Shouts from the sidelines.

Sometimes journals that make up the national press manage to inculcate through articles thought and comment from readers that are more than just knee-jerk, xenophobic reactions. Hats off to the Spectator then for its coverage of the looming, likely fraught debate, over amendments to the CFP.


First printed in 1828 as a weekly paper on politics and the arts, the weekly Spectator's editorial line, is generally left of centre, although a small with a number of 'leftish' writers make regular contributions.