English journalist and newspaper editor
The Spectator Aug 07
Can I fucking swear yet?: Rod Liddle’s last column: The following column was written in 2024 for former Spectator editor Fraser Nelson when he left the magazine ...
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The Spectator Jul 18
Burnham’s bogus toughness: The horrible murder of Ann Widdecombe is being used both by Reform and its critics as a means of fighting about everything they want ...
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The Spectator Jun 13
The posh are persecuted for their accents: Mark Nowak, father of the murdered Henry Nowak, spoke powerfully in public after Vickrum Digwa was convicted of the ...
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The Spectator Apr 26
No one seems sure why Olly Robbins had to go: This session of parliament is due to end between 29 April and 6 May. Now the government is desperate for an Order ...
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Video shows heart-wrenching moment NYC mom realizes her 7-month-old daughter was shot dead
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The Spectator Mar 26
Jo Coburn and Charles Moore discuss how the Iran crisis has exposed Britain's defence deficit. With British warships committed to the Arctic and a new ... Show more
The Spectator Mar 25
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The Spectator Feb 09
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Is it time to abolish the BBC licence fee? Join us for our first Spectator debate of 2026 with Charles Moore and Allison Pearson ... Show more
BBC: defund or defend?
BBC: defund or defend?
The Spectator Feb 11
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The Spectator Jan 26
Real conservatives should join Reform: That sound you can hear is panic. In the past week, articles have appeared by leading Conservatives including Danny ...
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The Spectator Nov 09 25
Letters: Venezuela’s middle-class exodus: Minimum requirement Sir: Some of Charles Moore’s observations about the minimum wage are pertinent (Notes, 1 November) ...
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Thatcher would’ve recognised and disliked Putin’s tyranny, according to her biographer Charles Moore
The Spectator Oct 31 25
Minimum wage was a mistake: As others, including Nigel Farage, were quick to point out, Sarah Pochin got it wrong. She uttered words which ...
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The Spectator Oct 20 25
How Ronald Reagan & Margaret Thatcher became the political duo of the century
Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan forged what is perhaps the most formidable ... Show more
The Spectator Oct 18 25
The government is too concerned for the tender feelings of China: Poor old Hamas, losing all those dead Jews. The BBC reports that Hamas ‘could not locate the ...
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The David Frum Show: When Conservatism Meant Freedom: The biographer Charles Moore on Margaret Thatcher’s legacy, the soul of conservatism ...
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Margaret Thatcher was different from the modern right in many ways, Charles Moore says. “I think she was fundamentally a legitimist ... Show more
The David Frum Show
The David Frum Show
First Brands CEO Patrick James resigns amid $2.3-billion accounting scandal: James, a Malaysian-born entrepreneur, founded First Brands in 2013 and expanded the ...
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First Brands CEO James resigns amid bankruptcy process; turnaround expert in charge
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Paid articlePaywall First Brands founder Patrick James steps down as CEO: Charles Moore of Alvarez & Marsal to become ‘interim chief executive’ as well as chief restructuring ...
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The Spectator Oct 10 25
The frustrations of the Tory mindset: ‘The facts of life are Conservative.’ This sentence is often attributed to Margaret Thatcher, whose centenary falls next ...
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The Spectator Sep 26 25
Pine martens for Palestine: How can the nature sector respond to the genocide in Gaza? These are not my words. They appear in the subject box of an email which ...
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The Spectator Sep 18 25
Don’t rule out a Mandelson comeback: Daniel Kruger is a good and thoughtful man, whom I used to employ as a leader writer before he left for the higher calling ...
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The Spectator Aug 19 25
Nicola Sturgeon says she is moving to London because she ‘can’t breathe freely in Scotland’. That is how a great many of her fellow countrymen and women feel ... Show more
The Spectator Jun 23 25
OpinionBadenoch: Tories are ‘the adults in the room’: Today, Kemi Badenoch sat down with The Spectator’s chairman Charles Moore to discuss the major issues of our time.
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The Spectator Jun 14 25
The BBC’s Israel problem: Intrepidly, the BBC dared recently to visit Dover, Delaware – source, it implied, of starvation in Gaza ...
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The Spectator Jun 07 25
The EU can’t resist empire-building: A wearisome aspect of modern political polarisation is feeling forced to take sides. Until recently ...
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The Spectator May 01 25
Paid articlePaywall Mark Carney owes his victory to Trump: Congratulations to Donald Trump. It is almost solely thanks to his exertions that Mark Carney ...
