North Korea
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Home British negotiators are prepared to pay up to £36 billion to the EU to settle the so-called divorce bill…
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Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, made a speech in the British Museum warning of war if Britain left the…
The Spectator’s notes
One of the many problems with David Cameron’s threat that leaving the European Union could plunge us into war is…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said that if Britain left the European Union, France could stop allowing British officials…
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Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, decided to allow ministers to campaign for either side in the referendum on membership…
Moving statues
Sculptural topplings provide an index of changing times, says Martin Gayford
Hubris made the 20th century the bloodiest in history
Sir Alistair Horne, like that other great knight of military history, Sir Michael Howard, served in the Coldstream Guards during…
Portrait of the week
Home The Metropolitan Police encouraged people to celebrate VJ Day despite reports in the Mail on Sunday (picked up from…
Booked for a world tour
One day in 2011, while perusing her bookshelves, Ann Morgan realised her reading habits were (to her surprise) somewhat parochial.…
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Home The government spent days announcing how the Autumn Statement would allocate funds. ‘Frontline’ parts of the National Health Service…
The Spectator’s Notes
Who owns Scotland? The people who most commonly ask this question believe that the land has been wrested from ordinary…
The new persecution
It’s time the world paid more attention to assaults against Christians
