The Spectator, 1916: To win the war, lose the dogs
From ‘Food dictatorship’, The Spectator, 27 May 1916: Nobody would like to see the whole race of dogs exterminated, but…
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Losing faith
A landmark in national life has just been passed. For the first time in recorded history, those declaring themselves to…
Barometer
A man in full A relic said to contain a fragment of St Thomas à Becket’s elbow arrived from Hungary for…
The dogs of peace
From ‘Food dictatorship’, The Spectator, 27 May 1916: Nobody would like to see the whole race of dogs exterminated, but…
Letters
Leave’s grumpy grassroots Sir: James Delingpole should join us at a Remain street stall. He would soon be disabused of…
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Potrait of the Week: prisons to be ‘academies’and West to arm Libya
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