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For obvious reasons, stocks in ex-editors of The Spectator are experiencing an all-time low. But my own complaint is with…
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I’ve always been a Spectator reader, so I’m delighted to be writing a diary about the Olympics from Tokyo. My…
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The past week has seen another media splash about the self-exiled Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Following the recent ruckus…
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You always remember when a prime minister calls you to ask you to take on a new role, and you…
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The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee pageant was officially launched last week, with a splashy press call in the Raphael Court of…
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I’ve been amazed by the response to my decision to leave my band, Mumford & Sons. The article in which…
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It turns out that if there’s one thing more expensive than making theatre, it’s not making it. Empty buildings haemorrhage…
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I’ve always maintained I go to Fermanagh for sanity, and after the past few months, I need a return to…
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I’ve worked for some media thoroughbreds — including the Financial Times, ITN and CNN — so I know the sense…
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My diary has been filled with dental appointments, reflecting a truism that American dentists pray for British teeth. The tally…
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Following my abrupt departure from Good Morning Britain after declining to apologise for disbelieving Meghan ‘Princess Pinocchio’ Markle, I’ve been…
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In the New York Times, the celebrated journalist Maureen Dowd describes Crieff as ‘a sleepy town in Scotland’. Well. There…
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‘We humour them when they suggest absurd reforms, we placate them with small material comforts, but we heave sighs of…
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What would happen to the Republicans after Donald Trump? That has been one of the pundits’ favourite themes in the…
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By the time you read this you may know if the Tories triumphed in the Hartlepool by-election — or if,…
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I spent much of the 1980s and 1990s reporting on company chief executives who didn’t understand the distinction between mine…
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I have just had my second jab and it poses a dilemma. As an assiduous Covid rule-taker, I have been…
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The files arrived marked ‘STRICT EMBARGO’ and ‘CONFIDENTIAL’ and ‘FORTH BRIDGE REVISED’ and stamped with various crests and insignia. My…
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The last patient I treated was 105 years old. She has lived through two world wars, a depression and at…
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When I finally head back to church this weekend, after a year of Covid-avoidance, it is going to feel a…
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Spring Cannot Be Cancelled arrives on the doorstep. It is a gloriously illustrated book by Martin Gayford about his conversations…
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Piers Morgan may have been the UK equivalent of a TV shock-jock, but there’s another side to him. I’ve known…
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Safe spaces, diversity quotas, gender-neutral pronouns, culturally relative facts, heteronormative hegemony. Are my right-on credentials right on enough? Am I…
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Santa Monica is a soothing place to be locked down. I moved here from New York for four months in…
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Spring in Somerset — again. If someone had told me last February that I’d spend seven of the next 12…
