doesn’t help

5 September 2015 9:00 am

Proximity shouldn’t make a difference — should it? We were on a beach on the European side of the Mediterranean,…

The real lesson of the Hillary Clinton emails: most secrets are boring

5 September 2015 9:00 am

‘Gefilte fish,’ emailed Hillary Clinton to a pair of aides in March 2010, ‘where are we on this?’ That was…

The good economic news that we forgot in the China panic

5 September 2015 9:00 am

Home from the hot Aegean, huddled by the fire as rain ruins the bank holiday weekend, I’m thinking: what gloom…

Cheer up: we’re robust enough to withstand a shock from China

3 September 2015 1:00 pm

Home from the hot Aegean, huddled by the fire as rain ruins the bank holiday weekend, I’m thinking: what gloom…

What we learned from the much-anticipated Clinton emails

3 September 2015 1:00 pm

‘Gefilte fish,’ emailed Hillary Clinton to a pair of aides in March 2010, ‘where are we on this?’ That was…

Christianity is silent on my great moral dilemma

3 September 2015 1:00 pm

Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/jeremycorbynsbritain/media.mp3 Proximity shouldn’t make a difference — should it? We were on a beach on the European side of…

Spectator’s Notes

3 September 2015 1:00 pm

Was there ever a more unilluminating political idea — for voters rather than practitioners — than triangulation? For those readers so…

The green ink brigade is now running the show

3 September 2015 1:00 pm

Daily they drop into my email account — alongside the more obviously useful stuff about how I might elongate my penis…

Think Cameron’s small majority will hold him back? Not with his new army of loyalists

29 August 2015 9:00 am

Time was when the Conservatives believed that a small majority — which puts a government at the mercy of backbench…

Warning! Can seriously damage your health

The contagious madness of the new PC

29 August 2015 9:00 am

Obsessive searching for hurt and offence will create it where once it never existed

I’m utterly sickened by this story of a man trying to talk to a woman on a train

29 August 2015 9:00 am

What can we as a society do about the relentless harassment of women by terrifying men? Menacing men, threatening men,…

Oh no: On the Road’s a masterpiece. So what else have I missed?

29 August 2015 9:00 am

This week’s column is dedicated to all those of you who have never read Catcher in the Rye and who,…

Sorry, but I can’t join in the China panic (especially not while I’m on a cruise)

29 August 2015 9:00 am

 MS Queen Victoria, 38°N 19°E I’ll do my best, but I’ve got to be honest: being surrounded by shining Ionian…

Sorry, but I can’t join in the China panic

27 August 2015 1:00 pm

 MS Queen Victoria, 38°N 19°E I’ll do my best, but I’ve got to be honest: being surrounded by shining Ionian…

If On the Road’s great, what else have I missed?

27 August 2015 1:00 pm

This week’s column is dedicated to all those of you who have never read Catcher in the Rye and who,…

Warning! Can seriously damage your health

The contagious madness of the new PC

27 August 2015 1:00 pm

It’s becoming pretty clear, as the year rolls on, that some of our brightest youngsters have gone round the bend.…

Cameron’s new army of Tory loyalists

27 August 2015 1:00 pm

Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/thereturnofassisteddying/media.mp3 Time was when the Conservatives believed that a small majority — which puts a government at the mercy…