Broad Oak Magazine

A letter to the Spectator magazine, emailed to them today: Sir: Your editorial (“People Power”, 20 February) welcomes Conservative proposals...

Sir: Irwin Stelzer (“ No more consensus: this time there is a choice ”) holds up Ronald Reagan as a model of a Conservative working for the ...

Fraser Nelson in the Spectator : To comprehend the scale of the sickening task awaiting George Osborne if he becomes chancellor, consider th...

A letter to the Spectator (unpublished), posted here on 2nd November 2008. We seem to be edging towards the "unsurprising", though...

The words... In truth, gold has been a poor investment for a long time... Other safe havens have done much better... Government bonds... Sw...

Let's think about people to whom $25 would make - is making - a difference. Rory Sutherland's column in The Spectator this week is a...

I'm still working on looking at the Dow in real (CPI-adjusted) terms. Meanwhile, note that in two previous cycles, the Dow dropped to a...

Sir: Your leader (“ Riders On The Storm ”, 1 November) suggests that current investor sentiment is “excessively negative”. That depends upon...

The Spectator magazine has published my recent letter ; heavily edited, but at least it was the first in the list, so that's some sort o...

Let's see if they bin this one: (n.b. I've made a few alterations in the hour since posting) Sir; Your leader (“ Long live capitali...

I am constitutionally a sceptic ( a term which, like "humanist", has been degraded to mean simply atheist, a sense I don't int...

In early times, learning was only to be had by digging and mining; it is now the circulating medium. Men may become learned in many ways bes...