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Davey is a very immodest man with a great deal to be immodest about. ✍️ Madeline Grant
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Ed Davey is the perfect Lib Dem leader
Lib Dem leader Ed Davey is a very immodest man with a great deal to be immodest about
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/ed-davey-is-the-perfect-lib-dem-leader
about 8 hours ago
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Donald Trump: Sadiq Khan wants to put London under sharia law ✍️ Steerpike
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Trump: Khan wants to put London under sharia law
Donald Trump’s trip to the UK has finished and it appears his love-in with London has ended too. In a speech at the UN headquarters in New York, the US President took a pop at London mayor Sadiq Khan…
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/trump-khan-wants-to-put-london-under-sharia-law/
about 9 hours ago
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Farage savaged in Ed Davey’s speech. ✍️ James Heale
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Farage savaged in Ed Davey’s speech
This was the speech that liberals have been dreaming about all summer. For months, Nigel Farage’s Cheshire cat grin has been a fixture of British politics, as his bunch of merry men have run rings around...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/farage-savaged-in-ed-daveys-speech
about 10 hours ago
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Politicians and government have responded in a superficial way. ✍️ Druin Burch
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The problem with Jess’s Rule
NHS England has today introduced Jess’s Rule, asking doctors to take a ‘three strikes and rethink approach’.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-problem-with-jesss-rule
about 11 hours ago
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Britain’s inflation woes aren’t going away. ✍️ Ross Clark
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Britain's inflation woes aren't going away
Britain has a long-established reputation for leading other developed nations on inflation
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/britains-inflation-woes-arent-going-away
about 12 hours ago
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Duchess of York’s Epstein email spurred by ‘chilling’ call. ✍️ Steerpike
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Duchess of York's Epstein email spurred by 'chilling' call
Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York and former wife of Prince Andrew, has come under scrutiny this week after an email that saw her praising paedophile Jeffrey Epstein was unearthed. The Duchess’s spokesperson...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/duchess-of-yorks-epstein-email-spurred-by-chilling-call
about 12 hours ago
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Why Trump shouldn’t bail out Milei. ✍️ Matthew Lynn
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Why Trump shouldn’t bail out Milei
Javier Milei should sink or swim in the markets he champions. A rescue package from the Trump administration will prove a mistake.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-trump-shouldnt-bail-out-milei
about 12 hours ago
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By turning their buildings into platforms for international causes, town halls betray the very neutrality that holds the Republic together. ✍️ James Tidmarsh
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French town halls are weaponising the Palestinian flag
As Emmanuel Macron took to the global stage to recognise Palestine at the UN, over 80 defiant left-wing mayors back home turned their town halls into protest zones, draping them with Palestinian flags...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/french-town-halls-are-weaponising-the-palestinian-flag
about 13 hours ago
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Streeting: ignore Trump’s autism claims. ✍️ Steerpike
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Streeting: ignore Trump's autism claims
To the US, where President Donald Trump has suggested his administration has ‘found an answer to autism’. On Monday, Trump drew links between paracetamol and rising rates of autism across America....
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/streeting-ignore-trumps-autism-claims
about 13 hours ago
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Taking medical drugs is often a trade-off between risk and reward. ✍️ Ross Clark
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Is Donald Trump right to link autism with paracetamol?
Mothers who took paracetamol were quite likely to have been in worse general health than those who did not.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-donald-trump-right-to-link-autism-with-paracetamol
about 14 hours ago
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Her forgiveness of her husband’s killer was certainly impressive. ✍️ Theo Hobson
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Is Charlie Kirk a Christian martyr?
Erika Kirk presented her late husband as a prophet, in the tradition of Isaiah, and a paragon of Christian commitment
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-charlie-kirk-a-christian-martyr
about 14 hours ago
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The secret behind Ed Davey’s stunts. ✍️ James Heale
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The secret behind Ed Davey’s stunts
Each new day at Liberal Democrat conference means one thing: another stunt from Ed Davey. What possesses him to perform?
