Steve Baker makes the case for compromise: To Buckingham, where a tribe of true believers met on Saturday to attend the Margaret Thatcher Freedom Festival ...
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I’m a junior doctor – here’s why I won’t be striking: The British Medical Association (BMA) has this week announced a new four-day strike for junior doctors ...
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Sadiq Khan’s green vision risks impoverishing Britain: Earlier this week, Chris Skidmore and Sadiq Khan announced they were ‘teaming up’ to defeat the ...
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The Great Caucasian Game: Stroll around the elegant capitals of Georgia and Armenia and you could be almost anywhere in Europe. The grand boulevards ...
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What the conviction of Rahul Gandhi means for India: The conviction of Rahul Gandhi – an opposition politician and dynastic heir to three of India’s past prime ...
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Facts, not fear, should shape our view of Europe’s banks: After the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse drama, some investors are understandably ...
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Sending uranium ammo to Ukraine isn’t an escalation: It didn’t take long for the Kremlin to exploit the news that Britain will be supplying depleted uranium ...
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Sunday shows round-up: MPs caught in sting operation: MPs caught in sting operation were acting ‘within the rules’ It was Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove ...
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The SNP candidate that could be Sunak’s secret weapon: In less than 24 hours the winner of the SNP leadership contest will be announced. Yet it’s safe to say ...
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Why Kate Forbes is still the SNP’s best hope: They have thrown everything at Kate Forbes. She has been subjected to a secular inquisition marked by triviality ...
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Scotland is better off without the Greens in government: It ought to be pretty obvious to anyone in the SNP that the Greens are more trouble than they are worth.
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The rise of the modern British B-movie: If there’s a phrase that captures the frantic energy of the modern British B-movie, it’s the concept of the ‘heart attack ...
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In defence of duck à l’orange: Duck à l’orange is so deliciously retro, it’s almost a cliché of kitsch. It seems hard to believe that there was a time when it ...
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The bittersweet comedy of ageing: Ladies’ Lunch and Other Stories, by Lore Segal, reviewed
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Living in a state of fear: a haunting memoir: The Fear, a memoir by the author and artist Christiana Spens, opens with an account of the most Parisian of ...
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The remarkable prescience of Alexis de Tocqueville: Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) produced what his biographer Hugh Brogan called ‘the greatest book ever ...
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Ofsted’s zealous overreach: Obviously it is not the fault of Ofsted that a headteacher, Ruth Perry, killed herself after her school, formerly rated ‘outstanding’ ...
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The high price of low interest rates: You’ll recall that I’ve railed for years against zero interest rates, which transplanted a cancerous marrow into the very ...
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What I’ve learned from a lifetime of travelling: In the language of the Mapuche people of Patagonia, futa (I’m told) means ‘river’ and leufú means ‘big’ ...
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The joke is on America: I was brought up on Dan Quayle jokes. You know the ones – like the gag that the then vice-president had turned up in Latin America and ...
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An innate contradiction: Mount St Restaurant reviewed: The Mount St Restaurant lives above the Audley Public House on Mount Street, ‘a traditional neighbourhood ...
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My search for alien life: The James Webb space telescope, the most powerful telescope ever built, has gathered some extraordinary images since it was launched by ...
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How to lose friends and ghost people: In Elizabeth Day’s new book about the fragility of friendships, annoyingly but memorably entitled Friendaholic ...
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Ghost children: the pupils who never came back after lockdown: ‘There was this guy in my year who never came back to school after lockdown ...
spectator.co.uk/article/ghost-children-the-pupils-who-never-came-back-after-lockdown/
Letters: The dangers of certainty: Uncertain times Sir: Kate Andrews’s article on the era of economic certainty (‘Crash test’, 18 March) is not the first article ...
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How healthy do we think we are?: Beyond a joke Is it time to rewrite an old joke? A letter published in Time in 1963 suggested that heaven would consist of ...
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How the ancient Greeks defined citizenship: In the ancient world, where life was insecure and refugees and asylum seekers not uncommon ...
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Childcare: an inconvenient truth: Wyndham Lewis once said that ‘the ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season’ – but that, of course ...
spectator.co.uk/article/childcare-an-inconvenient-truth/
The killer next door: growing up in the murder capital of Wales: It was about this time last year when I stopped receiving the daily messages. At first ...
spectator.co.uk/article/the-killer-next-door-growing-up-in-the-murder-capital-of-wales/
Why No. 10 fears Boris’s banishment: Even now, months after he was forced to resign, Boris Johnson has a potency that no other British politician can match ...
spectator.co.uk/article/why-no-10-fears-boriss-banishment/
The secrets of Highgate Cemetery: Things are hotting up at Highgate Cemetery. Or they’ll need to if the grander tombs are to survive ...
spectator.co.uk/article/the-secrets-of-highgate-cemetery/
ChatCCP: how will China cope with AI?: The Chinese Communist party faces a conundrum: it wants to lead the world in artificial intelligence and yet it is ...
spectator.co.uk/article/chatccp-how-will-china-cope-with-ai/
The mild-mannered economist who could end Erdogan’s rule: In modern Turkey, as in ancient Byzantium, the factions and passions of the stadium crowds are a key ...
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Deutsche Bank’s collapse would be a threat to the whole eurozone: It could be next month. It might be next week. Or it might well happen over the weekend ...
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Russian missiles blown up in Crimea: Ever since last February’s invasion, Russia has used Crimea – annexed in 2014 – as a base for its military ...
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The overuse and abuse of ‘fascism’: I would be very happy if I never had to hear the name Gary Lineker again. He was a vague presence in my childhood thanks to ...