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The Spectator Apr 03 25
Trump is giving us a taste of our own medicine: It seems the US State Department sees an impediment to free speech as an impediment to free trade with Britain ...
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The Spectator Mar 20 25
Putin is outwitting Trump: In the incessant conflicts of life and politics, people who know what they want tend to win. That is why Stalin won at Yalta and why ...
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The Spectator Mar 06 25
The bully-boy tactics of Trump and J.D. Vance: Just before Russia invaded Ukraine three years ago, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping announced a ‘friendship without ...
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The Spectator Feb 27 25
What will Zelensky’s fate be?: Kyiv We resemble pilgrims. Because of the war, no one can fly to Ukraine, and so we travel, romantically, by night train ...
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The Spectator Jan 30 25
My message to the Trumpists: Social media benefit from creating continuous belligerence in politics. For them, Donald Trump is the perfect politician ...
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The Spectator Jan 23 25
Will Trump remember his allies?: I had thought that having to be inaugurated indoors would have cramped Donald Trump’s style. Not so ...
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The Spectator Oct 10 24
'I believe that when John Major, who had no money, became prime minister, it was felt that he did not dress smartly enough for the role ... Show more
Who will dress Keir Starmer now? | The Spectator
Who will dress Keir Starmer now? | The Spectator
The Spectator Aug 25 24
‘The kings of Spain, Denmark, the Netherlands and Belgium and the sovereigns of Luxembourg and Monaco were all guests at the opening ceremony ... Show more
The Spectator Jul 25 24
'As President Biden sank more deeply into the mire this month, kind friends kept urging me to write in his defence, because respect for the old must be ... Show more
The Spectator Jun 20 24
'Our conference here is about Black Sea security, where I am the guest of UK Friends of Ukraine. Its subject reflects one of Ukraine’s greatest ... Show more
The Spectator May 30 24
'I would not be at all surprised if Gove were soon tasked by a Labour government with some interesting role designed to weaken Tory morale yet further – ... Show more
The Spectator May 09 24
The science behind Olivia Colman’s left-wing face: The new hunting year formally began last week. Should I resubscribe? Politically, the outlook is bleak ...
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The Spectator Mar 30 24
The three most radical words Jesus said: Some Jewish friends recently asked me: ‘What is Good Friday?’ At first, they said, they had thought it was so called ...
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The Spectator Mar 28 24
The three most radical words Jesus said: Some Jewish friends recently asked me: ‘What is Good Friday?’ At first, they said, they had thought it was so called ...
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The Spectator Mar 23 24
We have less freedom now than we did 40 years ago: Forty years ago this week, I became the editor of this paper. That is as long ago from now as was D-Day from ...
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The Spectator Mar 03 24
My trip to Kyiv with Boris Johnson: Last week, en route to Oxford, I dropped in on Boris Johnson at his rural retreat, where he is writing his ‘not exactly ...
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The Spectator Mar 01 24
My trip to Kyiv with Boris Johnson: Last week, en route to Oxford, I dropped in on Boris Johnson at his rural retreat, where he is writing his ‘not exactly ...
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The Spectator Feb 22 24
What is Prince William thinking?: In a statement, the Prince of Wales says he ‘refuses to give up’ on ‘a brighter future for the Middle East’ ...
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The Spectator Feb 08 24
Should King Charles have announced the news of his cancer?: Everyone seems to agree that it is better for royal personages to be open if they have cancer ...
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The Spectator Feb 06 24
Why should graduates give back to universities that seem to hate them?: It is now a given of Northern Ireland issues that mainlanders cannot be expected to ...
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The Spectator Jan 18 24
What Nikki Haley has over Trump: In June 2022, I interviewed Nikki Haley on stage for JW3, a Jewish organisation in north London. She was personable, clear ...
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The Crown dealt with one of most sensitive eras of the Royal Family - and I found it harrowing
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Key FactsThe Crown Finale: A Reflection on the Royal Family
Dec 17, 2023 · Reading time: ~30 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: news.sky.com
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: news.sky.com
- Six new episodes of The Crown are available, featuring beloved characters and concluding the series.
- Critics denouncing the series can celebrate its finale as the end of what they view as an inaccurate intrusion into the private lives of the British Royal Family.
- After six series and 60 episodes, The Crown comes to an end.
- The series challenges public views of the monarchy, provoking critics who insist it is fiction despite being based on real events and people.