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I’ll never holiday again. I couldn’t be happier

The Spectator 26 Mar 2025
Waking up to hear the ‘unprecedented’ news about Heathrow Airport, I felt a nanosecond of luxurious relaxation (albeit I’m not exactly over the moon about being in a hospital bed without the use of my legs) ... Most popular. Gareth Roberts ... Freddy Gray ... .
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Falling inflation may have rescued Rachel Reeves

The Spectator 26 Mar 2025
Clothing retailers have saved Rachel Reeves from having to go naked into the debating chamber ... Most popular. Julie Burchill. I’ll never holiday again. I couldn’t be happier. Ross Clark ... Gareth Roberts. Paddington Bear and the new idolatry ... REGISTER ... ×. .
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Why we still love Pizza Express

The Spectator 26 Mar 2025
How’s this for a bargain? A Pizza Express margherita for only 33p, if you dine in and order between 5 and 6 p.m. tomorrow, to celebrate 60 years of the chain ... I love Pizza Express ... Most popular. Gareth Roberts. Stormzy isn’t cool. Freddy Gray ... Ben Domenech.
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Paddington Bear and the new idolitory

The Spectator 26 Mar 2025
Is nothing sacred? Not quite, as it turns out. There remains one last object of piety in these, the early days of the third Christian millennium (don’t laugh). Surprisingly, it is a fictional bear from darkest Peru ... Most popular. Gareth Roberts ... Vance is.
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How Paddington took over the justice system

The Spectator 25 Mar 2025
Two RAF engineers were spared jail today, after pleading guilty to vandalising a statue of Paddington Bear in the Berkshire town of Newbury ... Freddy Gray. What Team Trump’s group chat error really revealed. Gareth Roberts. Stormzy isn’t cool ... REGISTER ... .
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The Lower Thames Crossing and the failure of the British state

The Spectator 25 Mar 2025
The idea of a ‘Lower Thames Crossing’ was first mentioned in Parliament 36 years ago. Fourteen years ago, the government made building it a ‘national priority’. Yet the Lower Thames Crossing only received planning permission today ... Gareth Roberts ... .
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The ‘Islamophobia’ working group is unbalanced and opaque

The Spectator 25 Mar 2025
Membership of Angela Rayner’s new ‘Islamophobia’ working group has been announced ... Islamophobia, the definition claimed, was a ‘type of racism’. Most popular. Freddy Gray. What Team Trump’s group chat error really revealed ... Gareth Roberts ... REGISTER ... .
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Survival of the hottest: evolution’s fun side has been long overlooked

The Spectator 20 Mar 2025
The theory of evolution is dominated by the utilitarian logic of natural selection. adapt or die, survival of the fittest. But consider that ‘fit’ has two meanings these days. ‘healthy’ but also ‘hot’ ... Most popular. Gareth Roberts. Stormzy isn’t cool ... .
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Does China have Vatican City in its sights?

The Spectator 20 Mar 2025
Last Sunday the Vatican released the first photograph of Pope Francis since his ordeal began. He was wearing a stole around his neck, indicating that he had concelebrated mass in the chapel of the Gemelli hospital ... Most popular. Gareth Roberts ... .
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If 'wokeness' is over, can someone tell the Fitzwilliam Museum?

The Spectator 20 Mar 2025
Optimists believe that the tide of ‘wokeness’ is now ebbing ... Rise Up. Resistance, Revolution, Abolition ... If all this makes its founding benefactor Viscount Fitzwilliam turn in his grave, all the better ... Most popular. Freddy Gray ... Toby Young ... Gareth Roberts.
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Can the social contract survive in Britain?

The Spectator 19 Mar 2025
In the vestry of the church where my father was priest, there was a large wall-mounted plaque commemorating some long-dead worthy of the eighteenth century ... Most popular. Gus Carter. Pensioners, it’s your turn to cough up. James Snell ... Gareth Roberts ... .
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Will Kemi’s anti-net zero campaign bother Labour?

The Spectator 18 Mar 2025
The people’s republic of Holborn and St Pancras is not exactly fertile Tory territory. But it was in a swanky office in Keir Starmer’s north London patch where Kemi Badenoch chose to make her big energy speech this morning ... Gareth Roberts ... REGISTER ... .
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Elon Musk is wrong about Radio Free Europe

The Spectator 18 Mar 2025
Musk claims RFE/RL is run by ‘radical left crazy people talking to themselves while torching $1 billion a year of US taxpayer money’. But that is an ignorant distortion of the truth ... Most popular. Gus Carter ... Gareth Roberts. The plight of James O’Brien ... .
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Starmer is taking a big gamble with his welfare cuts

The Spectator 18 Mar 2025
That the welfare bill needs bringing under control is pretty undeniable ... Yet there is still a risk that this could all go horribly wrong for the government ... Most popular. Gareth Roberts. The plight of James O’Brien. Julie Burchill ... Jonathan Sacerdoti ... .
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Trump is giving Putin the opportunity to play nice

The Spectator 18 Mar 2025
Almost exactly seven years ago, on Monday 19 March 2018, Donald Trump decided he wanted to telephone Vladimir Putin to congratulate the Russian president on his re-election ... The first said, in capitals ... Gareth Roberts. The plight of James O’Brien ... .

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