Portrait of the Week
Home The government seemed to be taken strangely unaware by the frenzy of recrimination that came its way when results…
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Pink and twisted Bernard Matthews, which stopped making Turkey Twizzlers in 2005 after criticism about unhealthy school dinners from Jamie…
Exam failures
It was obvious that closing schools would hit the poorest hardest, inflicting permanent damage and deepening inequality. While many private…
Portrait of the week
Home In fine weather with calm seas, 565 migrants in four days crossed the Channel in small craft. French officials…
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Some like it hot Are heatwaves becoming a devalued currency? Last year the Met Office defined a heatwave as three…
Solution to 2467: Girl Talk
The unclued lights, 3/34, 12/31, 26/1A/33, 35/9, 39 and 18 PEAKE (an anagram of the red highlighted letters), are six…
Letters
The future of offices Sir: I agree with much of Gerard Lyons’s article about the future of the capital (‘London…
Mood shift
Throughout the past few months the government has appeared to face an unenviable choice between saving lives and saving livelihoods.…
Portrait of the week
Home Some 2.7 million people in Greater Manchester and parts of Lancashire and West Yorkshire, where many Muslims live, were…
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Peer review Sir: A neat solution to the levels of inactivity of some members of the House of Lords (‘Peer…
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The other Argos The Argos catalogue, known as the ‘Book of Dreams’, is no longer to appear in printed form.…
To 2466: Gender bender
The author was GEORGE SAND (19/26), whose original name was AMANTINE LUCILE AURORE DUPIN (25/40/5/16). The perimetric works are INDIANA,…
Peer pressure
It is no credit to British democracy that we have the second largest legislative chamber in the world. The only…
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Masking the truth Sir: Matthew Parris is right to laud the importance of embracing the scientific method (‘Why should opinion…
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The first nanny state The Prime Minister’s strategy on obesity has been labelled a work of the ‘nanny state’ —…
Portrait of the week
Home At a few hours’ notice, the government removed Spain from the list of countries from which it was possible…
Solution to 2465: Definitely amusing
Unclued lights are Brewer’s ‘Chambersisms’ — words from that dictionary with quirky definitions. First prize Maureen Quarmby, Oldham Runners-up M.…
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Left-behind boys Sir: Christopher Snowdon’s perceptive and informative article (‘The lost boys’, 18 July) reflects perfectly my own experiences in…
The EU’s new fault lines
Anyone who imagined that the departure of Britain would make for more harmonious EU summits in future will have been…
Solution to 2464: TOPSY-TURVY
14 Down, TAPSALTEERIE, yields TAP 10, 15 and 35, three anagrams of SALTE (16, 32 and 36) and ERIE and…
Portrait of the Week
Home A coronavirus vaccine developed by the University of Oxford, tested on 1,077 people, was found to induce antibodies and…
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Worth a shot? How worried should we be about people refusing to have a Covid-19 vaccine if one is developed?…
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Growing pains Sir: James Forsyth (‘Rewiring the state’, 4 July) shocked this loyal Spectator reader with the following: ‘Even before…
The mask slips
When Michael Gove delivered the Ditchley Annual Lecture last month he spoke about why citizens feel that the political system…
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Home New regulations would compel people to wear a face covering in shops in England from 24 July on pain…
