The Spectator

Just in case you missed them… | 5 March 2012

…here are some posts made on Spectator.co.uk over the weekend: Fraser Nelson says Theresa May is showing Andrew Lansley how reforming public services should be done and explains Alex Salmond is following the Brownite economic path. James Forsyth says Steve Hilton’s return depends on Cameron’s radicalism and examines the Prime Minister’s pitch to women voters.  Peter Hoskin

Letters | 3 March 2012

Pension scheming Sir: As a pensions professional who has witnessed his once-mighty industry’s sustaining of blow after blow, I was heartened to read The Spectator’s call for Conservatives to resist the temptation to make ‘yet another raid on pension funds’ (Leading article, 25 February). The government’s lack of understanding of pensions tax relief was revealed

Barometer | 3 March 2012

Sister ships The Costa Allegra, sister ship of the Costa Corcordia, suffered a fire off the Seychelles. Are families of ships jinxed? —The Titanic had two sister ships. The Olympic collided with a naval vessel off the Isle of Wight soon after its maiden voyage in 1911, and again with a lightship off New York