The Spectator’s Notes
The Spectator’s Notes
Like almost everyone else, I have no idea whether the accusations about paedophilia in Parliament in the 1980s are true.…
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‘A culture changes by example and a licentious old man being found guilty will help do that,’ says a leader…
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Radek Sikorski, the Polish foreign minister, is undoubtedly one of the most dashing figures on the world stage. I first…
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On Friday night, I went to Althorp, childhood home of Diana, Princess of Wales, to speak at its literary festival.…
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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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I write this before the results of the European elections, making the not very original guess that Ukip will do…
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David Cameron is said to want a woman to be chairman of the BBC Trust, now that Chris Patten has…
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Not long after the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich last summer, I wrote a piece in the Daily…
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The conviction of Max Clifford for indecent assaults feels like a vindication of the jury system, as did the acquittal…
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‘Twenty-six million people in Europe are looking for work. And whose jobs are they after?’ asks the Ukip poster for…
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‘Show, don’t tell’ is the mantra of PR advisers when telling public figures how to communicate. Pope Francis’s technique does…
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Maria Miller’s forced resignation is a disgrace. No iniquity was proved against her. Over her expenses, I suspect her motive…
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The Daily Telegraph’s revelation last Friday that the Financial Conduct Authority was going to arraign companies for 30 years of…
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Everyone can see that the West has no idea what to do about Russian power in the Ukraine. Britain, in…
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Thirty years ago this Saturday, I became editor of this magazine. In the same month, the miners’ strike began, Anthony…
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People seem bewildered that the National Council for Civil Liberties in the late 1970s gave house-room to the Paedophile Information…
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It is 15 years since the publication of the Macpherson Report into the investigation of the death of Stephen Lawrence.…
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Those of us who want a referendum on the European Union need to be cautious in our approach to the…
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Last week, David Cameron said that we have ‘seven months to save the most extraordinary country in history’. He meant…
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The accusation that the Tories have been installing their people in public appointments should evoke only a hollow laugh. They…
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Our neighbour Philip Merricks is a farmer on Romney Marsh, 90 per cent of whose land is below sea level.…
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Now that the economic statistics are looking better, people are beginning to rediscover the once-fashionable thought that George Osborne is…
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When I interviewed Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, the former president of France, for my biography of Margaret Thatcher, I asked him…
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Who owns Scotland? The people who most commonly ask this question believe that the land has been wrested from ordinary…
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In Dublin, where I am writing this column, people are watching the Scottish referendum campaign more closely than in London.…
