The Week
My hope for Ukraine
Kyiv When Winston Churchill visited bomb sites during the Blitz, the most common sentiment he heard was, ‘We…
Covid and the politics of panic
It is 15 months since Sweden’s Coronavirus Commission presented its final report. The 770-page document analysed how the country handled…
Letters: Jeremy Clarke was an example to us all
Goodbye, Jeremy Each week I opened The Spectator at Low Life in part to read that brilliant column and, more…
How Rishi Sunak should react to the Ely riot
‘There’s a lot of societal issues in Ely,’ said an anonymous caller to BBC Radio Wales the morning after the…
Letters: Britain’s net-zero ambition problem
Zero ambition Sir: How extraordinary that Ross Clark (‘Carbon fixation’, 20 May) can look at the cut-throat competition to capture…
Why Britain is falling behind in the global universities race
Our country still excels when it comes to higher education. Britain has seven of the world’s top 50 universities. In…
Turkey is at an existential crossroads
The wonderful Barbara Kingsolver wrote that hope is something you should not admire from a distance, but rather live inside…
Why the economic war against Russia has failed
There was much mirth in the West this week when Vladimir Putin’s Victory Day parade through Red Square included just…
Which countries have scored ‘nul points’ the most times?
Machine learning Who came up with the phrase ‘artificial intelligence’? – The term was coined by US computer scientist John…
