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George Clooney raged at MSNBC producer after Morning Joe’s take on his Biden op-ed: book

The Independent 04 Apr 2025
Clooney reportedly yelled at the MSNBC producer over the phone for several hours .
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The Pinochet affair: the pursuit of a Chilean dictator

The Spectator 03 Apr 2025
This book is mainly about the international row that broke out between 1998 and 2000 when Pinochet, by then retired, visited London for a medical operation and a Spanish judge applied to have him extradited for trial in Spain ... Ed West.
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The last of the great salonnières

The Spectator 03 Apr 2025
But she was best known as a salonnière ... Ed West ... The problem with Oxfam Books ... Harriet Cullen, her daughter, who has based much of this book on her mother’s diaries and letters, has divided it into sections that make the chronology sometimes confusing ... .
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Tony Benn, bogeyman to some, beacon of hope and light to many

The Spectator 03 Apr 2025
Regardless of whether these goals are achieved, the book unquestionably serves to remind us that ‘the most dangerous man in Britain’ (Kingsley Amis, February 1974) ... Ed West ... The problem with Oxfam Books.
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Why the restaurant world hates beer drinkers

The Spectator 03 Apr 2025
So it didn’t surprise me to discover a brilliant business idea in a book about the restaurant trade. In Unreasonable Hospitality ... But Guidara isn’t interested in these ... Most popular. Matthew Lynn ... Ed West ... Alexander Larman. The problem with Oxfam Books ... .
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Satire and settled scores: Universality by Natasha Brown reviewed

The Spectator 03 Apr 2025
Ed West ... The problem with Oxfam Books ... that implicates a banker as well as a shit-stirring columnist, Miriam Leonard, known as Lenny, the author of a book called No Mo’ Woke, ‘still a popular hashtag’.
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The C of E’s tragic misuse of its sacred spaces

The Spectator 03 Apr 2025
I am a priest in the high church tradition of the Church of England. The technical term is Anglo-Catholicism, but I come from a very different Christian background ... Most popular. Matthew Lynn ... Ed West ... Alexander Larman. The problem with Oxfam Books ... .
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Dear Mary: What is the etiquette of unfollowing someone on Instagram?

The Spectator 03 Apr 2025
Q ...R.R., London W6 Most popular. Matthew Lynn. The minimum wage is too high. Ed West. What really scares people about Adolescence. Alexander Larman. The problem with Oxfam Books. A ... However, it is naff and New Yorky to provide potted bios or even a list ... Q ... .
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How fun is it being part of an Amazonian tribe? 

The Spectator 03 Apr 2025
Tribe with Bruce Parry ran for three fondly remembered series in the mid-2000s ... Sunday’s episode featured some other age-old practices, too ... Most popular. Matthew Lynn. The minimum wage is too high. Ed West ... Alexander Larman. The problem with Oxfam Books ... .
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My manifesto for the next Archbishop of Canterbury

The Spectator 03 Apr 2025
When I told a Westminster political editor that my novel NUNC! was about the prophet Simeon and the Nunc Dimittis, he said ... More blank looks. It is startling how scriptural knowledge has faded ... Most popular ... Ed West ... The problem with Oxfam Books ... .
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Am I making a mountain out of my mole?

The Spectator 03 Apr 2025
Hypochondriacs are never happy because we know that eventually all of us are vindicated. As Spike Milligan said on his gravestone. ‘I told you I was ill.’ In fact, he had it engraved in Irish ... Most popular ... Ed West ... The problem with Oxfam Books ... .
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Poor little rich girl: the extraordinary life of Yoko Ono

The Spectator 03 Apr 2025
David Sheff first met Yoko Ono in 1980 when Playboy commissioned him, then aged 24, to interview her and John Lennon ... (Elton John, a friend of theirs, wrote an excellent spoof ... On 8 December John was shot ... Ed West ... The problem with Oxfam Books ... .
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The Da Vinci world of known unknowns

The Spectator 03 Apr 2025
When Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Salvator Mundi’ was sold in 2017 for $450 million it caused a sensation ... Newspapers – goggle-eyed at the price – hailed the discovery of a ‘lost’ Leonardo ... And it was ... We can’t get enough ... Ed West ... The problem with Oxfam Books ... .
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The liberating force of musical modernism 

The Spectator 03 Apr 2025
It’s Arvo Part’s 90th birthday year, which is good news if you like your minimalism glum, low and very, very slow. Lots of people seem to ... the dissident composer in Soviet-controlled Estonia ... Matthew Lynn ... Ed West ... The problem with Oxfam Books ... .
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The National Trust's plans for Clandon Park are a travesty

The Spectator 03 Apr 2025
In April 2015, a fire raged through Clandon Park, destroying much of the 18th-century Palladian mansion’s prized interiors ... Last month, Guildford Council waved through the plans unanimously ... Most popular ... Ed West ... The problem with Oxfam Books ... .
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