Netherlands
The case against assisted suicide
Those in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill insist they’ve addressed critics’ principal concerns and that…
The Netherlands is growing tired of lockdown restrictions
On Wednesday at De Kleine Komedie, the oldest theatre in Amsterdam, the sound of comics on stage will be interspersed…
Europe gripped by a fifth wave
How quickly things change. Just a month ago many EU countries were being praised for keeping some Covid restrictions in…
Is climate change to blame for Germany’s flooding?
Greta Thunberg has declared the floods in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands to be the product of man-made climate change,…
The shooting of a journalist – and the dark world of Dutch organised crime
In an attack that has rocked the Netherlands, a leading Dutch crime reporter is fighting for his life in hospital…
Soggy thinking
As the chairman of the Committee on Climate Change, Lord Deben, observed this week, there is a bizarre dislocation between…
Bruegel’s Bethlehem
The world depicted by the Flemish master is not so different from our own, says Martin Gayford
Where have all the leaders gone?
No one wants to pay the price of speaking for the free world
The only way to end the war on drugs is to stop fighting it
It’s surprisingly boring, legalising weed. In Colorado, where recreational doobie has been utterly without censure for, ooh, about a week…
The Spectator’s Notes
There has naturally been plenty of unfavourable comment on how the Revd Paul Flowers, the ‘crystal Methodist’, was allowed by…
