The Spectator - February 08, 2018

MATTHEW PARRIS There’s no housing shortage. It would be ea sier if t here were las for classier and more expensive models. Umbre ...

A very minor prophet Jordan Peterson may speak to millions – but not to me PETER HITCHENS ing this pressure, he overcame it — at ...

dance of single purpose — the glori- fication of a reality so that no matter how good it has suddenly become, it can get better ...

fit the country’s priorities. Northern Power- house fund anyone? The UK could also be brought closer together by introducing var ...

JAMES DELINGPOLE Extreme pain, of the purest intensity, changes everything prescribed Tramadol going spare. ‘Bosh one of those o ...

Add dwarf to cart Is it ever OK to hire a ‘little person’? POLLY MORGAN Y ou’re planning a party. You’ve hired the vaults of a f ...

LETTERS is considerably cheaper than food in China. All of this adds up to the current system that works well — so why try to fi ...

ANY OTHER BUSINESS| MARTIN VANDER WEYER Falli ng US sha res tell u s only t hat investors were overexcited in January to extermi ...

Titanic in Dry Dock, c.1911 Daisy Dunn — p40 James Walton searches in vain for a link between women’s suffrage and The Secret Li ...

BOOKS & ARTS BOOKS Women on the warpath Jane Ridley describes how campaigners for female suffrage in Britain tried every tac ...

Emmeline Pankhurst is carried bodily from a demonstration outside Buckingham Palace in 1914 suffragettes, some of whom were barb ...

BOOKS & ARTS Wise old birds John McEwen Owl Sense by Miriam Darlington Faber, £15.99, pp. 343 The Secret Life of the Owl by ...

if they are not themselves to be fatal- ly hidebound by the imperial past, must abandon their streak of self-hatred and the colo ...

BOOKS & ARTS doing in the Pentagon: how he discovered it was possible for a conscientious officer to, in effect, launch a nu ...

The Saki of sex Julie Burchill Bad Romance by Emily Hill Unbound, £14.99, pp. 251 How I love short stories! Long before the inte ...

BOOKS & ARTS choices — exercise, diet, sleep, work and so on — will prevent the onset of dementia, but they did not in Mitch ...

slowly, although for a historian such a hinterland was clearly a gift. The process was accelerated when he discovered a second-c ...

BOOKS & ARTS Wonder of Wenders Christopher Bray The Pixels of Paul Cézanne and Reflections on Other Artists by Wim Wenders, ...

than past it (as they do in most other mov- ies), does it follow that this technique makes the viewer ‘involved like never befor ...

BOOKS & ARTS ARTS Sea fever You won’t catch her on a cruise, but an exhibition at the V&A makes Daisy Dunn wistful for t ...