Doctor 3
‘According to the tests, your cholesterol level is way off the scale.’
The Spectator
Thursday
Myth
Greek myths revisited: Atlas holds up the world
Hepworth
‘She punched a hole when anyone compared her to Henry Moore.’
Bears 3
Gym 2
Lady
‘That’s no lady’
Begging 4
‘There, does that help?’
Cashpoint 2
‘A table for this evening? Sorry, we’re not looking that far ahead.’
Letters | 9 July 2015
The case for Daesh Sir: For once the admirable Rod Liddle has got it completely wrong (‘You can’t take the Islam out of Islamic State’, 4 July). We absolutely shouldn’t call the homoerotic, narcissistic death cult ‘Islamic State’ — not because it offends ordinary Muslims, nor because it has nothing to do with Islam (it
Barometer | 9 July 2015
Naming terror David Cameron and the BBC argued over what to call the terror group most papers refer to as Isis — with the PM preferring Isil and the BBC continuing to call it Islamic State. Two more terror groups whose names caused problems in Britain: — The Red Army Faction was a German terror
Portrait of the week | 9 July 2015
Home In his Budget, George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, slowed the planned rate of bringing in £12 billion of welfare cuts. He forecast a surplus by 2020. The bank levy would be reduced but a surcharge on bank profits imposed. The total of benefits that a family can claim a year would be
One-nation economics
In his hastily scripted victory speech, David Cameron hit upon a mission that he wanted to define his remaining years in office. ‘I want my party, and I hope the government I would like to lead, to reclaim a mantle that we should never have lost: the mantle of one nation,’ he said. The problem
Books and arts opener – 9 July 2015
Podcast: Fox hunting, the Budget and Harper Lee
The hunting ban could be gone soon – but the hypocrisy will linger on, says Melissa Kite in this week’s issue. Cameron knows he has to deliver something to the hunting fraternity now that he leads a majority government, because he promised a vote on repeal in his manifesto. The trouble is that he can’t
The Spectator at war: The eschatology of Austria-Hungary
From ‘The Crumbling of Austria-Hungary‘, The Spectator, 10 July 1915: SUPERFICIALLY Austria-Hungary may seem to have “come again.” Compared with the position a few months ago, when the Russians were bursting through the Carpathians, when Przemysl had just fallen, and when the major portion of Hungary was seething with distrust and discontent, the Empire of
