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Pot plants A 65-year-old Devon woman rang a BBC gardening show to enquire about a mystery plant only to be told…
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The age of rage
In his short and infrequent visits to Scotland this year, the Prime Minister should have found time to speak to…
Portrait of the week
Home People living in Scotland voted in a referendum that asked: ‘Should Scotland be an independent country?’ A great deal…
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Draconian sentence Paralympian athlete Oscar Pistorius was cleared of murder but convicted of culpable homicide, the equivalent of manslaughter in English law.…
From the archives
From ‘A review of the war’, The Spectator, 19 September 1914: It is the duty of all English publicists to make…
Letters
Breaking the unions Sir: By the time this letter appears we shall know whether the land of my birth has…
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