Thursday 8 January 2009

 

The latest culture as recommended by our staff

Peter Hoskin

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CoffeeHouse

This from Iain Martin over at Three Line Whip: "...the strong rumour is that one minister with good police contacts...

An escalation

A dangerous escalation of the Middle Eastern conflict this morning, as rockets are fired into northern Israel from Lebanon.  As...

The idiocy of the ECB

The idiocy of the ECB

So, it has all ended in tears. Kevin Pietersen’s resignation came even sooner than his worst enemies would have predicted...

Ed Balls debuts the apprenticeships Brownie

Ed Balls never gets enough credit for the Brownies that he cooks up. One was served today, when he spent...

Labour, the do nothing until after the holidays party

Labour, the do nothing until after the holidays party

The vacation habits of the shadow cabinet are under discussion today principally because everyone thinks that one holidaying member will...

Arts

Shakespeare it ain’t

Shakespeare it ain’t

The Cordelia Dream
Wilton’s Music Hall

Sunset Boulevard
Comedy

Winter wonders

Winter wonders

Bruegel to Rubens: Masters of Flemish Painting
The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, until 26 April

Books

Getting the detail right

Evelyn Waugh told Nancy Mitford he was ‘surprised to find’ that Proust ‘was a mental defective. He has absolutely no sense of time.’

Was the Abdication necessary?

Was the Abdication necessary?

The Eagle & the Crown, by Frank Prochaska

Style & Travel

Not just for Christmas

Not just for Christmas

Matthew Dennison extols the virtues of a rare but distinguished breed

Latin lover

Latin lover

Colombia has Clemency Burton-Hill weak at the knees


The Spectator Parliamentarian Awards
Spectator Book Club
In this week's issue

The natural order of things

Matt Ridley says that Darwinian selection explains the appearance of seemingly ‘designed’ complexity throughout the world — not just in biology but in the economy, technology and the arts

Matt Ridley

Onward Christian Zionists

Rod Liddle on the crazed, quasi-fascist evangelicals in Britain and America who believe war in Gaza heralds the Second Coming of Christ

Rod Liddle

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