Michael Henderson suggests

Email registration

Free weekly email update

Great products and special offers for Spectator readers

Click here for great value events

Click here for exclusive articles, offers, tasting notes and discussion

Magazine Lead Articles

Absolutely sold on the nuclear option

Martin Vander Weyer talks to John Hutton, the cabinet minister who is determined to make it possible for private investors to build a new generation of British nuclear power stations

Features

The drug formula that didn’t work

Matthew Lynn says the mega-mergers that reshaped the global pharmaceutical industry over the past decade have delivered little of what they promised

Curing the world’s ills

Edie Lush says UK biotech and medical research is world-class, but that start-ups face a challenge to raise capital and must think global from the start

Investor

Gilt-edged returns for troubled times

Traditionalists choose gold, National Savings and gilts. But the best time to buy shares is often when other people are fleeing into cash, argues Alex Brummer

Why can’t a man be more like a woman?

As world markets plummet, studies show that women make better investors. Testosterone trading is so last season, says Janice Warman

A new job for the IMF: as global policeman

The International Monetary Fund was beginning to look like a has-been, says Elliot Wilson, but in the aftermath of the current crisis it may find an important new role

Elliot Wilson