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The Spectator

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The most influential magazine in Britain, covering politics, world affairs, culture, lifestyle, news, comment and analysis.

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Burnham’s bill: Tim Shipman says the new PM can’t afford to please everyone 🔸 Douglas Murray: The hijacking of Ann Widdecombe’s death 🔸 Count Binface: The Odyssey is a classic 🔸 Sasha Swire: My run-in with Hugh Grant 🔸 Margaret Mitchell: Nuns are so hot right now Magazine
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“I see in people’s eyes there’s a sense of real desperation, we can’t take it anymore”. Republican California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton tells Freddy Gray why he believes incumbent Governor Gavin Newsom has made California the ”worst-performing state” on everything
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Steve Hilton: how this Trump-backed Brit plans to take on California's Democratic 'machine'
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On today's Coffee House Shots podcast: Rachel Reeves has delivered what is likely to be her valedictory Mansion House speech, defending her record on growth, borrowing and the public finances. But with businesses counting the cost of higher employers' National Insurance and
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Andy Burnham's new head of political strategy is a trustee of a charity that campaigns to repatriate Isis brides and abolish citizenship stripping, The Spectator can reveal. Matthew McGregor was today announced as one of the latest additions to Burnham's incoming top team in
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Oh dear. Liz Truss's CPAC Great Britain bonanza does not appear to have got off to quite the flying start she envisaged. Images from the InterContinental London – The O2, along with testimony from those inside, suggest the conservative jamboree is proving rather less Reagan and
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Just when you thought you couldn't dislike Sir Keir Starmer any more, he has gone and awarded Sir Sadiq Khan a peerage. The London Mayor is among 26 new members of the House of Lords announced by No. 10 as the Prime Minister prepares to leave the building. The move paves the way
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“What you’re up against is the Bay Area aristocracy”. After 16 years of Democratic rule in California, Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton says he's taking on the political "machine" that is California’s elite. Speaking to Freddy Gray, he explains the challenge of
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Watch the full episode of Americano here |
Steve Hilton: how this Trump-backed Brit plans to take on California's Democratic 'machine'
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France's National Assembly passed a bill on Wednesday granting terminally ill adults the right to end their lives with medical assistance. The assisted dying bill (droit à l'aide à mourir) was backed by 291 MPs with 241 against. It is the fourth time the text has been approved
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Sir Keir Starmer has officially backed Spain to beat the Argies in Sunday's World Cup final. A spokeswoman for the Prime Minister said he wishes both teams 'well' – but 'especially Spain'. She was also at pains to point out that 'the World Cup might not be ours, but the Falkland
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Here in America, while not a household name, Ann Widdecombe was not completely obscure. Not because she spent much time courting American audiences, but because she focused on things that hit close to home for those of us engaged in defending western civilisation. She talked
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For one thing, the human rights establishment's attitude to the ECHR is rather like Humpty Dumpty's approach towards the English language in Through the Looking-Glass. They primly refer to the Convention as a 'living instrument': meaning they reserve the right to make words mean
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He stops the blockade, he starts the blockade. He announces a new 20 percent Hormuz Strait toll to be paid to the US, then drops it the next day and goes back to talking about trade deals. It's the same playbook as the worldwide tariffs last year, and in fact we see it in
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Zia Yusuf gave a speech yesterday on the security of MPs, in which he accused several politicians of inciting violence against Ann Widdecombe through their words. He said we should not be surprised, given such 'reckless rhetoric' against Reform, that people could be moved to
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Lewisham's Green council plans to officially collaborate with a group which seeks to 'resist raids' on illegal migrants 'at all costs', and has posted on its Instagram an illustration of a Home Office immigration enforcement van set on fire with its windows smashed. At next