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Colin Freeman

The Spectator

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Immigration / Trinidad is sick of Britain’s lax asylum system

As political speeches go, it struck familiar themes. An island nation was being overrun by dangerous criminals, taking advantage of its asylum system....

22.03.2026 10

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Trinidad is sick of Britain’s lax asylum system

As political speeches go, it struck familiar themes. An island nation was being overrun by dangerous criminals, taking advantage of its asylum system....

22.03.2026 10

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Colin Freeman

Ukraine has entered the grey zone

11.02.2026 30

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The dark side of Danish hygge

17.11.2025 10

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The Brits who fought in Ukraine deserve to be remembered

05.10.2025 10

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Stabbed in the back / Ukraine’s Foreign Legion was doomed from the start

05.09.2025 10

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Stabbed in the back / Ukraine’s Foreign Legion was doomed from the start

05.09.2025 30

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Ritual revival / Why the young worship folk horror

03.09.2025 20

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My Fredrick Forsyth connection

14.06.2025 10

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Dust up / What Warfare gets wrong about Iraq

29.04.2025 10

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‘Trump is a coward’: meet the US soldiers who served in Ukraine

03.04.2025 10

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Print and be damned / The sad decline of the local paper

01.04.2025 20

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Vanity fare / In defence of self-publishing

19.03.2025 20

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Congo’s darkness / Why does the beheading of Christians not make headlines?

17.03.2025 10

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Congo’s darkness / Why does the beheading of Christians not make headlines?

14.03.2025 10

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Why does the beheading of Christians not make headlines?

13.03.2025 30

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Ukraine wants its nuclear weapons back

27.02.2025 20

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Rock bottom / Why are music biopics so bad?

11.02.2025 20

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String theory / Why we remember Dylan

29.01.2025 20

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