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Saturday
Letters | 5 November 2011
• Clock watching Sir: Peter Hitchens’s cover story ‘Hour of Surrender’ (29 October) was predictable, reactionary and dangerously short-sighted. The argument for changing the clock is simple: daylight is a limited and valuable resource — to maximise the benefits afforded by daylight, we should have more of it in evenings when we are most active
Barometer | 5 November 2011
• Initial problems The leaders of the eurozone countries have hatched a plan to bundle up dodgy Greek government debt and sell it to the Chinese. Without any apparent sense of irony, the debt will be sold in the form of a Special Purpose Investment Vehicle — known as Spiv for short. Some other unfortunate
Portrait of the week | 5 November 2011
• Home St Paul’s Cathedral decided not to take court action against anti-capitalist demonstrators who, since 15 October, had kept 200 tents pitched outside. The Corporation of London suspended its own legal action. The Rt Rev Graeme Knowles resigned as Dean of St Paul’s, a post he had held since 2007. His resignation followed that
Don’t blame the Greeks
One can’t help but admire the Greeks. To be sure, they lied and cheated their way into the euro, and even the threat of a referendum on the bailout may yet tip the eurozone into a financial abyss. But there is something to be said for actually consulting the people about their future. Greece faces
Books of the Year | 5 November 2011
Our regular reviewers were asked to name the books they’d most enjoyed reading this year. More choices next week • A.N. Wilson Rachel Campbell-Johnson’s Mysterious Wisdom: The Life and Work of Samuel Palmer (Bloomsbury, £25) is one of those rare biographies which is a work of literature: beautifully written, overwhelmingly moving. A great art critic,
Friday
The week that was | 4 November 2011
Here is a selection of a posts made at Spectator.co.uk over the last week. James Forsyth has news of a Cabinet row about the euro and looks at the post-riots political landscape. Fraser Nelson chides Nick Clegg for claiming to create jobs and says the birth of the world’s 7 billionth person should be celebrated,
November poetry competition
The votes are in and the decision is made. The winner of last month’s poetry competition is Sam Gwynn, for this entry on the theme of ‘dirt’: If dirt is bad, then so are we and so is history, For all of us were dirty once, as dirty as can be. Our milieu was the tillage where
Monday
CoffeeHousers’ Wall, 31 October – 6 November 2011
Welcome to the latest CoffeeHousers’ Wall. For those who haven’t come across the Wall before, it’s a post we put up each Monday, on which — providing your writing isn’t libellous, crammed with swearing, or offensive to common decency — you’ll be able to say whatever you like in the comments section. There is no
Just in case you missed them… | 31 October 2011
…here are some of the posts made at Spectator.co.uk over the weekend. Douglas Murray visits the protestors at St Paul’s. James Forsyth says Charles Moore and Matthew Parris are right about the protests. Fraser Nelson suggests that the elites are too disconnected from the Eurosceptic masses. Pete Hoskin says the word of the weekend is “repatriate”.
