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Keir Starmer is downplaying the Islamist threat to Jews

At the anti-Semitism “summit” in Downing Street, Sir Keir Starmer achieved a personal first. He used the word “Islamists.” But in order to...

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Charles Moore

The Spectator’s notes / Cling on, Sir Keir

People laugh at Sir Keir Starmer for failing to acknowledge that he has almost no hope of survival. This is unfair. Until you absolutely know you will...

14.05.2026 10

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Charles Moore

Keir Starmer is downplaying the Islamist threat to Jews

At Tuesday’s anti-Semitism ‘summit’ in Downing Street, Sir Keir Starmer achieved a personal first. He used the word ‘Islamists’. But in...

08.05.2026 20

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Charles Moore

Olly Robbins’s next move

This session of parliament is due to end between 29 April and 6 May. Now the government is desperate for an Order in Council to kill it off by 9 a.m....

02.05.2026 10

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Charles Moore

The Spectator’s notes / Can you answer this quiz intended for seven-year-olds?

‘Modernity’ is often behind the times. On Wednesday, parliament pushed out all remaining hereditary peers, although we live in an age when...

01.05.2026 10

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Charles Moore

No one seems sure why Olly Robbins had to go

This session of parliament is due to end between 29 April and 6 May. Now the government is desperate for an Order in Council to kill it off by 9 a.m....

26.04.2026 10

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Charles Moore

The Spectator’s notes / The only ‘civilization’ Trump will destroy is his own

If, as Donald Trump had threatened, ‘a whole civilisation’ had died on Tuesday night, the whole civilisation concerned would have been that of the...

19.04.2026 20

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Charles Moore

The Spectator’s notes / The only ‘civilisation’ Trump will destroy is his own

If, as Donald Trump had threatened, ‘a whole civilisation’ had died on Tuesday night, the whole civilisation concerned would have been that of the...

13.04.2026 10

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Charles Moore

The Spectator’s notes / The only ‘civilisation’ Trump will destroy is his own

If, as Donald Trump had threatened, ‘a whole civilisation’ had died on Tuesday night, the whole civilisation concerned would have been that of the...

13.04.2026 10

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Charles Moore

The Spectator’s notes / Does it matter if Prince William believes in God?

The Prince of Wales seeks to assure us that, as a friend puts into his mouth, ‘I might not be at church every day, but I believe in it.’ That...

03.04.2026 10

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Charles Moore

The Spectator’s notes / Does it matter if Prince William believes in God?

The Prince of Wales seeks to assure us that, as a friend puts into his mouth, ‘I might not be at church every day, but I believe in it.’ That...

27.03.2026 30

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Charles Moore

The Spectator’s notes / Will books soon become extinct?

I am glad that BBC Radio 4 is producing a series called How Reading Made Us, presented by the subtle, super-literate Times of London columnist James...

22.03.2026 20

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Charles Moore

The Spectator’s notes / Will books soon become extinct?

I am glad that Radio 4 is producing a series called How Reading Made Us, presented by the subtle, super-literate Times columnist James Marriott. I...

16.03.2026 30

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Charles Moore

The Spectator’s notes / Will books soon become extinct?

I am glad that Radio 4 is producing a series called How Reading Made Us, presented by the subtle, super-literate Times columnist James Marriott. I...

16.03.2026 20

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Charles Moore

The Spectator’s Notes / Does Sadiq Khan approve of colonising?

How to report Iran? It is a huge story. Perhaps as many as 30,000 people were recently murdered there by the tottering regime, but it won’t let...

24.02.2026 20

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Charles Moore

The Spectator’s Notes / Does Sadiq Khan approve of colonising?

How to report Iran? It is a huge story. Perhaps as many as 30,000 people were recently murdered there by the tottering regime, but it won’t let...

24.02.2026 20

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Charles Moore

Nigel Farage is not infallible

30.01.2026 30

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Charles Moore

The Spectator’s notes / Nigel Farage is not infallible

29.01.2026 20

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Charles Moore