From ‘How it looks to a German’, The Spectator, 17 April 1915: Try to imagine how things must look to a German who dares to put off the mask of self-complacency which the German people have deliberately worn ever since the beginning of the war and to face the facts, the whole facts, and nothing
From ‘Some reflections of an alien enemy: the contradiction between being and feeling an Englishman, by a Czech’, The Spectator, 17 April 1915: What I most regret having lost is my previous unawareness of there being any difference between me and Englishmen. In saying we, I used to mean we English people; somehow or other I
From ‘News of the Week’, The Spectator, 17 April 1915: The chief event, or rather sensation, of the week has been the German aircraft raids—first on the Tyne on Wednesday, and then on Thursday over Lowestoft and Malden and other parts of South Suffolk and North Essex. Both raids were quite futile. The raid on
In a View from 22 podcast special, Fraser Nelson, James Forsyth and Isabel Hardman discuss the implications of the Conservative manifesto, which was announced today. You can read the full manifesto here and Isabel’s snap reaction here. Will Tory promises on issues such as childcare, housing and income tax be enough to convince voters that they are
From ‘Friendship and the War’, The Spectator, 10 April 1915: WE are all losing our friends. This is true in a tragic sense, because our friends are dying in battle. But there is a lighter sense in which it is true also, and which is also connected with the war. There is so much work to be
From ‘The Possibilities of Thrift’, The Spectator, 10 April 1915: IT has, perhaps, not yet been sufficiently realized that the country is passing through what may almost be called an economic revolution. Large numbers of the working classes who, let it be frankly admitted, were often underpaid are now in receipt of incomes which, in
‘I don’t like the look of this.’
‘They seemed to drink all the time in those days.’
‘The swamp, the swamp, always we go to the swamp. Why can’t we head north this year?’
‘When I was your age we had to make our own porn.’
‘You laughing hyenas at the back, why don’t you just come out here to the front and then we can all share the joke?’
‘You were right – it’s not the cat.’
‘It’s not working, Raymond — I feel like you’re judging me.’
‘Let’s promise everyone a pay rise twice the rate of inflation!’
‘According to our records, you only have two full-time jobs.’
‘For God’s sake, let me get drunk first!’
‘Or this is the election model — it features both a spin cycle and a counter-spin cycle.’
‘Oh no — he’s being difficult again.’