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The Spectator becomes the world’s longest-lived current affairs magazine

16 February 2020

2:04 AM

16 February 2020

2:04 AM

This weekend The Spectator reaches a truly historic milestone. For forty years, it has been the oldest current-affairs or literary magazine in the UK, since Blackwood’s Magazine (1817-1980) at last came to an end. But now, in its 2,300th month, it becomes the longest-running news magazine in the world, taking that title from the journal that started the genre.

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