The Spectator’s Notes
The Spectator’s notes
The fact that nothing leaked about Mrs May’s snap election tells you much of what you need to know about…
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Each Easter, I think of David Jones (1895-1974). He was a distinguished painter and, I would (though unqualified) say, a…
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Cadbury and the National Trust stand accused of taking the Easter out of Easter eggs. The Trust’s ‘Easter Egg Trail’…
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An email from the high-minded Carnegie Endowment, marking the triggering of Article 50 and the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of…
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We keep being incited to find it heartwarming that Martin McGuinness and Ian Paisley were known as the Chuckle Brothers.…
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We keep being incited to find it heartwarming that Martin McGuinness and Ian Paisley were known as the Chuckle Brothers.…
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We keep being incited to find it heartwarming that Martin McGuinness and Ian Paisley were known as the Chuckle Brothers.…
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The great achievement of the Scottish Nationalists is to persuade people outside the borders of their own nation — including…
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After he left the Blues and Royals in 1981, the young Tristan Voorspuy drove a motorbike from London to Cape…
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After he left the Blues and Royals in 1981, the young Tristan Voorspuy drove a motorbike from London to Cape…
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Chief Constable Simon Bailey, who heads Operation Hydrant, the police investigation of ‘non-recent’ child abuse cases, now says that paedophiles…
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Chief Constable Simon Bailey, who heads Operation Hydrant, the police investigation of ‘non-recent’ child abuse cases, now says that paedophiles…
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Last month, at Policy Exchange, I met a charming, quiet American general called H.R. McMaster. In conversation, I was struck…
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Last month, at Policy Exchange, I met a charming, quiet American general called H.R. McMaster. In conversation, I was struck…
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How does Vladimir Putin think about the world? It becomes dangerously important to know. I still have not seen a…
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How does Vladimir Putin think about the world? It becomes dangerously important to know. I still have not seen a…
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As we have been reminded this week, the most famous words (apart from ‘Order, order’) ever uttered by a Speaker…
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As we have been reminded this week, the most famous words (apart from ‘Order, order’) ever uttered by a Speaker…
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As he left the editorship of The Spectator in March 1984, Alexander Chancellor wrote in this space: ‘When I joined…
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As he left the editorship of The Spectator in March 1984, Alexander Chancellor wrote in this space: ‘When I joined…
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The English tradition of dissenting judgments in important civil cases is a good one. They are often better than the…
The Spectator’s Notes
The English tradition of dissenting judgments in important civil cases is a good one. They are often better than the…
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It is hard to be shocked by anything in these tumultuous times, but I was brought up short by the…
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It is hard to be shocked by anything in these tumultuous times, but I was brought up short by the…
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At the Golden Globes ceremony, Meryl Streep attacked Donald Trump because he ‘imitated a disabled reporter’. ‘When the powerful use……
