The latest issue of the Spectator is out today, and here are my top five features:
Might Cameron face a general strike? Pick up today’s papers, and you read more and more unions planning to strike to protest against utterly necessary and inevitable cuts. Dennis Sewell points out that Greek trade unionists have started to tour Britain, encouraging protests along the lines that the rich caused the mess so they, not the public sector workforce, should pay the price. Underlying this is the belief by the Unions that the Tories lack resolve, and will buckle – as Heath did. The odds are that the unions will get together to test Cameron’s resolve, and the result could well be a general strike.
Is there any culture outside London? Ben West took his play to England’s regional theatres, only to find a “cultural desert” where only “Elvis impersonators and stand-ups” can draw audiences.
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