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School portraits

Set in 220 acres of beautiful countryside between Harrogate and York, Queen Ethelburga’s College is an award-winning day and boarding school that...

14.03.2024 4

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What the Royals must learn from Kate’s photo blunder

As an object lesson in how to feed conspiracy theorists while trying to see them off, the Princess of Wales’ Mothers’ Day photograph of herself...

13.03.2024 2

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Wanted: a broadcast producer for The Spectator

We’re looking for a new producer to join The Spectator’s broadcast team. You would be one of four on the broadcast team and one of only 30...

19.12.2023 5

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Bloated / Britain’s welfare system is out of control

To grasp the scale of Britain’s welfare crisis, consider some of the changes announced by the government this week. There will be tighter...

23.11.2023 7

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Full text / The Supreme Court ruling that the Rwanda plan is unlawful

The Supreme Court has ruled that the government’s plan to send migrants to Rwanda is unlawful. Below is the full judgment from the court, setting...

15.11.2023 6

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Books / Books of the year II: more choices of reading in 2023

In Ways of Life (Jonathan Cape, £30), Laura Freeman channels the spirit of the art critic and collector Jim Ede. She traces the origins of Kettle’s...

15.11.2023 50

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Suella Braverman sacked as Rishi Sunak reshuffles his cabinet

Suella Braverman has been sacked as Home Secretary. The Prime Minister dismissed Braverman following controversy over comments she made about the...

13.11.2023 10

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Books / Books of the year I: a choice of reading in 2023

Something old made new: The Iliad in Emily Wilson’s muscular and moving new translation, the first by a woman, is truly what it claims to be – a...

07.11.2023 3

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Introducing The Spectator’s WhatsApp channel

The Spectator may be the oldest magazine in the world, but we pride ourselves in keeping our readers up to date. In that spirit, we’ve just launched...

24.10.2023 4

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‘I am 35,000 feet above Beirut, and I am smoking a fag’: Spectator writers recall their favourite cigarettes

The next generation will never be allowed to buy cigarettes. So we asked some of our writers for their favourite moment with a fag. One of the last...

06.10.2023 5

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The case against exam reform

The history of education reform is a graveyard of acronyms: TVEIs, GNVQs and so on. There have been many well-meaning initiatives that made sense at...

04.10.2023 2

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Letters / Letters: Bully XL owners are deluding themselves

Sir: Cindy Yu asks, in her ‘Leaving Hong Kong’ piece (23 September): ‘Where are they?’ I can help with that one. I live near Epsom, Surrey,...

28.09.2023 2

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Barometer / Why is HS2 so expensive?

Unusually, the Conservatives are holding their party conference before the Labour party. It has become tradition that the Lib Dems hold theirs one...

28.09.2023 5

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What if David Cameron had been offered EU ‘associate membership’ in 2016?

It can’t be coincidence that led Olaf Scholz and Emmanuel Macron to unveil their proposals for a new class of associate membership of the EU while...

20.09.2023 7

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US politics / Republicans will regret impeaching Joe Biden

As Napoleon is reputed to have said, never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. So why are Republicans seeking to impeach Joe Biden when...

15.09.2023 8

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