The expenses scandal has delighted the Tories — it keeps Brown in power
7 November 2009
To step into the House of Commons nowadays is like gatecrashing a wake. In happier days, its corridors were full of MPs quietly plotting. Now, the scene is members being…
The Tories’ push to scupper President Blair is the highest form of flattery
31 October 2009How David Cameron plans to tame the unions
24 October 2009How the Tories plan to avoid a cultural beating
17 October 2009What George Osborne didn’t tell you about the Tories’ radical economic agenda
10 October 2009Clegg needs to find a way out of No Man's Land
A poisoned legacy from which Labour has never quite recovered
7 November 2009Judging only by its electoral performance, the Communist Party of Great Britain was a near-total failure in the 20th century. It only secured a tiny number of MPs at Westminster,…
How my party was betrayed by KGB boot-lickers
7 November 2009It wouldn’t matter if all the bees died
31 October 2009Did Al Farabi really invent sociology?
31 October 2009The Spectator Parliamentarian of the Year Awards 2009
31 October 2009In Competition No. 2619 you were invited to submit a short fable culminating in a mangled aphorism. The fabulous theme of this comp is a salute to Jaspistos, celebrated translator…
Should the Tories follow Frank Field’s lead and, in the light of their ‘broken society’ campaign, make it their policy to produce ‘the good citizen’?
In Plato’s dialogue Protagoras,…
Keep on digging: Boris’s route to recovery
31 October 2009No major city anywhere has achieved as much as London has with such poor public transport at its disposal. Trams that break down; bendy buses that burst into flames; an…
For whom the tolls mean tax-free profits
24 October 2009There’s worse to come as we all get older
24 October 2009Twenty-five years on, the game begins again
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