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Diary of a Notting Hill Nobody

Tamzin Lightwater

25th July, 2007

Good news at last. Dezzy and Paddy (sorry, Mr Swayne and Mr McLoughlin) have successfully identified the traitors who are calling for a vote of no confidence in Dave.
When you look down the list it’s clear that we are dealing with some extremely vulnerable people.

The Spectator’s notes

Charles Moore

25th July, 2007

David Cameron was in a tight spot because of the floods. He had arranged to address the Rwandan parliament, and this fitted with his wish to proclaim his welcome interest in development issues and his party’s new document on the subject.

One of us

19th July, 2007

As Spectator readers would have expected, this magazine was an early and enthusiastic backer of Boris Johnson as the next Mayor of London.

Diary of a Notting Hill nobody

Tamzin Lightwater

18th July, 2007

What a day!

Politics

Fraser Nelson

18th July, 2007

Beneath the dynamic surface, Brown is dismantling Blair’s public service reforms

Diary

Daphne Guinness

18th July, 2007

I miss Issie. I am waiting outside in the Orangerie in the Parc de St-Cloud, in Paris, where the Chanel show is about to begin.

Liddle Britain

Rod Liddle

18th July, 2007

Rod Liddle says that the opprobrium being heaped upon the the controversial doctor reflects the monomaniacal, fundamentalist face of science

Global warning

Theodore Dalrymple

18th July, 2007

Public affairs vex no man, said Doctor Johnson, and I know what he meant. He, however, did not live as we do in an age of information in which, without retiring entirely to bed, it is next to impossible to dodge the headlines altogether.

This is not a moral crusade

11th July, 2007

A fortnight ago we urged David Cameron to raise his game after Gordon Brown’s impressively bold start as Prime Minister.

Diary of a Notting Hill nobody

Tamzin Lightwater

11th July, 2007

Have drawn up shortlist of potential husbands. It is my Number One Priority to end my single status asap now that Being Married is official Conservative policy

Diary

Fergal Keane

11th July, 2007

It is very good to be back. So good that I can ignore the horror of the summer weather.

Politics

Anne McElvoy

11th July, 2007

Cameron is not sunk. But we need to know what his Britain would be like...

Mind your language

Dot Wordsworth

11th July, 2007

‘Darling,’ I asked, ‘In your day did they call them specialities or specialties?’

Letters

11th July, 2007

Sir: Charles Moore’s insinuation (Spectator’s Notes, 7 July) that following Alan Johnston’s release the BBC would now report Hamas more sympathetically is baseless.

Ancient & modern

Peter Jones

11th July, 2007

As globalisation of business and communications grows, to what extent will we see globalisation of values?

Hearts and minds

4th July, 2007

‘Among all criminals and murderers, the most dangerous type is the criminal physician.’

Diary of a Notting Hill Nobody

Tamzin Lightwater

4th July, 2007

Could do without the sort of nonsense I had to deal with this evening. Phone rang in middle of the big announcement and the operator said: ‘Call from Newcastle. Will you accept the charges?’