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Here is a thought for all those Tory MPs calculating their personal advantage in the forthcoming EU referendum: unless the…
The Spectator’s notes
Here is a thought for all those Tory MPs calculating their personal advantage in the forthcoming EU referendum: unless the…
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In 2000, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, accused Magdalen College, Oxford, of class bias in failing to…
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In 2000, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, accused Magdalen College, Oxford, of class bias in failing to…
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Many have rightly attacked the police for their handling of the demented accusations against Field Marshal Lord Bramall, now at…
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Many have rightly attacked the police for their handling of the demented accusations against Field Marshal Lord Bramall, now at…
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No amount of reports in the press that Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet-making is farcical and his party is divided should…
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No amount of reports in the press that Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet-making is farcical and his party is divided should…
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At the end of next week, a judge will decide whether the ‘trial of the facts’ can proceed now that…
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At the end of next week, a judge will decide whether the ‘trial of the facts’ can proceed now that…
‘All he did done perfectly’
In memory of my Irish hunter Tommy, who died last month
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Speaking on the Today programme on Monday, Sir David Attenborough, who wants a global agreement to control carbon emissions, pointed…
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Because, it says, of its ‘liberal values and respect for human dignity’, the Economist has put out a film about…
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When Jeremy Corbyn says it is better to bring people to trial than to shoot them, he is right. So…
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When Jeremy Corbyn says it is better to bring people to trial than to shoot them, he is right. So…
Charles Moore’s Notes: Who’d be a diplomat now?
The other day, a friend told me, he had been chatting to an old friend of his who has spent…
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It is good to learn that the current management of the V&A want to reverse their predecessors’ lack of interest…
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It is good to learn that the current management of the V&A want to reverse their predecessors’ lack of interest…
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An enjoyable aspect of parliamentary rules and conventions is that almost no one understands them. This has become acutely true…
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An enjoyable aspect of parliamentary rules and conventions is that almost no one understands them. This has become acutely true…
Charles Moore’s Notes: If we want to save the elephant, we must legalise the ivory trade
How good a deal for Britain is it that the president of China got a state visit and a nuclear…
Charles Moore’s Notes: If we want to save the elephant, we must legalise the ivory trade
How good a deal for Britain is it that the president of China got a state visit and a nuclear…






























