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Illegal streaming of the Premier League is a result of fans being priced out

Illegal streaming of the Premier League is a result of fans being priced out
17.01.2025 2

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Lessons from my dog, Lenny – and why we should live by them

Lessons from my dog, Lenny – and why we should live by them
13.01.2025 3

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The fight to stay young is as scary as getting old

The fight to stay young is as scary as getting old
09.01.2025 7

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Come on, Keir – have the the backbone to tell Musk to take a hike

Come on, Keir – have the the backbone to tell Musk to take a hike

What has depressed you most about the world starting up again? Returning to work? The horrible weather? Not having the darts to watch? Well, I’ll...

06.01.2025 5

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The picture which could define British politics

Could this be the picture which defines the next period of British politics? There they were, like three brothers in arms, in front of a remarkable...

20.12.2024 2

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I thought Manchester City's good times would never end – now look at us

I wouldn’t exactly say that all I know about life I have learned from football, but I sometimes wonder what sort of a person I would have become had...

16.12.2024 6

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Lunch is for wimps? Try telling that to me in the 80s

Way back in 1982, I joined The Observer as a young, impressionable journalist. On my first day in the office, I was invited to lunch by one of my...

12.12.2024 3

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I was there on the dark day The Observer was bought by The Guardian

Now that the railway workers and the junior doctors have settled their differences with the Government, it is left to a group of liberal-minded...

06.12.2024 5

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My house in Oxfordshire keeps flooding – and I've only got myself to blame

I live in a small village in Oxfordshire, at the foot of a valley through which the River Glyme – whose soft waters were once fundamental to the...

29.11.2024 3

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Calls for a general election are more than just an online stunt

It is probably in keeping with the spirit of the age that Michael Westwood, our latter-day Wat Tyler, is a publican, whose mission is to sell the...

26.11.2024 7

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My bruising run-in with John Prescott

“There was no one quite like him in British politics.” Tony Blair said it first, and with the most authority. Alastair Campbell echoed the...

21.11.2024 3

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Allison Pearson is not a test case for the limits on freedom speech

Let’s take a mirror to a story that has been running in some newspapers for the past week, something that, for The Daily Telegraph at least,...

19.11.2024 1

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Good on you, Gary: you've got balls

About 18 months ago, I was walking through central London with Gary Lineker, on our way to a dinner at which he was speaking. It was around the...

12.11.2024 3

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James McClean's poppy protest is about freedom - and that we should celebrate

James McClean, at 35 years old, is coming towards the end of a 13-year professional football career in England that has taken in stints at...

11.11.2024 4

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Trump's win has made being 'woke' deeply unfashionable

On Tuesday evening, I texted a friend in America to say how fearful I was that Donald Trump would win the presidential election. He texted back,...

07.11.2024 3

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Right policy, wrong delivery: Labour only has itself to blame for farmers' fury

I’m not a farmer, or a landowner, and nor do I run a family business, so I don’t have a particular reason to find last week’s Budget...

04.11.2024 2

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The film that made me laugh and cry – and which you probably won't have seen

Garry Shandling’s brand of comedy was not to everyone’s taste. His confessional, neurotic schtick, and his fretful tone, was representative of...

24.10.2024 2

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I've seen the NHS at its best - Labour must stop attacking it

I shall never forget Nuno, the Portuguese nurse who got me up and about when I’d been in bed for three days after a major operation, and caught...

21.10.2024 1

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Men really do peak in their forties – I should know

I was there at Tracey Emin’s 40th birthday party. It was held in a beach restaurant near her home in the South of France, and, man, how we drank...

17.10.2024 2

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The worst job in the world and why no one should ever take it

Which job, with a reported salary of around £100,000 a week, which gives you first-class travel to all corners of the globe, and which offers you...

15.10.2024 6

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Millionaires are fleeing the UK? Good riddance to them

Earlier this week, the Adam Smith Instititue – a right-wing think-tank with the motto: “Using free markets to create a richer, freer, happier...

11.10.2024 8

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Why Starmer is wrong to pay back £6,000 for freebies

Today is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, which is a time for hope and renewal, of customs and prayers which invoke the prospect of a benign...

03.10.2024 1

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The Substance was the worst two hours I've ever spent in the cinema

I am not, in general, a Tripadvisor kind of person, preferring to have my opinions untainted by the experiences of others. But, when it comes to...

01.10.2024 10

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Who trusts the nanny state? I do

It is one of Michael Gove’s predecessors as editor of The Spectator , Iain Macleod, himself also a one-time Conservative cabinet minister, who is...

27.09.2024 2

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A newspaper or an oat milk latte? There’s no contest

On the way to Euston station yesterday, I texted my daughter to ask if she could get me a Sunday newspaper to read on the train up to Manchester. A...

23.09.2024 2

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The real problem is that Keir Starmer is not paid enough

The Corrupt and Illegal Practices Act of 1883 is a very fine example of law making. Designed to make parliamentary elections fairer, more...

20.09.2024 1

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I have been taking Ozempic – and completely lost my taste for alcohol

I started taking Ozempic five weeks ago. I was fearful of the side effects, of which more later. But at my age, it becomes increasingly harder to...

17.09.2024 40

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Why men find it hard to make friends

Everything I know about morality and the friendship of men, I owe to golf. With apologies to Albert Camus – the novelist and part-time goalkeeper...

13.09.2024 3

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I’ve canceled my holiday because of climate change

We were really looking forward to our summer holiday on an island in the Med. For the more mature, middle-class market, sun, sea and sex have been...

20.08.2024 3

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For Elon Musk, it has all been leading up to this moment

Elon Musk will doubtless survey his global domain this morning and feel the rosy glow of self-satisfaction and vindication. Musk’s acquisition of...

13.08.2024 2

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