[audioplayer src=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/spectator/TheViewFrom22_07_August_2014_v4.mp3″ title=”Douglas Murray and Tim Stanley discuss Baroness Warsi’s resignation” startat=462] Listen [/audioplayer]Dear Sayeeda, Thank you for your letter today, in which you set out your reasons for resigning from the Government. I was sorry to receive this. I realise that this must not have been an easy decision for you to make and
From ‘News of the Week’, The Spectator, 8 August 1914: ‘A good many excellent people are talking now as if the present war would mean the destruction of all civilization. That, we venture to say with all respect, is rubbish. Civilization is a far tougher plant than these good people imagine. That the war is
This is the first in a series of daily extracts from the Spectator during the course of the first world war. The aim is not to tell the full story of the conflict, or even to provide a full assessment of our coverage of it — that requires deeper expertise and a wider view. Our
Britain is braced for the anniversary of the outbreak of world war one. Memorials and events are taking place across the country this weekend. Not so in Germany, where reticence reigns. This week’s Spectator features a piece by Antonia Oettingen, a descendant of Karl Max von Lichnowsky, the Kaiser’s ambassador in London from 1912-1914. She
‘What’s happened to us? We never says LOL any more.’
‘Sorry I’m late. I was stuck in a jam.’
‘They spoke so loudly I could barely hear my phone ring.’
‘I’ll see you on court.’
‘A true sportsman doesn’t fish using a bloody drone, sir.’
‘Just leave, please. We don’t like your sort round here.’
‘We’re a very inclusive school — we even have an award for stupidest pupil.’
‘That’s Pope Innocent X — he was framed.’
