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Notes / Why do MPs send nude pictures of themselves?

Adam Dyster has gone to work for the shadow Defra secretary Steve Reed. I admit this is not an appointment which would normally trouble the political...

11.04.2024 8

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Notes / The London Library should leave us in peace

Reading only slightly between the lines of US foreign policy on Israel/Gaza, I detect that its most urgent aim is to get rid of Benjamin Netanyahu....

04.04.2024 3

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Notes / The three most radical words Jesus said

Some Jewish friends recently asked me: ‘What is Good Friday?’ At first, they said, they had thought it was so called because of the peace...

28.03.2024 10

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Notes / We have less freedom now than we did 40 years ago

Forty years ago this week, I became the editor of this paper. That is as long ago from now as was D-Day from then. It must seem as distant to...

21.03.2024 20

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Notes / Why are the photo agencies punishing Kate?

Media scrutiny of the Princess of Wales and her personal photoshopping of her Mothering Sunday photograph has been intense. One important set of...

14.03.2024 4

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Notes / Could I be on the National Trust Council?

The end of the Cold War offered the former communist countries the chance to live a western way of life. But it also brought back what was known as...

07.03.2024 10

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Notes / My trip to Kyiv with Boris Johnson

Last week, en route to Oxford, I dropped in on Boris Johnson at his rural retreat, where he is writing his ‘not exactly memoirs’. Unlike...

01.03.2024 10

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Notes / What is Prince William thinking?

In a statement, the Prince of Wales says he ‘refuses to give up’ on ‘a brighter future for the Middle East’. Nobody thought he had given up,...

22.02.2024 6

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Notes / Why should graduates give back to universities that seem to hate them?

It is now a given of Northern Ireland issues that mainlanders cannot be expected to understand them. (Arguably, it was ever thus.) So we know that...

01.02.2024 6

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Notes / Would Jesus really be against the Rwanda Bill?

Sitting in the Chamber late on Monday afternoon for the Lords debate on the UK-Rwanda treaty, I was impressed by the standard of oratory. Most of the...

30.01.2024 4

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Notes / What Nikki Haley has over Trump

In June 2022, I interviewed Nikki Haley on stage for JW3, a Jewish organisation in north London. She was personable, clear, well-briefed and...

18.01.2024 2

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Notes / The joys of the wireless

Obviously, one’s first instinct is to agree that parliament should step in and decree that all the hundreds of sub-postmasters convicted in the Post...

11.01.2024 2

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Divine Comedy / The literary canon of P.G. Wodehouse

When T.S. Eliot published ‘The Waste Land’ in 1922, it was seen as a masterpiece of modernism. It was, but it was also a work steeped in cultural...

26.12.2023 20

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The Spectator's notes / Who really controls The Spectator?

Now that the government has triggered a public-interest intervention (PIIN), who will end up owning the Telegraph group, and this paper, after...

08.12.2023 5

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The Spectator's notes / The importance of remembering the Holodomor

At the end of last week, the Holodomor was commemorated in Britain. There was a service at Westminster Abbey. But the chief point to notice is that no...

30.11.2023 3

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The Spectator Notes / Will Artificial Intelligence create Artificial Stupidity?

At a time when almost everything gets worse, it is nice to recount that this State Opening of Parliament was better than the last one. Last year,...

09.11.2023 2

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Notes / Cambridge’s China complicity

UK-China Transparency (UKCT) was formally launched this week (see Notes, 16 September). Its aim is in its name. There is sadly little transparency...

02.11.2023 2

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Notes / My dinner with a glamorous Taiwanese MP

Taipei I arrive here shortly after Taiwan National Day, which is 10 October. The day might seem strangely chosen, because the date commemorates the...

26.10.2023 5

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Notes / The timeless sophistication of the Beano

The pattern of Israeli/Palestinian conflicts is always forced by coverage into what people call a ‘narrative arc’. The attacks are usually started...

12.10.2023 10

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Notes / In praise of Rupert Murdoch

In March last year, when the bosses of Jesus College, Cambridge, lost their legal battle for a ‘faculty’ to take down the 17th-century memorial of...

28.09.2023 3

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