‘Oh my God! You seem to know everything about me.’
The Spectator
Thursday
Knives
‘Apparently our new neighbours have a stage act. Probably a singing duo or something.’
Telly
‘Darling, come quickly — Clare Balding’s not on.’
Tv 5
‘High-definition TV...low-definition plot...’
Cigarettes 2
‘In my day we had sweets that looked like cigarettes. They’re banned now, of course.’
Bob 2
Policeman
‘I’m an undercover policeman, but it’s my day off.’
Witches 3
Divorce 5
Finance
‘You are declared bankrupt. Carry on like it’s no big deal.’
Sugar 2
‘Stop! It’s 11 per cent sugar!’
Why British mothers need a tax break
Next week’s Budget marks George Osborne’s last chance to make a game-changing reform before the next election. The Chancellor will have his boasts ready: he’ll say that Britain has the fastest growth of any developed country. What he won’t say is that no developed country has needed to pile so much debt onto its citizens
Spectator letters: Slavery continues to this day; and why Russia’s re-emergence as a world power is down to Obama’s apathy
Slavery isn’t over Sir: I was alarmed to read Taki’s piece in this week’s High Life (8 March) which claimed that ‘slavery… has been over since 1865, except in Africa’. The Centre for Social Justice, whose board I chair, last year published its groundbreaking report It Happens Here, exposing the desperate plight of those in
Do wars always start in years ending ‘14’?
Years of war Imaginative souls have tried to compared the situation in Ukraine with that which preceded the first world war 100 years ago. Are years ending in 14 especially violent? — 1414 saw the Polish-Teutonic war, one of a dozen skirmishes between Poland and Teutonic knights between the 14th and 16th centuries. The war
Portrait of the week | 13 March 2014
Home Ed Miliband, the leader of the Labour party, promised that, if elected, his administration would hold a referendum on membership of the European Union only if there was a new transfer of power to Brussels, which he called ‘unlikely’. If Scotland votes for independence, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds might have to
Books and Arts – 13 March 2014
Wednesday
Ed Miliband’s speech on Europe: full text
In a speech today at the London Business School, Ed Miliband set out Labour’s policy on an EU referendum: unless there are further transfers of powers, there won’t be one. Here’s what he said: listen to ‘Ed Miliband on an EU referendum’ on Audioboo It is great to be here at the London Business School. For fifty