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-secret-behind-ed-daveys-stunts
about 15 hours ago
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The end of Fergie. ✍️ Alexander Larman
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The end of Fergie
Sarah ‘Fergie’ Ferguson, the beleaguered Duchess of York, has finally met her reputational Waterloo. Alexander Larman says goodbye.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-end-of-fergie
about 16 hours ago
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Rachel Reeves only has ugly choices. ✍️ Michael Simmons
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Rachel Reeves only has ugly choices
The Resolution Foundations says Rachel Reeves should shift the tax burden away from workers and onto pensioners.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/rachel-reeves-only-has-ugly-choices
about 17 hours ago
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A piece on Kirk’s murder, under the pseudonym ‘Lady Liberty’, drips with insinuations. ✍️ Gareth Roberts
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Private Eye's shameful Charlie Kirk article
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, a peculiar phenomenon has re-emerged: the casket caveat. Instead of simply condemning the dreadful murder of a young man, many eulogies to Kirk are laced...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/private-eyes-shameful-charlie-kirk-article
about 18 hours ago
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Although I was often ignored, he made a point of greeting me by my name with a firm handshake; the infamous charm was alive and well. ✍️ Arabella Byrne
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Carrying Peter Mandelson’s coat
Peter Mandelson’s tenure at the Design Museum mixed charm and champagne socialism. From the Dome to Epstein, he’s always been controversial.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/carrying-peter-mandelsons-coat
about 18 hours ago
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Seventies children’s classics such as Basil Brush, Trumpton and The Clangers have reached new audiences by way of YouTube. ✍️ James Innes-Smith
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A Bagpuss film is a terrible idea
A remake of the 1970s children’s TV show Bagpuss is in development – but nostalgia and stop-motion charm can’t be replaced by CGI.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-bagpuss-film-is-a-terrible-idea
about 18 hours ago
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Toasted garlic, sliced very thinly, is stunning if flash fried in sesame oil until it just turns brown. ✍️ Julie Bindel
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The gospel of garlic
Discover the many ways garlic transforms cooking, from mellow confit to sharp chips – and when to leave it out.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-gospel-of-garlic
about 19 hours ago
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The Australian prime minister’s decision was aimed squarely at the left wing of his own party. ✍️ Terry Barnes
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Will Australia regret its decision to recognise Palestine?
Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese foreshadowed the possibility of Palestinian recognition several weeks ago.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/will-australia-regret-its-decision-to-recognise-palestine
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What we could be seeing now is a fifth great awakening, but one that is more nakedly political. ✍️ Freddy Gray
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Charlie Kirk and America's fifth great awakening
Erika Kirk, the grieving widow, delivered the most powerful Christian message of all. She forgave her husband’s murderer.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/charlie-kirk-and-americas-fifth-great-awakening
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Never date a German man. ✍️ Elisabeth Dampier
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Never date a German man
Call me unpatriotic but, although I’m German, nothing could ever have persuaded me to date a German man. I married an Englishman, finding Teutonic attitudes towards romance unbearable. Dating can go...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/never-date-a-german-man
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This is the most Christian moment in America that I can recall. ✍️ Neal Pollack
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America pays tribute to Charlie Kirk
Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in an Arizona stadium on Sunday afternoon to honour slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/america-pays-tribute-to-charlie-kirk
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France has a long history of anti-Semitism on both the left and the right. ✍️ Gavin Mortimer
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Macron is abandoning France's Jews by recognising Palestine
The Socialists, the Communists and the far-left la France Insoumise rely heavily on the Muslim vote in their urban constituencies.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/macron-is-abandoning-frances-jews-by-recognising-palestine
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Seventy-seven years after the last High Commissioner left Palestine, his vision of two states for two peoples seems as far away as ever. ✍️ James Sunderland
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Starmer risks repeating Britain’s Palestine mistake
Seventy-seven years after the last High Commissioner left Palestine, his vision of two states for two peoples seems as far away as ever
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/starmer-risks-repeating-britains-palestine-mistake
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The wild swimmer is convinced that their leisure pursuit is the eco-pure equivalent of Shin Bet operatives making clandestine, highly dangerous incursions into the Gaza Strip. ✍️ Rob Crossan
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Wild swimmers are the most boring people in Britain
There’s much to enjoy about the autumn months in the UK. Teenagers are restricted to school playgrounds rather than the high street between the hours of nine and three. Landlords in rural pubs start...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/wild-swimmers-are-the-most-boring-people-in-britain
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‘They all attacked me,’ said Federico, ‘throwing me into the air.’. ✍️ Nicholas Farrell
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Stromboli is at war with goats
Those in charge of Sicily have at last swung into action after a quarter of a century of inactivity to cleanse an island beseiged by goats.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/stromboli-is-at-war-against-goats
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The world’s first public commercial rail service was delayed by half an hour due to engineering problems. ✍️ Alec Marsh
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Happy 200th birthday to our railway
You might have missed this because it hasn’t exactly been saturated with media coverage, but this week is the 200th birthday of Britain’s railway. In fact, it’s the 200th birthday of all railways,...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/happy-200th-birthday-to-our-railway
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King Charles hosted Donald Trump at Windsor Castle yesterday evening for a state banquet. This is the speech Trump gave.
