Discover and connect with journalists and influencers around the world, save time on email research, monitor the news, and more.
Recent: |
|
Past: |
|
Hilary Benn's speech (The dismantling of Hilary Benn's empty war rhetoric, December 6, 2015) It isn’t often that a rousing speech on socialist internationalism is rewarded with a full transcript in the Spectator. In fact, it never happens. The Tory Party’s newsletter is funny like that. → Read More
The first sentence of Serhii Plokhy’s introduction ought to earn him a point or two in this part of the world. It should also give a thoughtful… → Read More
If modern lives were measured in unprecedented weather events, we would all be 200 years old. Defences against floods that were supposed to… → Read More
IT isn’t often that a rousing speech on socialist internationalism is rewarded with a full transcript in the Spectator. In fact, it never… → Read More
Glasgow City Council has a keen sense, it seems, of what is or might be controversial. When the rest of us imagine that a handful of words to… → Read More
War, then. Another war. Still another war begun because the last guaranteed-conclusive war produced consequences that made one more shot in the… → Read More
IN dark times, begin by giving the Prime Minister a bit of credit. Unlike a certain predecessor, David Cameron has accepted that there needs to… → Read More
If the bookies are right, Jeremy Corbyn is the political equivalent of a nice slice of wholemeal, browning fast. He’s toast. Smart money,… → Read More
War is the great distraction. Right or wrong, foolish or wise, it suspends all the usual political and economic rules. Suddenly a chancellor who… → Read More
Vladimir Putin is probably right. You won’t often find those words in a sentence, but with 224 passengers of an A321 flight dead in Sinai, the… → Read More
There’s a chance that universities, like most things, have changed a bit since I was bluffing my way around Edinburgh’s George Square. It’s… → Read More
When France fell in six short weeks in the summer of 1940, just 10 per cent of its land mass was under Nazi control. French soldiers and their… → Read More
With the battle lines drawn, an old warhorse of a quotation can probably be trotted out. To paraphrase the apocryphal words of the Duke of… → Read More
IT could be a pub quiz question. What do Armenia and Argentina have in common? The Czech Republic and Chile? Paraguay and Poland? The answer… → Read More
On Thursday, the British Medical Association began to send out strike ballots to England’s 45,000 junior doctors. If you believe one online… → Read More
When Nicola Sturgeon delivered her inaugural speech as leader of the Scottish National Party a year ago, she made a promise. She said:… → Read More
The word omnishambles, you might remember, was chosen by the Oxford English Dictionary as its Word of the Year in 2012. It is defined online as… → Read More
Strangely, I don’t hear many of the usual defenders of the Union exulting over English votes for English laws. People who generally have plenty… → Read More
Somewhere in darkest Cheltenham, confusion must surely reign. You might have thought the people in the GCHQ “Doughnut” would be used to… → Read More
Anyone can make a mistake. Even politicians have a right to change their minds. It helps, though, if you reserve your errors for trivial matters.… → Read More