A selection of posts from the past seven days at spectator.co.uk
Reporting from the frontline in Birmingham, James Forsyth felt the Lib Dems shouldn’t get complacent, despite Nick Clegg being on fine form.
Fraser Nelson asked whether it was time to leave the EU.
David Blackburn described how the ghost of Maastricht is haunting today’s frontbench and wondered if a minister could make a good ‘account director’.
Jonathan Jones delved into the archives to bring us the article that ended Dominic Lawson’s career.
In his journalistic debut, city financier ‘Bounderby’ explained what we can learn from the American QE debate.
Clarissa Tan warned London not to get distracted from a Chinese invasion.
In the wake of Troy Davis’s execution, Alex Massie had strong words for supporters of capital punishment.
Martin Bright looked ahead to next week, outlining what Ed should say at the Labour conference (but won’t).
Citing the example of John le Carré, Nick Cohen asked why we’re so keen to gloss over novelists’ bad behaviour.
In a groundbreaking survey of Desert Island Discs book choices, Anna Baddeley uncovered some unlikely fans of Winston Churchill.
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