1. Romeo and Juliet 2. Much Ado About Nothing 3. All’s Well That Ends Well 4. Hamlet 5. Twelfth Night 6. A Comedy of Errors 7. The Winter’s Tale 8. Coriolanus 9. Measure for Measure 10. As You Like It 11. A Midsummer Night’s Dream 12. Timon of Athens
Fairly odd 1. Lilt 2. For driving at 25mph in a 20mph zone 3. India 4. President Joe Biden 5. Boris and Carrie Johnson 6. Pakistan 7. The Seychelles 8. Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi 9. Chocolate 10. The Graf Spee, scuttled in 1939 You don’t say 1. Boris Johnson 2. Donald Trump, on appearing in court
1. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin 2. Scoop 3. The Thirty-Nine Steps 4. Moll Flanders 5. The Girl on the Train 6. Go Set a Watchman 7. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 8. Under the Volcano 9. Dead Souls 10. The Catcher in the Rye 11. Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone 12. Love
Verbals 1. Boris Johnson, on resigning as leader of the Conservative party 2. Liz Truss, on being elected leader of the Conservative party 3. King Charles, greeting Liz Truss for her first audience as prime minister with him 4. Sue Gray in her report on ‘Alleged gatherings on government premises during Covid restrictions’ 5. President
We’ve all witnessed significant change in the past few years with the pandemic, climate crisis and the strained world economy impacting everyone’s lives. The war in Ukraine is having a devastating human cost, and has reminded us all of the importance of strong defence and security in the face of Russian aggression. The Royal Air
The government is launching a deposit return scheme (DRS) for drinks containers, due to go live in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in late 2024. The Scottish government’s own scheme will come into force in Scotland in August next year. While the DRS aims to dramatically increase the proportion of containers returned and recycled, one
For generations, humankind has been focused on its terrestrial environment; shaping it through agriculture, urbanisation and conservation. Our aquatic environment, meanwhile, has been a comparatively unmanaged source of food, enabled transport, and is a location for leisure. It has also absorbed much of our CO2 production and been a repository of our waste from land.
Communities and governments around the world have recognised the scale of environmental damage caused to ecosystems by human behaviour. Calls for climate action have resulted in government policies to try to mitigate the worst impacts and halt, or even reverse, the damage that has been caused. Targets are set. The number of trees to be
Cell and gene therapies are advanced medical treatments for certain patients with debilitating or life-shortening diseases. They work by either altering the content of a person’s genetic code, or by replacing diseased or dysfunctional cells with healthy ones. The UK was the first country in Europe to reach agreements that would see some patients routinely
A willingness to advance ideas and be a pioneer is a hallmark of Morocco. It is the top country in Africa for both passenger car manufacturing and aeronautics. With the launch of the nation’s new brand Morocco Now the aim is to raise awareness of the incredible transformation that the country has undergone in the
We’re delighted to announce that The Spectator Economic Innovator of the Year Awards 2022 are open for entries. It’s a pleasure to welcome our new sponsor: Investec, the internationally connected banking, wealth and investment group. With its extensive UK regional network, Investec is known for the support it offers entrepreneurs across its range of high-quality
Research by the Social Market Foundation, sponsored by Phoenix Group, estimates the average person reaching retirement age is almost £250,000 short of the pension pot they’ll need to deliver the pension income they want. That’s a savings gap of £132 billion across the UK. Let those numbers sink in. They’re alarming, to say the least.
1. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens 2. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame 3. The Golden Bowl by Henry James 4. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford 5. From Here to Eternity by James Jones 6. I, Claudius by Robert Graves 7. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 8. Frankenstein by
1. Anish Giri 2. Nona Gaprindashvili 3. Jamie Njoku-Goodwin 4. Alireza Firouzja 5. Magnus Carlsen–Hikaru Nakamura 6. 2 Qf4+! gxf4 3 Rb7+ Kc8 4 Rc7+ Kd8 5 Rd7+ etc with a draw. The rook is immune due to stalemate. 7. Abhimanyu Mishra 8. Ian Nepomniachtchi 9. Garry Kasparov 10. Trafalgar Square, London 11. Yuri Averbakh
Rather odd Mars Michael Jordan Tower Bridge Moscow’s Lightning Winston Churchill Russia Jenners Sri Lanka El Salvador Don’t quote me Angela Rayner, the Labour deputy leader, commenting on the Conservatives The Queen, in a video message to COP26 Piers Morgan, on Good Morning Britain Boris Johnson, on lifting coronavirus restrictions Dominic Cummings, of Boris Johnson
COP26 has seen leaders from around the world pledge stronger action on climate change. But while the vast majority of us recognise that a warming planet is a threat to the world, do we know what it means for our lives closer to home? In June, the UK’s independent advisory body on climate change —
The next two decades will bring many challenges — not least climate change, geopolitical tensions and addressing inequality. Yet, at the same time, a range of revolutionary technologies are set to change much of our lives for the better. Campaign group Smart Energy GB commissioned Foresight Factory, a team of consumer trend experts focusing on
Addressing the threat of climate change will likely be the biggest challenge of our generation. However, research has shown that, despite the increased media focus on net zero, nearly half (44%) of us still feel unsure about what we should be doing. Smart Energy GB has warned that, unless governments and others address this gap
For two-thirds of the Earth’s history, two-thirds of its surface has been ocean. However, it is only in recent years that we have come to appreciate the scale of its life-giving power. A resource of clean energy; a producer of much of our oxygen; a regulator of climate; home for millions of different interrelated types
The move to electric vehicles (EVs) is already helping the UK reduce its usage of fossil fuels, while also driving down the cost of mobility and improving air quality. But even as growing numbers of people switch to EVs, their benefits cannot be taken for granted. Research estimates that the mass take-up of EVs could
