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The expenses scandal has delighted the Tories — it keeps Brown in power
7 November 2009James Forsyth
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 2009James Forsyth
How David Cameron plans to tame the unions
24 October 2009James Forsyth
How the Tories plan to avoid a cultural beating
17 October 2009James Forsyth
What George Osborne didn’t tell you about the Tories’ radical economic agenda
10 October 2009James Forsyth
Clegg needs to find a way out of No Man's Land
Alasdair Murray
A poisoned legacy from which Labour has never quite recovered
7 November 2009Peter Oborne
Judging 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 2009Gerald Kaufman
It wouldn’t matter if all the bees died
31 October 2009Rod Liddle
Did Al Farabi really invent sociology?
31 October 2009James Hannam
The Spectator Parliamentarian of the Year Awards 2009
31 October 200931 October 2009
Anthony Daniels
31 October 2009
Lucy Vickery
Lucy Vickery
In 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…
31 October 2009
Peter Jones
Peter Jones
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,…
31 October 2009
Toby Young 31 October 2009
Roger Alton 31 October 2009
Hugo Rifkind 31 October 2009
James Delingpole 24 October 2009
Matthew Parris
Toby Young 31 October 2009
Roger Alton 31 October 2009
Hugo Rifkind 31 October 2009
James Delingpole 24 October 2009
Matthew Parris
Keep on digging: Boris’s route to recovery
31 October 2009Elliot Wilson
No 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…
31 October 2009
Martin Vander Weyer
Neil Collins
Ruth Lea 24 October 2009
David Coates
Richard Northedge
Martin Vander Weyer
For whom the tolls mean tax-free profits
24 October 2009Neil Collins
There’s worse to come as we all get older
24 October 2009Ruth Lea 24 October 2009
David Coates
Twenty-five years on, the game begins again
17 October 2009Richard Northedge
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