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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,…
Guillotine
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Happy birthday, Barclaycard – even if you turned out to be a ticking time-bomb
‘In years to come we shall be able to claim that we pioneered in this country the general everyday use…
Conservative notes
Here’s how you raise a generation of Islamophobes: take a million kids who go to church once a year and…
The six best reasons to vote Remain
Like almost everyone, I’ve piled angrily into this fight. But as the debate nears resolution I feel ashamed of all…
No. 412
Black to play. This is from Arnason-Keene, London 1981. How did Black bring his bishops to life? Answers to me…
An age of broken promises
An intelligent middle-aged, middle-class woman told me the other day that she plans to vote Leave on 23 June because she…
Confessions of an England fan
Listen http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/268140526-the-spectator-podcast-brexit-strategy-what-would-the.mp3 If you’re a proper football supporter, getting excited about England on the eve of a major tournament is…
Your problems solved
Q. When going out to dinner I’ve found some people will send everyone a list of the other guests so…
Paris notebook
In the few days I’ve spent in Paris, I’d say the terror alert level is fluctuating between a little antsy,…
Cover 11 June 2016 AU
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The rise of groomzilla
We had been engaged for maybe three weeks before it became apparent I’d be the one throwing hysterical wedding-related hissy…
Five-star fantasy
Tom Cruise is an exceptionally beautiful American man with an invincible smile, but he is a member of a cult…
ADD
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Royal Ascot
It’s time to scuttle under a rock if you are a Folkestone or Cornish crab: 7,000 of them will be…
Trump
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The man who changed the world
On 31 October 1517, as every child once knew, an obscure German monk nailed his 95 theses to the door…
Football
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El Sid
Was there life before darts? I am old enough, just about, to remember such a time. One minute, in or…
New
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Far from ideal
There were few subjects which escaped Oscar Wilde’s barbed wit: dentists, cynics, Americans, literary critics, democracy, the working classes, the…
The sport of kings
Queen Victoria disapproved heartily of the racing set and of her son Bertie’s involvement in the sport. But she must…
Del-con notes
After Turnbull, who? With three weeks to the election, and the government still labouring despite what should have been a…
The leap
This week the Prime Minister devoted a speech to what he regarded as six lies being told by his opponents…
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