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Full text: Donald Trump's state banquet speech
We had a very sick country one year ago, and today I believe we're the hottest country anywhere in the world.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/full-text-donald-trumps-state-banquet-speech/
4 days ago
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Has the reparations movement done anything for the victims of modern slavery? ✍️ Philip Hensher
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What has the reparations movement ever done for victims of modern slavery?
Slavery was – and importantly continues to be – a moral abomination. Its existence in the 21st century is a disgrace. Whole communities such as the Uighurs are subject to forced labour; two years...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-has-the-reparations-movement-ever-done-for-victims-of-modern-slavery
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There was much debate about how far Germany, having dragged Europe into war, was really western at all. ✍️ Nick Spencer
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The concept of ‘the West’ seems to mean anything you like
A hundred years ago, T.S. Eliot wrote to Geoffrey Faber, for whose publishing company he had just started work, complaining: ‘The Defence of the West… is a subject about which everyone thinks he has...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-concept-of-the-west-seems-to-mean-anything-you-like
4 days ago
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Having discarded his Presbyterian religion, Louis preferred the Edinburgh bars to its lecture halls. ✍️ Andrew Lycett
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The short, restless life of Robert Louis Stevenson
The discriminating Argentinian novelist Jorge Luis Borges once revealed his fondness for ‘hourglasses, maps, 18th-century typography, etymologies, the taste of coffee, and the prose of Stevenson’...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-short-restless-life-of-robert-louis-stevenson
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My husband first and last – by Lalla Romano. ✍️ Francesca Peacock
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My husband first and last – by Lalla Romano
In 1984 Innocenzo Monti died after a short illness. He and the writer Lalla Romano had been married since 1932 and had met in the late 1920s in her native Piedmont. Romano – a poet, painter and the...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/my-husband-first-and-last-by-lalla-romano
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Is China riding for a fall? ✍️ Tom Miller
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Is China riding for a fall?
The West gets China wrong. Spectator readers know that the country is a vampire state feasting on foreign intellectual property and spewing out phony economic data in its thirst for wealth and power....
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-china-riding-for-a-fall
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The mystery of Rapa Nui’s moai may be solved. ✍️ Maggie Fergusson
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The mystery of Rapa Nui’s moai may be solved
Boris Johnson claims that in his first year at Oxford he attended just one lecture. Delivered in the crepuscular gloom of the Pitt Rivers Museum, it was about Rapa Nui, the tiny Pacific island 2,200 miles...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-mystery-of-rapa-nuis-moai-may-be-solved
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Clegg’s book is no one’s ideaof a tell-all. Indeed it’sbarely a tell-anything. ✍️ James Ball
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Even now, Nick Clegg offers too little too late
Earlier this year a former staffer of what was then Facebook, now Meta, wrote a gossipy tell-all memoir about her time in the office there. It was a huge hit – especially after the company’s chief...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/even-now-nick-clegg-offers-too-little-too-late
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A portrait of alienation: The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, by Kiran Desai, reviewed. ✍️ Emily Rhodes
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A portrait of alienation: The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, by Kiran Desai, reviewed
Twenty years on from winning the Booker Prize with The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai returns with a vast masterpiece of a love story which has been longlisted for this year’s prize. Our two protagonists,...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-portrait-of-alienation-the-loneliness-of-sonia-and-sunny-by-kiran-desai-reviewed
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Why would your kindly granny become a monster, post mortem, bent on harming you? ✍️ Suzi Feay
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Why would your dead daughter climb out of her grave to harm you?
Yarnton, Oxfordshire. A teenage girl is dumped face down in a pit, her legs bent and tethered. Around her lie the crania, jawbones and ribs of several children. Taken alone, this scene of 9th-century...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-would-your-dead-daughter-climb-out-of-her-grave-to-harm-you
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800 years on, why is Aquinas Gen Z’s favourite philosopher? ✍️ Damian Thompson
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800 years on, why is Aquinas Gen Z’s favourite philosopher?
