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Rio de Janeiro When I first began writing about politics in 2005, my Brazilian husband, David Miranda, was…
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After the shale gas vote, I was literally sent to Coventry – to visit the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre. It…
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It’s been a great week for the powerful fantasies of fiction (see more below), but over the weekend no novel…
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I was interested to see that amid the Byzantine intrigues of embattled Conservative panjandrums, two Spice Girls have criticised the…
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In Singapore last week, I was asked: do ministers just come in, reach for the dumbest available policy and go…
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Moscow A week of somewhat mixed messages from the Kremlin. One day Vladimir Putin opened Europe’s largest Ferris wheel…
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When the Queen died, I was on my way to Kyiv. My mind focused on the war in Ukraine, I…
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I am completely and utterly devastated by the passing of our wonderful, inspirational Queen, as I’m sure are so many…
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Liz Truss doesn’t waste energy on unnecessary emotion. At the announcement of her victory at the QE2 Centre, she ditched…
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You wait 11 years for a Tory leadership election and then three come along in quick succession. The first in…
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She’ll never do it. She’d have to be mad. Why take the risk? That’s what everyone said when I announced…
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I love Suffolk, not just for its beauty but for the stories to be found all around me. Every day…
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We left prepared. Bottles of water, protein snacks, phone chargers, portable Scrabble (even the teenagers can look at the internet…
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The Season has ended and – apart from The Spectator’s summer bash of course – the two bang-up parties of…
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Two and a half years ago I joined the Tory party to vote for Boris, then unjoined as soon as…
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When I was a teenage Tory activist in the mid-1990s, I hoped one day I’d be part of a leadership…
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‘So what did he say?’ I asked the ministerial friend who went to tell Boris last week he had to…
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It feels like the end, but we’ve been here before. The past months of Boris Johnson’s teetering administration have felt…
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I made it through the airport crush to Berlin at the beginning of last week to see how Germany is…
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In 1977, when I set up the South Bank Show for ITV, I wanted Paul McCartney to be on the…
