The Spectator

Your nominations for The Spectator Threadneedle parliamentarian awards

A blue tide has washed over the latest nominations for The Spectator’s Readers’ Representative award. Last week, your votes were for parliamentarians from right across the political spectrum: Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat, even the occasional Ukipper. This week, they are mostly for Conservatives. Perhaps this is a sympathy vote following Liam Fox’s resignation. Perhaps it

The week that was | 21 October 2011

Here are some of the posts made at Spectator.co.uk over the last week. Daniel Finkelstein is left slightly underwhelmed by Martin Scorsese’s biopic of George Harrison. Fraser Nelson laments the poverty of Britain’s energy debate, and offers a bottle of champagne to anyone who can help to explain George Osborne’s growth plan. James Forsyth charts

CoffeeHousers’ Wall, 17 October – 23 October 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… | 17 October 2011

…here are some of the posts made at Spectator.co.uk over the weekend. Fraser Nelson says that unionists are in trouble: 39 per cent of Scots are in favour of independence. Matt Cavanagh notes that voters want immigration to be reduced, just not like this. James Forsyth wonders how Justine Greening will handle the airports issue, and