This year marks 800 years since the birth of the theologian St Thomas Aquinas. Aquinas, best known for his theory of natural law and his magnum opus the Summa Theologia, argued for the existence of God...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/podcast/800-years-on-why-is-aquinas-gen-zs-favourite-philosopher
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The tyranny of tipping. ✍️ James Tidmarsh
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The tyranny of tipping
At the Eurostar terminal at London St Pancras, on my way back to Paris, I stopped at the Station Pantry. It’s a counter at the back of the terminal, and it does a roaring trade because it’s the only...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-tyranny-of-tipping
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‘Children should be seen and not heard’ is probably a little harsh now. But adults who ape the language of children should be thoroughly ignored. ✍️ Julie Burchill
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Peter Mandelson’s greatest sin? Baby talk
Adults must learn to pay the basic respect to civil discourse of talking like grown-ups, says Julie Burchill – none of this 'yum yum', as Peter Mandelson wrote in Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘birthday book’.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/peter-mandelsons-greatest-sin-baby-talk
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As the resignation of the Deputy Prime Minister dominated the headlines, a significant announcement was slipped out. ✍️ Miriam Cates
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Why is the Assisted Dying Bill being rushed through the Lords?
As the resignation of the Deputy Prime Minister dominated the headlines, a significant announcement was slipped out
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-is-the-assisted-dying-bill-being-rushed-through-the-lords
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There was much more to Brian Sewell than the media caricature he played upon. ✍️ Robin Ashenden
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We need Brian Sewell more than ever
His passion for art began early – by the age of 8, he said, ‘there was not a major museum or art gallery in London I did not know.’
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/we-need-brian-sewell-more-than-ever
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The truth is that the EU is just not that into us. ✍️ Eliot Wilson
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Will Britain ever join the EU's defence loan scheme?
One EU diplomat described it as 'an instrument to develop the European defence industry', but it exists to develop the EU’s defence industry.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/will-britain-ever-join-the-eus-defence-loan-scheme
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The upshot of Macron’s massive miscalculation is a very angry and troubled country. ✍️ Gavin Mortimer
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Has France become ungovernable?
I’ve been chronicling the breakdown in law and order in France, but this year the country has entered a dangerous new phase.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/has-france-become-ungovernable
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In her youth, Little Edie dated Howard Hughes and had proposals from Joe Kennedy Jr and J. Paul Getty. ✍️ Madeline Grant
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Is Grey Gardens the greatest documentary ever made?
A middle-aged woman wearing what looks like Princess Diana’s infamous ‘revenge dress’ and a balaclava from an IRA funeral approaches the hole in the floor. The raccoon that lives there, clearly...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-grey-gardens-the-greatest-documentary-ever-made
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These pointillist paintings remain essential viewing in person. ✍️ Hermione Eyre
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Sondheim understood Seurat better than the National Gallery
In Sunday in the Park with George, Stephen Sondheim catches something of what makes Georges Seurat so brilliant – not just his technical flair, but his engagement with ordinary life. Sondheim has Seurat...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/sondheim-understood-seurat-better-than-the-national-gallery
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Amy had forgotten everything between 2016 and the present day. Which was in some ways just as well. ✍️ James Walton
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The makers of Doc don't seem to trust the show
The drama series Doc began with the most literal of bangs. While the screen remained black, the sound-effects team knocked themselves out by creating a spectacular crashing noise. When the lights came...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-makers-of-doc-dont-seem-to-trust-the-show
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R.S., needless to say, did not emerge from this fine, atmospheric documentary as husband of the year. ✍️ Daisy Dunn
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R.S. Thomas – terrific poet, terrible husband
Love’s Moment is one of those quiet radio programmes you’re unlikely to have read about. It aired without fanfare at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, an understated yet engrossing one-off, half-hour documentary....
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/r-s-thomas-terrific-poet-terrible-husband
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As Hitler grows into adulthood he gravitates towards the Freud family, muscling in on their summer holidays. ✍️ Lloyd Evans
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When Freud met Hitler
A new play by Lawrence Marks and Maurice Gran, the writers of Birds of a Feather, feels like a major event. This is a period drama that examines an imaginary association between Hitler and Freud and develops...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/when-freud-met-hitler
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Brett Anderson encouraged those fans whose knees were still up to it to congregate at the front. ✍️ Michael Hann
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Suede turn their fine new record to mush at the Southbank
I think a lot about Wishbone Ash. A disproportionate amount. Partly because I have had to listen to them for around ten hours while researching a book. Partly because when I was a kid, I always found...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/suede-turn-their-fine-new-record-to-mush-at-the-southbank
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