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The Beeb behaved like a Da Vinci Code villain
Jack Valero23rd April, 2008
Jack Valero, a director of Opus Dei, says that even Dan Brown would be hard-pushed to invent the strange and circuitous business of complaining to the BBC
Why I’m standing to be a local councillor
Kelvin MacKenzie23rd April, 2008
Kelvin MacKenzie says that his fury over an extortionate hike in parking prices drove him to stand for election to Elmbridge Borough Council
The truth is that the house price crash is, overall, good news
Rod Liddle23rd April, 2008
Rod Liddle says that our pursuit of property as investment has been the most repulsive and soul-destroying aspect of contemporary British culture
Obama needs to knock Hillary out — and quick
James Forsyth23rd April, 2008
Hillary Clinton’s big win in the Pennsylvania primary has drawn attention to four main weaknesses in Barack Obama’s appeal, says James Forsyth
Here in Transylvania, it feels okay to be proudly English
Rod Liddle16th April, 2008
As nationalities proliferate, the English want their turn, says Rod Liddle — who considers himself British first. St George’s Day and ‘Englishness’ have been partially decontaminated, but we are no closer to a definition of what ‘England’ is — and quite right too
Hands off Jerusalem, my family heirloom
George Bridges16th April, 2008
George Bridges on the part played by his great-grandfather, Robert Bridges, in the composition of Parry’s music to Blake’s lyric: too precious, he says, to be hijacked by separatists
‘It’s the most English thing you could imagine!’
Robert Gore-Langton16th April, 2008
Shakespeare’s birthday celebrations in Stratford-upon-Avon may be a small-town affair, but it is one of the very few non-London dates that involves the diplomatic corps.
We need the English music that the Arts Council hates
Roger Scruton16th April, 2008
Roger Scruton hails the glorious achievements of the English composers, and their role in idealising the gentleness of the English arcadia — so loathed by our liberal elite
So what is England?
16th April, 2008
To celebrate St George’s Day and Shakespeare’s birthday, The Spectator asked some leading public figures for their answers to this vexing question. Here are their sometimes uplifting, sometimes nostalgic replies
The French Left has much to learn from the English
Bernard-Henri Lévy16th April, 2008
Blairism may have had its day on this side of the Channel, but Bernard-Henri Lévy says that the English Third Way should be a model to his Gallic comrades
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Reporting from Tibet's cocoon
Isaac Beech13th April, 2008
Isaac Beech on how freedom for Tibetans must come with freedom for journalists
Mad Men are taking over the world. And that’s no bad thing
Rory Sutherland9th April, 2008
Inspired by the new American hit TV show, Rory Sutherland — The Spectator’s own ‘Wiki Man’ — says that the capture of the Brown government and almost everything else by advertisers and marketers could be a great leap forward. Persuasion is better than legislation
In Zimbabwe, hope has turned to silent terror
Peter Oborne9th April, 2008
Peter Oborne says that the post-electoral limbo leaves Mugabe with a series of unpalatable options, the armed forces in disarray and Zimbabweans with a sense of grim foreboding
Shame on Scottish Tories for their Vichy sell-out
Gerald Warner9th April, 2008
Gerald Warner says that Scotland’s Conservatives, far from standing their ground on devolution, have jumped with relish on the gravy train of the Holyrood parliament
‘We have been wimpish about defending our ideas’
Matthew d'Ancona9th April, 2008
Salman Rushdie tells Matthew d’Ancona that the idea at the heart of his new novel set in 16th-century Florence and India is that universal values exist and require robust champions
From despot’s PR man to Surrey salesman
Christopher Michael9th April, 2008
Christopher Michael talks to Jean-Baptiste Kim, a former spokesman for Kim Jong-Il’s tyranny in Pyongyang, who grasped the truth about the regime
Welcome to subprime Britain. How scared should you be?
George Bridges2nd April, 2008
Mining data of unprecedented sophistication, George Bridges unveils a map of future economic pain: the areas where repossessions and negative equity are most likely to bite in the months ahead. The credit earthquake, he says, will be a huge factor in the next election
A chance for the Lords to justify their existence
Daniel Hannan2nd April, 2008
The EU’s Lisbon Treaty was handled scandalously in the Commons, says Daniel Hannan. Now the Upper House has the chance to play its ancestral role as the conscience of the nation
Politicians boasting about the women they’ve slept with is not candour: it’s spin
Rod Liddle2nd April, 2008
Rod Liddle says that Nick Clegg’s toe-curling remarks are part of a deceitful tendency in the political class to tell us things about themselves that we don’t want to know rather than speaking the truth about policy
Why hasn’t Britain got a sovereign wealth fund?
Martin Vander Weyer2nd April, 2008
Martin Vander Weyer says that we resent the growing power of countries which shrewdly invest the wealth from their natural resources. We had North Sea oil, and we blew the lot
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