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Commentators have complained about this referendum — its ‘lies’, bad manners, bitterness. Without exactly disagreeing, I would nevertheless argue that…
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The Remain campaign takes as its model the ‘No’ one in the 2014 Scottish referendum. First and last — hence…
The Spectator’s Notes
The Remain campaign takes as its model the ‘No’ one in the 2014 Scottish referendum. First and last — hence…
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One of the most influential and learned figures in the British European debate is Rodney Leach. In the 1990s, he…
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One of the most influential and learned figures in the British European debate is Rodney Leach. In the 1990s, he…
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‘No one can seriously deny that European integration brought an end to Franco-German conflict and has settled the German question…
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‘No one can seriously deny that European integration brought an end to Franco-German conflict and has settled the German question…
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Obviously there is no such thing as ‘Cameronism’, as there is ‘Thatcherism’; but once upon a time, David Cameron did…
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Obviously there is no such thing as ‘Cameronism’, as there is ‘Thatcherism’; but once upon a time, David Cameron did…
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One of the many problems with David Cameron’s threat that leaving the European Union could plunge us into war is…
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One of the many problems with David Cameron’s threat that leaving the European Union could plunge us into war is…
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The comparison between the referendum questions — that asked in 1975 and the one which we shall be asked on 23…
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The comparison between the referendum questions — that asked in 1975 and the one which we shall be asked on 23…
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‘England in effect is insular, she is maritime, she is linked through her interactions, her markets and her supply lines…
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‘England in effect is insular, she is maritime, she is linked through her interactions, her markets and her supply lines…
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The ‘remain’ campaign is having some success with the line that the ‘leave’ camp cannot say what Britain outside the…
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The ‘remain’ campaign is having some success with the line that the ‘leave’ camp cannot say what Britain outside the…
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I don’t think there is a Royal College of Public Relations, but if there were, it should teach a course…
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However wicked tax evasion is and however distasteful some tax avoidance may be, people should imagine a world without tax…
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However wicked tax evasion is and however distasteful some tax avoidance may be, people should imagine a world without tax…
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You might expect that the murder of Christians would excite particular horror in countries of Christian heritage. Yet almost the…
Witness to the truth
George Bell (1883–1958) was, in many respects, a typical Anglican prelate of his era. He went to Westminster and Christ…
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You might expect that the murder of Christians would excite particular horror in countries of Christian heritage. Yet almost the…
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Why have David Cameron and George Osborne overreached? Why are so many in their own party no longer disposed to…




























