We will remember them A German diplomat called on Britain to commemorate but not celebrate the centenary of the Great War. Some of the events planned so far: — Candle to be extinguished in Westminster Abbey at 11 p.m. on 4 August — First world war paintings to be displayed on 22,000 poster sites around
Home The cost of the HS2 railway line was expected by some in the Treasury to rise from £43 billion to £73 billion. The number of new homes being built in England rose by 6 per cent in the three months to June. The United Kingdom has lost more than 40 per cent of its
The forecast is bad. Football is back. Gloom strikes. Cure the malaise by reading the book reviews in this week’s Spectator. Here’s a selection: Richard Davenport-Hines introduces the celebrated American novelist and businesswoman Willa Cather to a British audience: ‘Cather was a pioneering career woman who in the late 1890s supported herself as a magazine editor
‘Flying fish. Flying foxes. Birds, bats… You really like killing things that fly, don’t you?’
‘I’m finding it hard moving forward in life.’
‘I know you wanted to find a quiet part of the beach but we’ve walked too far now.’
‘I hope you haven’t got any skeletons in your YouTube...’
‘Apparently some of our pupils were born in wedlock. We must do all we can to ensure they’re not treated as outcasts.’
Pandora’s box sets
‘It was much more fun sticking someone’s head down the toilet.’
‘…over, the white cliffs of Dover…’
‘How embarrassing… nobody said it was a black-tie do.’
‘Why do we spend so much on foreign aid when we could be giving it to charity bosses?’
