plebgate
Much ado about nothing
Andrew Mitchell, as he readily admits, was born into the British Establishment. Almost from birth, his path was marked out:…
Letters
Disband Ofsted Sir: Dennis Sewell’s damning indictment of Ofsted (‘Ofsted in the dock’, 13 December) stopped short of the logical…
The Spectator’s notes
Pope Francis is favourably compared to Pope Benedict in the media. I hope it is not being slavishly papist to…
Diary
Soon after I joined the Sun as managing editor (among other things, I used to review novels for The Spectator),…
Barometer
A fatal shot The sad death of Australian batsman Philip Hughes was a reminder that a cricket ball can kill.…
Aristotle on David Mellor
Andrew Mitchell and his ‘effing pleb’ of a policeman, David Mellor and his ‘stupid sweaty little shit of a taxi…
Long life
This is a tremendous time for ‘ordinary’ people. The elitists, the members of the ‘establishment’, are all on the run.…
The Spectator’s Notes
David Cameron is surely right to think that Jean-Claude Juncker is not the man to relieve the European Union’s woes,…
The Spectator’s notes
I write this before the results of the European elections, making the not very original guess that Ukip will do…
Portrait of the week
Home Three Police Federation representatives accused of giving misleading accounts of a meeting with Andrew Mitchell over the Plebgate scandal…