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Dmitry Medvedev and the weakness of Putin’s Kremlin: It’s a long time since Dmitry Medvedev was last considered a potential liberal hope for Russia ...
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Did Scotland’s minimum alcohol pricing work? A look at the data: Has Sturgeon's minimum unit pricing policy for the retail of alcohol reduced alcohol-related ...
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A 16-1 tip for the Topham Chase at Aintree: One of the keys to successful ante-post betting it to choose horses whose trainers are skilled at targeting big races ...
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Watch: Nadine Dorries savages the Privileges Committee: Boris Johnson was all probity and contrition on Wednesday when it came to the small matter of the ...
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Watch: Marcon removes luxury watch during pensions TV clash: Oh dear. It seems that Emmanuel Macron has done it again. The preening French president was in the ...
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Why did it take Seb Coe so long to see sense over transgender athletes?: World Athletics has decided to protect women’s sport by restricting it to females ...
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Benjamin Netanyahu has made his troubles even worse: Israeli politics is rarely quiet, but recent events have taken the drama and volubility to another level ...
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What's going on in France?: This morning Buckingham Palace has announced that King Charles’s State visit to France has been cancelled as the country struggles ...
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Don’t get too excited about the return of high street shopping: Until the turn of the year it was taken for granted that Britain would descend into recession in ...
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The mild-mannered economist who could end Erdogan’s rule: In modern Turkey, as in ancient Byzantium, the factions and passions of the stadium crowds are a key ...
spectator.co.uk/article/the-mildmannered-economist-who-could-end-erdogans-rule/
What the Cambridge dons drink: In June last year, King’s College Cambridge made more than £1 million from an auction of just 41 lots from its wine cellar ...
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The ebb and flow of life on a houseboat: In the spring of 2021 I took a man to a pub in Hackney and bought him a drink. Perhaps he should have been doing the ...
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The perverse and addictive appeal of Netflix’s You: In our risk-averse, deeply fearful age, the idea of one of the most popular shows on any streaming service ...
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Musicals are killing theatre: This has been an agonising time for those of us who love Julian Sands. On 13 January, he went for a one-day hike up Mount Baldy ...
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France is on a knife edge: Thursday was a day of anarchy in France. In Lorient a police station was attacked, in Bordeaux a town hall sacked.
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Nicola Sturgeon’s successor should be careful what they wish for: Can we be sure that whoever wins on Monday will still be leader for the Scottish parliament ...
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Why Boris Johnson might escape a partygate punishment: After several months of anticipation, two contentious legal submissions from Lord Pannick KC and a bumper ...
spectator.co.uk/article/without-a-smoking-gun-johnson-may-escape-his-partygate-punishment/
Nicola Sturgeon’s successor should be careful what they wish for: Can we be sure that whoever wins on Monday will still be leader for the Scottish parliament ...
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Could the markets force Macron to back down on pension reforms?: Is Emmanuel Macron reaching his Liz Truss moment when financial markets finally determine his ...
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Starmer wants to steal crime from the Tories: It’s tempting to see Keir Starmer as a political wind-up merchant given the number of times he likes to quote ...
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Why is Sadiq Khan giving the Met police Ulez camera footage?: Sadiq Khan was quick out of the blocks to join the condemnation of the Met Police following the ...
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Will the interest rate hike be enough to tame inflation?: There was no easy option for the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) this week ...
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Why No. 10 fears Boris’s banishment: Even now, months after he was forced to resign, Boris Johnson has a potency that no other British politician can match ...
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The decline and fall of the DUP: Along with death and taxes, life has only one other certainty: the DUP will never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
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Starmer squirms over foreign criminals: ‘Too clever by half’ was the verdict of many pundits when it was revealed that Sir Keir had been tapping up Sue Gray as ...
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The mild-mannered economist who could end Erdogan’s rule: In modern Turkey, as in ancient Byzantium, the factions and passions of the stadium crowds are a key ...
spectator.co.uk/article/the-mildmannered-economist-who-could-end-erdogans-rule/
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Ron DeSantis is coming for Trump: Donald Trump faces legal jeopardy about payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, but his Republican opponents face political ...
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Should the SNP leadership contest be stopped?: Yesterday saw the final televised debate between the three contenders for leader of the SNP and First Minister of ...
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Ghost children: the pupils who never came back after lockdown: ‘There was this guy in my year who never came back to school after lockdown ...
spectator.co.uk/article/ghost-children-the-pupils-who-never-came-back-after-lockdown/
A nose of wet chihuahua: the rich vocabulary of wine: Some decades ago, there was a Tory MP called John Stokes: eventually, and deservedly, Sir John ...
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Jonathan Portes – my part in his downfall: In 2018, the Equality and Human Rights Commission commissioned and promoted a report which predicted that an extra 1 ...
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Rishi Sunak was wrong to publish his tax returns: In truth, there were not a lot of surprises when the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak published his tax returns on ...
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The trial of Boris Johnson: Boris Johnson sat through a grueling four-hour hearing into whether the former Prime Minister deliberately misled parliament ...
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Portrait of the week: Boris on trial, SNP in crisis and Rupert Murdoch’s fifth marriage
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The Fed’s rate rise shows it is confident about the banks: So, things really are different this time. The US Federal Reserve has decided to raise its Federal ...
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Five things we learned from Boris’s Privileges Committee grilling: Boris Johnson has just finished a mammoth three hour evidence session in front of the ...
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Russian missiles suggest Putin isn’t interested in a ‘peace plan’: On Xi Jinping’s recent visit to Moscow, Vladimir Putin suggested that China’s peace plan could ...
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