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The campaign in Glasgow East

Drive around Glasgow East and it seems the SNP is making most of the headway. Its simple yellow fluorescent logo...

Palin Polling

The new ABC poll, conducted yesterday so after Palin’s speech, is a mixed bag for the McCain campaign. On the...

The week that was

Here are some of the posts made over the past week on Spectator.co.uk: Fraser Nelson reports for Americano from the...

An Olympic let-down?

A couple of days ago, I wrote that - given the massive costs attached to the 2012 Games - taxpayers will...

Poverty of aspiration; not poverty of talent

One of the major educational challenges facing us today is ensuring talented pupils receive the same opportunity to excel. Today’s...

Arts

Top drama at bargain prices

Lloyd Evans talks to the Donmar’s artistic director Michael Grandage about his Wyndham’s venture

Escapist froth

Lost in Austen (ITV1)

Books

Life and Letters

Breaking the rules

Brave new writing

Fifty years ago, Alan Sillitoe’s first novel, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, changed the history of English fiction. Richard Bradford explains how.

Style & Travel

Meet the real Donna

Charlotte Metcalf finds a friend on the Mamma Mia! island

The skinny on sportswear

James Sherwood seeks suitable jogging attire

Labour’s punishment freaks are hounding honest citizens

Ross Clark says that far from keeping our streets safer or cleaner, the government’s new force of amateur policemen are ignoring the worst offenders and pursuing law-abiding innocents instead

Ross Clark