‘The Spectator has, since its founding in 1828, always stood on the side of free expression and thought. Without those freedoms, civilized society will quickly fall apart.’
I was expelled from the Electoral College before I was even admitted
Wayward electors run in our family
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How many Democrats have made it to the first primary in the last 40 years?
Back in 2016, only three Democrats made it to Iowa
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We’re all high-schoolers now
In the age of social media, we have the largest mobs in the history of mankind
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The rise of cancel chic
Liberal journalists are so desperate to be canceled they’ve begun to form secret societies around the theme
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How will post-Brexit Britain find its way in the world?
Those who believe Britain can only trade effectively with the nearest markets know little history
By Robert Tombs
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How far will Trump go in Iran?
The Tehran students were chanting in the streets: ‘Our enemy is right here, they’re lying that it’s America’
By Paul Wood
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After Brexit
A US-Britain trade deal would be a boon for Boris Johnson and Donald Trump
By Ross Clark
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The mob and me: my life in the crosshairs
Bars that served me were harassed and ‘Hate Has No Home Here’ signs appeared on my lawn
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The left’s real cause is muzzling its opponents
The kind of people who want to cancel someone are looking not for an apology, but for vengeance
By Amber Duke
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French disconnection: how Emmanuel Macron went from savior to failure
Macron needs help and his new best friend, bizarrely, is Britain’s prime minister
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Donald Trump, president of peace
The emotional anti-war right is susceptible to its own wishful thinking about the irenic intentions of Iran
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So you’ve been canceled. Here’s how to fight back
Let’s make 2020 the year cancel culture gets canceled
By Toby Young
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Defend your friends
The silence of decent people allows the bullies to get away with it
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Tyranny of the minority
Cancel culture is real. It destroys lives, ruins careers, causes suicide and silences reasonable debate
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Books + Arts
The TV show that rots young minds
Euphoria is doing for young people’s morality what British Bomber Command and the USAAF did for the architecture of Dresden
By Taki
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Who is he?
The guitarist and songwriter Pete Townshend talks to Sam Leith about madness, sleep bubbles and his new novel
By Sam Leith
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Finding the Lost Girls
D.J. Taylor tracks down the proofreaders and heartbreakers who were the toast of Blitz-era London
By D.J. Taylor
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The prophetic Raymond Chandler
Chandler’s California is a cultural desert stretching along the western edge of a continental wasteland
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Wells farrago: gaslighting the Invisible Man
Priapic shower-stalking and domestic haunting were never Wells’s style – not on the page, anyway
By Will Lloyd
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The way we read now
The thrill is gone for lovers of fiction. Joseph Bottum on the strange death of the novel
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Land of hope and Victoria: The Kinks’ lost empire
By 1969, Churchill was dead and the Kinks, as an album group, were toast
By Luke Haines
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J’accuse…!
The banning of Roman Polanski’s film about the Dreyfus affair is history repeating itself
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‘I aspire to write for posterity’
Tom Stoppard talks about inspiration, growing older and his new play, Leopoldstadt
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The Italian job
A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism by Caroline Moorehead reviewed
By Clare Mulley
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Winter wonderland
The Frozen River: Seeking Silence in the Himalaya by James Crowden reviewed
By Mark Cocker
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‘A system at odds with the Constitution’
A conversation with Christopher Caldwell about America today
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Roger Scruton: a year in which much was lost – but more gained
Despite everything, I have so much to be grateful for
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Comedy in the era of Twitter outrage: An interview with Ricky Gervais
The comedian on why he will never apologize for his jokes
By Andrew Doyle
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Life
The evolution of Vermont
I’ve wintered here all my life and during that time Vermont has, like old Digby’s marital status, seen three permutations
By Digby Dent
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Palermo without borders
At first glimpse there appears to be no serious backlash against incomers
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Cape of many colors
Some call Chatham slightly precious, too sure of its own perfection. They have a point
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Speed-dating in Portland with Godfrey Elfwick
If you have a ‘type’ when it comes to matters of the heart, then your narrow-mindedness sickens me
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The Democrats shouldn’t nominate some outlier candidate on a gamble
The British election of 2019 offers them an obvious warning
By David Frum
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Generation Gender Reveal — the weirdest fad of the 2010s
In the vacuous, conservative world of Instagram, it’s just easier to accept that the color pink is shorthand for femininity
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Food and Drink
Let’s eat: Israeli cuisine is coming of age
Hummus is the cement of the Levant and claimed, like the land, by both Israelis and Palestinians
By Josh Glancy
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The conservative case for opposing ‘ag-gag’ laws
Animals deserve to be treated well in life and that consumers deserve to know how animals are treated
By Ben Sixsmith
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