The Spectator

Who cares about abortion?

Thanks to Nadine Dorries’ amendment to the Health and Social Care bill, abortion rights have been discussed a great deal this week – both inside and outside of Parliament. In her cover article for this week’s Spectator (out today), Mary Wakefield says that this debate has revealed a “strange and unpleasant consensus… that abortion is

CoffeeHousers’ Wall, 5-11 September

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… | 5 September 2011

…here are some of the posts made at Spectator.co.uk over the weekend. Hamish Macdonnell reveals Murdo Fraser’s plans to disband the Scottish Conservatives. Fraser Nelson supports the idea, and says Nick Clegg’s opposition to profit-making schools is self-defeating. James Forsyth says the government won’t back down on its planning reforms. In Triploi, Justin Marozzi visits

Letters | 3 September 2011

We had no choice Sir: ‘Britain remains an expeditionary nation keen on shaping the world,’ says James Forsyth (Politics, 27 August). Come off it, James. We weren’t consulted about Libya any more than we were about Iraq (a referendum would have been nice), but if ‘the nation’ means ‘the people’ then I’m sure that if