Spectator articles

Recent articles from Spectator

Diary.(political correspondence)(Viewpoint essay)
June 13, 2009... It now feels as remote as one of those doomed summers before the first world war, but there was a time when Team Brown seemed like it was destined to rule the universe. As editor of Today--my job in the mid-1990s--you occupy one of the best vantage-points in politics, and I was among a group...

The Spectator's notes.(United Kingdom Labour Party)(Viewpoint essay)
June 13, 2009... Labour got 15 per cent of the vote in the European elections, in which only 34 per cent of the electorate voted. That is roughly five per cent of those entitled to vote. When you add those too young to vote, this means that, on average, only one in every 25 people you pass in the street voted...

Diary of a Notting Hill nobody.(Diary entry)(Column)
June 13, 2009... MONDAY What a triumph! Not that we're complacent. While this is undeniably a resounding victory which paves the way to our impending general election landslide, we are not taking anything for granted. In fact we are mindful that we may still lose. Except that we so obviously won't!...

Flash Gordon.(Cartoon)
June 13, 2009... GOING, GOING... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

The real sickness is Labour's, not Brown's: Fraser Nelson says that the governing party has lost its hunger for office--and is now unhealthily dominated by the mega-union Unite and its political chieftain, Charlie Whelan.(United Kindom Labour Party and Gordon Brown)
June 13, 2009... Lord Mandelson seemed to glide, rather than walk, into the terrace bar of the House of Commons on Monday evening, where he was greeted as a conquering hero by Labour MPs. His Lordship had certainly done the seemingly impossible: helped Gordon Brown to survive Labour's worst election defeat in...