The Week

Diary

16th January, 2008

Anne McElvoy reflects on Peter Hain's predicament and the joys of a long bath.

He’s incompetent. So sack him

16th January, 2008

The Spectator on why the Prime Minister should show Peter Hain the door

Diary

10th January, 2008

Years ago my divorce liberated me from many things, not least of which was a wife’s burden of organising the traditional family Christmas.

Cameron is making the intellectual running now — with a little help from the Blairites

9th January, 2008

Fraser Nelson reviews the week in politics

Ancient & modern

9th January, 2008

One moment laws against ‘religious hatred’, the next against smoking in cars, now mobile phones. What next?

Change you can believe in

9th January, 2008

The Spectator reflects on the parallels between British and American politics.

Letters

9th January, 2008

Spectator readers respond to recent articles

Mind your language

9th January, 2008

I was looking at bird-feeders reputed to resist the attentions of squirrels as a suitable present for my husband, who already often sits in his armchair nursing his whisky glass and staring out of the window, when I came across a sinister outrage on the English language.

Global warning

9th January, 2008

The medical profession used often to be twitted with the mortality of its own members: for if doctors knew so much, how came it that they died like everyone else?

Diary

9th January, 2008

Dianna Rigg on the joys of being out of work and why she is a fatist

The Spectator's Notes

9th January, 2008

Charles Moore's reflections on the week

Letters

2nd January, 2008

Hoggartian paradox

The result has been the Hoggartian paradox of programmes that managed to be both, in Simon’s words, ‘scaringly revealing’ and largely covering ‘old and well-travelled ground’.

Diary

2nd January, 2008

Diary of a Notting Hill Nobody

2nd January, 2008

How resolute is Tamzin?

Global warning

2nd January, 2008

A friend of mine, a very busy man who knew that I had retired and had little to do except meet deadlines, asked me recently to help him find a flat for rent in a distant part of the country.

1828 and All That

2nd January, 2008

Diary

12th December, 2007

Emily Maitlis on the Christmas Party circuit

Diary of a Notting Hill nobody

12th December, 2007

Tamzin's look-back at a tipsy-turvy year for Project Cameron

Ancient & Modern

2nd January, 2008

Leading article

12th December, 2007

The Spectator on what parents owe their children