Co-op

Banana leaf, wood-effect on knitted? Choosing my mother’s coffin

25 May 2019 9:00 am

The mental fruit of yet another sleepless night was that my mother was determined to arrange her funeral as quickly…

Turn down those token directorships, girls, and tell them you want to be chairman

15 March 2014 9:00 am

Last Saturday was International Women’s Day, but we celebrated early in Helmsley when my Yorkshire home town was featured in…

The Spectator’s Notes

23 November 2013 9:00 am

There has naturally been plenty of unfavourable comment on how the Revd Paul Flowers, the ‘crystal Methodist’, was allowed by…

The naughty Methodist is a comic sideshow: it was professionals who ruined the Co-op

23 November 2013 9:00 am

The naughty Reverend Flowers will be a comic footnote in the history of the financial crisis — but no more…

This cant about protecting the kiddies is really about protecting the coalition

3 August 2013 9:00 am

I have tried very hard to become an afficianado of pornography, seeing as it is by far the most popular…