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28 May 2015 1:00 pm

Amnesty International and others have placed a large newspaper advertisement telling Michael Gove ‘Don’t Scrap Our Human Rights’. The ad…

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23 May 2015 9:00 am

Who benefits from Prince Charles’s handshake with Gerry Adams? Not the victims of IRA violence, including the 18 soldiers who…

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21 May 2015 1:00 pm

Who benefits from Prince Charles’s handshake with Gerry Adams? Not the victims of IRA violence, including the 18 soldiers who…

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16 May 2015 9:00 am

David Cameron is taking a bit of trouble to unite his parliamentary party. Having built a coalition outside it last…

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14 May 2015 1:00 pm

David Cameron is taking a bit of trouble to unite his parliamentary party. Having built a coalition outside it last…

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13 December 2014 9:00 am

Pope Francis is favourably compared to Pope Benedict in the media. I hope it is not being slavishly papist to…

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11 December 2014 3:00 pm

Pope Francis is favourably compared to Pope Benedict in the media. I hope it is not being slavishly papist to…

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7 August 2014 1:00 pm

Listen http://traffic.libsyn.com/spectator/TheViewFrom22_07_August_2014_v4.mp3 At the impressive Westminster Abbey vigil to mark the centenary of the first world war on Monday night,…

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2 August 2014 9:00 am

This week’s issue is dated 2 August. On that date 100 years ago, my great-grandfather, Norman Moore (always known as…

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31 July 2014 1:00 pm

This week’s issue is dated 2 August. On that date 100 years ago, my great-grandfather, Norman Moore (always known as…

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26 July 2014 9:00 am

Peter Clarke’s powerful report on the Trojan Horse affair in Birmingham schools is confirmation of the weakness of David Cameron…

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24 July 2014 1:00 pm

Peter Clarke’s powerful report on the Trojan Horse affair in Birmingham schools is confirmation of the weakness of David Cameron…

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19 July 2014 9:00 am

This must be the worst reshuffle since Mrs Thatcher demoted Geoffrey Howe in 1989. Unlike that one, its errors are…

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17 July 2014 1:00 pm

Listen http://traffic.libsyn.com/spectator/TheViewFrom22_17_July_2014_v4.mp3 This must be the worst reshuffle since Mrs Thatcher demoted Geoffrey Howe in 1989. Unlike that one, its…

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12 July 2014 9:00 am

Like almost everyone else, I have no idea whether the accusations about paedophilia in Parliament in the 1980s are true.…

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5 July 2014 9:00 am

‘A culture changes by example and a licentious old man being found guilty will help do that,’ says a leader…

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28 June 2014 9:00 am

Radek Sikorski, the Polish foreign minister, is undoubtedly one of the most dashing figures on the world stage. I first…

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21 June 2014 8:00 am

On Friday night, I went to Althorp, childhood home of Diana, Princess of Wales, to speak at its literary festival.…

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7 June 2014 9:00 am

David Cameron is surely right to think that Jean-Claude Juncker is not the man to relieve the European Union’s woes,…

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24 May 2014 9:00 am

I write this before the results of the European elections, making the not very original guess that Ukip will do…

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17 May 2014 9:00 am

David Cameron is said to want a woman to be chairman of the BBC Trust, now that Chris Patten has…

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10 May 2014 9:00 am

Not long after the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich last summer, I wrote a piece in the Daily…

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3 May 2014 9:00 am

The conviction of Max Clifford for indecent assaults feels like a vindication of the jury system, as did the acquittal…

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26 April 2014 9:00 am

‘Twenty-six million people in Europe are looking for work. And whose jobs are they after?’ asks the Ukip poster for…