The Spectator
Thursday
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‘Could you turn the bias down?’
Spectator letters: the Rowntree legacy, and a suggestion for the Met police
Betrayal of Trust Sir: Rod Liddle has traduced the Quaker values of the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust that include non-violence, equality and truth in his piece, ‘Jihadi John, Cage and the fools who give it money’, 7 March. Mr Liddle identified three recipients of JRCT grants: Jawaab UK, Cage, and Teach na Fáilte. Jawaab UK
How (not) to poison a dog
Deadly to dogs An Irish setter was allegedly poisoned at Crufts, using beef containing slug pellets. Some other substances with which dog-show rivals could poison your pooch: — Chocolate contains theobromine, a stimulant which dogs cannot metabolise, and which causes the heart to race. It takes just 1 oz per pound of body weight of milk chocolate and a
Portrait of the week | 12 March 2015
Home Philip Hammond, the Foreign Secretary, said that ‘a huge burden of responsibility’ lay with those who acted as apologists for those who committed acts of terror. Parliament approved new obligations for passenger carriers to restrict the travel to or from Britain of people named as a terrorist threat. The Charity Commission required the Joseph
James McAvoy is wrong – the arts are better off without subsidy
The season of cringe-making acceptance speeches at arts awards ceremonies is nearly over, thank heavens. But it hasn’t passed without a most fatuous contribution from James McAvoy as he accepted a nomination for best actor at the Olivier Awards this week. He should have stuck to sobbing and thanking his agent. Instead, he launched a
Books and arts – 12 March 2015
The Spectator at war: Uniform behaviour
From ‘News of the Week’, The Spectator, 13 March 1915: We are glad to note that officers in uniform have been forbidden to visit night clubs in London. The gambling night clubs have ruined several young officers, and the dancing clubs are almost quite as undesirable in these times. But why does the order apply
Officers’ off hours
From ‘News of the Week’, The Spectator, 13 March 1915: We are glad to note that officers in uniform have been forbidden to visit night clubs in London. The gambling night clubs have ruined several young officers, and the dancing clubs are almost quite as undesirable in these times. But why does the order apply only
A guide to Easter revision colleges
Ashbourne College 17 Old Court Place, London W8 4PL | T 020 7937 3858 | E admin@ashbournecollege.co.uk | W www.ashbournecollege.co.uk Courses: All main subjects offered at all levels. Specific individual unit revision courses offered in mathematics; otherwise AS or A2 for specific sessions restricted to Ashbourne’s exam boards. Useful course pack provided and
Uncommon entrances
Getting your child into a decent school has long been high on a parent’s list of priorities, and British parents now have to compete with foreign parents for whom £30,000 a year is small change. It is for people like these, Will Heaven explains, that many of our top schools are opening branches as far
Wednesday
The Spectator at war: Dining with the enemy
From ‘Prisoners of War’, The Spectator, 13 March 1915: Let us mention also a passage from Hume’s history quoted by Sir Graham Bower in an excellent letter to the Morning Post of Wednesday. Hume is describing the campaign of Edward III :— “The French officers who had fallen into the hands of the English were conducted
Tuesday
The Spectator at war: A German view of the war
From ‘The Military Situation’, The Spectator, 13 March 1915: How does the war look as a whole? The best way to answer this question is to consider it from the point of view of some perfectly impartial person living in Germany, but with intellect and judgment unaffected by any patriotic emotions. What would such a person
Monday
The Spectator at war: Fortress Europe
From ‘News of the Week’, The Spectator, 13 March 1915: The more the operations at the Dardanelles are considered the more clearly is their vast importance realized. If in co-operation with the Russian Fleet from the Black Sea we succeed in taking possession of what remains of Turkey in Europe, including the great fortress of
Sunday
The Spectator at war: Prize rules
From ‘News of the Week’, The Spectator, 6 March 1915: The great German campaign against our shipping, under which we were to be cut off from all human aid and every merchant ship that dared to approach our ports torpedoed and sunk, has ended in what can only be called an amazing fiasco. In the
Saturday
The Spectator at war: Kitchener’s conception
From ‘Lord Kitchener’, The Spectator, 6 March 1915: We are grateful to Lord Kitchener because at the very beginning of the war he formed what Mr. Bonar Law calls “a gigantic conception,” not only of the military needs of the nation, but of our ability to meet those needs. Other men and lesser men, even
Friday
The Spectator at war: The willing badge
From ‘The “Willing” Badge’, The Spectator, 6 March 1915: A final ground for giving badges to those who have offered themselves and been rejected must be mentioned. Under any scheme for the presentation of badges a register should be kept giving in general terms the ground on which each man was rejected—namely, medical reasons, such
Thursday
Robots
‘The rise of the machines is more prosaic than I expected.’
Selfie 5
Getaway
‘It’s so wonderful you’re buying me an engagement ring, but why do we need a getaway driver?’