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Condemning – – – – –
Littering our beautiful countryside is both unsightly and potentially prejudicial to the environment. So we run expensive campaigns to condemn…
Conservative notes
Yet another reason to keep the Crown: as part of her 90th birthday honors list, the Queen knighted Roger Scruton.…
Bridge
Just take the money! That’s the philosophy of many rubber bridge players when it comes to bidding — or rather…
Green with envy
I’ve been dudded. This is what happens when you elect, then re-elect, a Greens MP. When your electorate goes from…
Wowsers in the West
“WA: The State of Excitement” the slogan on the number plates used to read. So risqué. But that was a…
Former Australian PM John Howard backs Brexit
Speaking at a private Liberal Party fundraiser in Sydney on Wednesday night, Australia’s second longest serving Prime Minister, John Howard,…
Diary
When an old friend X came to dinner in London, I sampled what it must have been like during the…
Naked lunches and hidden bigotry
Have you got your names down yet for the Bunyadi? I’d hurry, if I were you. There’s currently a waiting…
The six best reasons to vote Leave
For me, as for so many people, it’s a heart versus head issue. I’m emotionally drawn to Europe. I speak…
Hillary’s other half
Listen http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/268140526-the-spectator-podcast-brexit-strategy-what-would-the.mp3 Women of the world unite! Back Hillary Clinton! Otherwise, prepare to be damned to that special place in…
So much for education, education, education
‘Your old man’s barking!’ I remember hissing indignantly at my then best friend Toby Young way back in the 1980s…
Win some — lose too many
In this centenary year of the Somme, it is refreshing to read a book about the Great War that is…
Who put the Moral Authority into the AMA?
In a post-religious world of hollowed out identities, the notion of moral authority is more contested than ever. The former…
Super/Robbery etc
So now it’s NIMSA – the Not In My Superannuation Account. The same commentators and dissident conservatives who have been…
Beach
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Barometer
Boxing brains Muhammad Ali died aged 74, after more than 30 years with Parkinson’s Disease. How many boxers suffer brain…
Australian letters
LGBT etc Sir: I was offended and humiliated by Simon Collins (4 June 2016) omission of my sexuality identification tag.…
Rome vs Brussels
The principle of countries working harmoniously together is wholly admirable. Why, then, has the European Union become such a disaster area?…
War
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Brexit: the first 100 days
The Spectator Podcast Christopher Meyer, James Forsyth and Isabel Hardman discuss the first 100 days of Brexit At 5.15 a.m.…
2264: The A-Team
Six unclued lights, the sixth spelt in its original way, are members of a team proclaimed dramatically at a venue…
The Spectator’s Notes
One of the most influential and learned figures in the British European debate is Rodney Leach. In the 1990s, he…
How’s your father
‘Very funny, I don’t think,’ said my husband when I mentioned Harry Tate, although Tate died in 1940 and even…
Help! I’ve started to care about politics
Once upon a time, I didn’t really care about politics. Not viscerally. Growing up in a political family, I suppose,…
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