The Week

To defend the NHS, stop health tourism

15 August 2015 9:00 am

Speaking after the Stafford hospital scandal in 2010, the then newly appointed Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, grandly announced plans for…

Portrait of the week

15 August 2015 9:00 am

Home The Metropolitan Police encouraged people to celebrate VJ Day despite reports in the Mail on Sunday (picked up from…

A.N. Wilson’s diary: VJ Day and the Virginia Woolf Burger Bar

15 August 2015 9:00 am

Should we have celebrated VJ Day? Hearing the hieratic tones of the Emperor Hirohito on Radio 4 the other day,…

Illegal workers do sometimes get caught (including at the Home Office)

15 August 2015 9:00 am

Caught working The government announced a crackdown on illegal workers. How many illegal workers are caught in Britain? — From…

Tips for Boris from imperial Rome

15 August 2015 9:00 am

While the Labour party rakes over its past in an effort to find a policy for its future, the commentators…

Boy soldiers

15 August 2015 9:00 am

From ‘What will they do with it?’, The Spectator, 14 August 1915: It is true that in a good many cases…

Letters

15 August 2015 9:00 am

End of Entitlements Sir: Having read David Flint’s article on parliamentary “entitlements” (Bronny bad, Adam goodes, Spectator Aust, 8 Aug.)…

Stop health tourism

13 August 2015 1:00 pm

Speaking after the Stafford hospital scandal in 2010, the then newly appointed Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, grandly announced plans for…

Boris’s waiting game

13 August 2015 1:00 pm

While the Labour party rakes over its past in an effort to find a policy for its future, the commentators…

Barometer

13 August 2015 1:00 pm

Caught working The government announced a crackdown on illegal workers. How many illegal workers are caught in Britain? — From…

Diary

13 August 2015 1:00 pm

Should we have celebrated VJ Day? Hearing the hieratic tones of the Emperor Hirohito on Radio 4 the other day,…

Boy soldiers

13 August 2015 1:00 pm

From ‘What will they do with it?’, The Spectator, 14 August 1915: It is true that in a good many cases…

Portrait of the week

13 August 2015 1:00 pm

Home The Metropolitan Police encouraged people to celebrate VJ Day despite reports in the Mail on Sunday (picked up from…

Edward Heath conducting the annual carol concert at the Grand Ballroom, Broadstairs, Kent in 1963. (Photo: Erich Auerbach/Hulton Archive/Getty)

Edward Heath and a very modern witch-hunt

8 August 2015 9:00 am

There was a grim inevitability that the name Edward Heath would one day be trawled up in connection with allegations…

Portrait of the week

8 August 2015 9:00 am

Home Tom Hayes, aged 35, a former City trader who rigged the Libor rates daily for nearly four years while…

Prue Leith’s diary: When did weddings stop being for parents?

8 August 2015 9:00 am

My Cambodian daughter and her husband have just got married again. Wedding One was a Buddhist affair in our drawing…

Just how tough a sentence was 14 years for Libor-rigging?

8 August 2015 9:00 am

Rogue traders Former UBS trader Tom Hayes was jailed for 14 years for rigging the Libor market. How long could…

Does Labour need a new name? Let’s ask Plato

8 August 2015 9:00 am

In order to make a sensible choice of new leader, the Labour party is trying to work out what its…

British soldiers having wounds treated in an underground dressing station by the Menin Road in France. (Photo by Frank Hurley/Three Lions/Getty Images)

One year on

8 August 2015 9:00 am

From ‘The End of the First Year’, The Spectator, 7 August 1915: Terrible as have been the sufferings caused by the…

Letters

8 August 2015 9:00 am

Archibald axing Sir: The postmodernist practice of accompanying works of art with a written statement was introduced in my opinion…

Edward Heath conducting the annual carol concert at the Grand Ballroom, Broadstairs, Kent in 1963. (Photo: Erich Auerbach/Hulton Archive/Getty)

Ted talk

6 August 2015 1:00 pm

There was a grim inevitability that the name Edward Heath would one day be trawled up in connection with allegations…

Party-naming with Plato

6 August 2015 1:00 pm

In order to make a sensible choice of new leader, the Labour party is trying to work out what its…

Barometer

6 August 2015 1:00 pm

Rogue traders Former UBS trader Tom Hayes was jailed for 14 years for rigging the Libor market. How long could…

British soldiers having wounds treated in an underground dressing station by the Menin Road in France. (Photo by Frank Hurley/Three Lions/Getty Images)

One year on

6 August 2015 1:00 pm

From ‘The End of the First Year’, The Spectator, 7 August 1915: Terrible as have been the sufferings caused by the…

Portrait of the week

6 August 2015 1:00 pm

Home Tom Hayes, aged 35, a former City trader who rigged the Libor rates daily for nearly four years while…