Milk
The Spectator
Thursday
Corn
‘So this is what you do all day. Sit at the computer watching corn.’
Shoal
Dodgems
Piggies
‘At last, some interest!’
Fracking2
‘Why do I always fall for bad boys? He’s a fracking engineer.’
Metamorphosis
‘Don’t come in! I’m changing.’
Fracking 4
‘You’ve been supergluing yourself to other women!’
Boadicea
‘Here comes another equal pay request.’
Battle 3
Surround
Surround sound
Clipboards
Syria: A war without a purpose
There is something deeply disturbing about switching on the television and finding Jack Straw talking about the need to take military action against a Ba’athist dictator who is using weapons of mass destruction against his own people. Tony Blair has also popped up to urge moral purpose. And all this before the UN weapons inspectors
Let Osborne finish the job
Upon taking office, David Cameron promised himself that he would resist the temptation to sack ministers in response to every scandal. He would have a major reshuffle halfway through his government and another one before the election. That would be all. He is now understood to be weeks away from deciding who should go where,
Portrait of the week | 29 August 2013
Home The nation settled down to watch the Paralympic Games on television. Some 2.5 million tickets had been sold for events. The government reconsidered building a third runway at Heathrow after all. Grant Shapps, the housing minister, said that ‘all options should be considered’, even though the Transport Secretary, Justine Greening, whose constituency is under
Barometer | 29 August 2013
One-legged wonder The Paralympic Games began in 1960 and can trace its origins to the 1948 International Wheelchair Games, held for ex-servicemen at Stoke Mandeville hospital in 1948. Before that, however, a disabled German-American gymnast, George Eyser, put in a remarkable performance at the 1904 Olympic Games in St Louis. — Eyser, who emigrated to
Letters | 29 August 2013
Reasons to try a tyrant Sir: The premise of Douglas Murray’s otherwise compelling essay (‘Dictating terms’, 25 August) is mistaken. He doubts whether the conviction of malevolent dictators by the International Criminal Court acts as a deterrent to other wicked leaders. Of course it does not. Nothing will deter a monster from iniquity. The principal
Letters: Peter Hitchens vs Nick Cohen, and the case against the middle class
Piggies in the middle Sir: Your feature ‘The strange death of the middle class’ (24 August) assumes that young people who do not attend fee-paying schools cannot have access to the same opportunities as those who do. I attended my local comprehensive in the first decade of this century. Despite the variable teaching quality, I
Books and Arts – 29 August 2013
