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There's a revolution — in banking
The financial crisis is the catalyst for a belated revolution
Notes on … Christmas shopping in Bruges
Most Belgians of my acquaintance tend to be rather disparaging about Bruges. It’s a theme park, they say, a Flemish…
They used to catch crooks - now they trawl Twitter. Are our police turning into spies?
Crime is falling, but the police are as busy as ever – undermining our freedoms
Note to the opposition: Tony Abbott is not to blame for the bushfires
Australia One of the odd things about bushfires as we know them in Australia is the unlikely truces declared between…
Botswana is persecuting its Kalahari bushmen — and we had a role in it
Botswana’s shame – and ours
Zoë Wanamaker: We need more giants like Obama
Zoë Wanamaker on politics, acting, and drinking vodka
Arthur Laffer: cuts succeeded where stimulus failed
High government spending increases unemployment and slows economic recovery
There's a global morality gap — and it's getting wider
The world can now be divided between post- and pre-enlightened countries
The Morrissey myth
The sad end of the Morrissey myth
Notes on … Skiing in Austria
I have spent a week of every winter of my life with my family in Zürs, a small village in…
Why climate change is good for the world
The current scientific consensus is that climate change is doing more good than harm
Skymap Says We’re Nowhere Near Home
In Economy’s cramped haul it’s all I ever watch. Our course is laid on screen before me, a dotted line…
I was Ralph Miliband's research assistant, and this is what he was like
Memories of being Ralph Miliband’s research assistant
The latest anti-Semitic cry: ban circumcision
The thinking of those who seek to ban circumcision is dreary, backwards – and often anti-Semitic
Don't hug me! (Even though sometimes it's rather nice)
Have we gained from abandoning the handshake?
Tommy Robinson: Double standards, not fear of diversity, provoked the EDL
An encounter with Tommy Robinson, former leader of the English Defence League
Movement
Ten minutes — or less — before we step down at one of the ‘London Terminals’, ploughed land restarts and…
Alice Munro won't let her Nobel go to her head — that's why she's a true Canadian writer
Alice Munro may be the most Canadian writer in the world. That’s why Canadians can’t quite believe her achievement
Notes on … Skiing in Switzerland
There’s a myth in the Spectator office, which I’ve never discouraged, that I’m Yorkshire’s answer to Franz Klammer — a…
Movement
Ten minutes — or less — before we step down at one of the ‘London Terminals’, ploughed land restarts and…
Skymap Says We’re Nowhere Near Home
In Economy’s cramped haul it’s all I ever watch. Our course is laid on screen before me, a dotted line…
Skymap Says We’re Nowhere Near Home
In Economy’s cramped haul it’s all I ever watch. Our course is laid on screen before me, a dotted line…
Obesity is not a disease
Britain must urgently confront its obesity – and lifestyle – problem
Spies spy – get over it
Our intelligence agencies have an important job to do
Less sex please, we're British
From Bridget Jones to prime-time telly, porn culture is now mainstream
