This week The Spectator endorsed the Tories and David Cameron. Our cover headline read, ‘Give Cameron the keys.’ Now, I doubt that Gordon Brown was too surprised to miss out on The Spectator endorsement. But I must admit to being rather amused to hear that a copy of The Spectator was provided in every seat back pocket on the flight that the PM took up to Scotland.

It’s The Spectator’s summer party today, and in a rather important year. It was exactly 300 years ago that Joseph Addison & Richard Steele first published the earliest incarnation The Spectator. This blog is named for the coffee houses that had sprung up all over London at that time — the original destinations for The Spectator. It had gossip, opinion, character assassina...

Just to flag up to CoffeeHousers that we’ve launched a separate area to the website: Spectator Live. Going to www.spectator.co.uk/live will open up what we hope will be your bulletin board for Election 2010. It collects all election-related content from around the Spectator website – so posts from Coffee House, from our team of bloggers, and the like. But there are also a few new bells...

We're lucky to have the Spectator's very own Notting Hill Nobody, and infamous Tory insider, Tamzin Lightwater, as a member of the Spectator's special election panel.  You can read her dispatches, over at Spectator Live.

There’s a lot of bad news around, but some things are going right in Britain. Sales of The Spectator are on the rise again, for the first time in four years. Pretty soon, if the trend holds, more people will be buying the magazine than at any point in our 183-year history. I thought CoffeeHousers may like to know a bit more about the forces behind this, and what we at The Spectator are up to...

Just to remind CoffeeHousers that the deadline for the Spectator's short story competition is fast-approaching.  Entries have to be in before the end of Thursday, 25 June.  Here are details for anyone who's interested: To celebrate the launch of the Spectator Book Club, The Spectator is giving you the chance to have a short story published in the magazine. To enter, write a sho...

As part of our ongoing efforts to improve Spectator.co.uk, we’d like to know a bit more about you, our readers, and why you visit the site. So, if you’ve got ten to fifteen minutes to spare, please click here to take the Spectator survey. As a thank you for taking part, your name will be included in a draw to win a case of wine courtesy of the Spectator Wine Club. Three winners will be...

Yesterday I revealed that Spectator magazine had hastily cancelled its screening of the film House of Numbers. In the spirit of openness and transparency that they constantly demand of others, the Spectator abruptly deleted the event page off their website (see the Google cache) and remained very quiet about it on their blog.

Just to flag up that, because of the Easter weekend, the content from the latest issue of The Spectator has been uploaded to the website a day earlier than usual.  You can access all the articles here, but here are some highlights: Rod Liddle says that the Church of England has forgotten its purpose. Fraser Nelson claims that the worst may be yet to come. And The Spectator gives its take on t...

Earlier this week, we launched the online Spectator Book Club.  You can access it by clicking here; clicking on the Book Club tab at the top of any Spectator.co.uk page; or by entering www.spectator.co.uk/books into your address bar.  Once there, you'll find a host of content to satisfy even the most ardent booklover - from a discussion board and Book of the Month choices, to l...