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The real shock of the Tory reshuffle ✍️ James Heale spectator.co.uk/article/the-re…

spectator's tweet card. Kemi Badenoch has saved the biggest news of the Tory reshuffle for last. This morning, the headlines were dominated by news of James Cleverly’s return. But this evening, the only story causing...

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The Spectator@spectator · 17 m

Zelensky’s corruption crackdown is a disaster ✍️ Owen Matthews spectator.co.uk/article/zelens…

spectator's tweet card. Zelensky’s government seems to have seriously miscalculated the mood of ordinary Ukrainian people

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The Spectator@spectator · 1 h

Neil Young once saved my life. Or at least, that’s how I remember it. This was at an outdoor show in Finsbury Park in July 1993. I had pushed and squeezed my way almost to the front of a large crowd shortly after being passed something of dubious provenance to smoke. One moment…

spectator's tweet image. Neil Young once saved my life. Or at least, that’s how I remember it. This was at an outdoor show in Finsbury Park in July 1993. I had pushed and squeezed my way almost to the front of a large crowd shortly after being passed something of dubious provenance to smoke.

One moment…

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The Spectator@spectator · 2 h

Tim Davie must resign ✍️ Hugh Thomson spectator.co.uk/article/tim-da…

spectator's tweet card. Never has the BBC needed to have a visionary in post more to survive. Never has it had someone so clearly inadequate for the job

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The Spectator@spectator · 2 h

The trouble with Gillian Anderson ✍️ Alexander Larman spectator.co.uk/article/the-tr…

spectator's tweet card. Gillian Anderson's most recent performance in The Salt Path may yet turn out to be one of her most controversial

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The Spectator@spectator · 2 h

Bring back the milkman! ✍️ Rob Crossan spectator.co.uk/article/bring-…

spectator's tweet card. Even if you couldn’t care a fig for sustainability, it’s hard not to be impressed with the Nostradamus-esque foresight of the milk float. In an era when Old King Coal ruled the roost and recycling...

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The Spectator@spectator · 2 h

London is due a lido renaissance ✍️ Alfie Pearce-Higgins spectator.co.uk/article/london…

spectator's tweet card. There are 1,000 spaces available for the 6-9 a.m. lane swimming session at Tooting Bec Lido in south London. On Sunday it was fully booked. After a few frantic lengths (at 91m, it is Europe’s...

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The Spectator@spectator · 3 h

Could a secretive Swiss clinic cure my bad habits? ✍️ Jonathan Ray spectator.co.uk/article/could-…

spectator's tweet card. Having just turned 65, I enjoyed a week of firsts. My first ever facial and my first ever yoga class progressed to my first ever impedancemetry session, my first ever photobiomodulation session, my...

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The Spectator@spectator · 13 h

The force of Typhoon Tyson, Sydney, 1954 ✍️ Patrick Kidd spectator.co.uk/article/the-fo…

spectator's tweet card. Lord Hawke, the grand old man of Yorkshire cricket and stalwart of the MCC, was not one to mince words. A century ago, the administrator rejected calls for the national XI to be led by Jack Hobbs....

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The Spectator@spectator · 13 h

The enigma of Tiger Woods ✍️ John Niven spectator.co.uk/article/the-en…

spectator's tweet card. The aim of this book is straightforward enough: a study of the Tiger Slam, the incredible 2000-01 season when Tiger Woods held the Masters, the US Open, the Open and the PGA championship all at the...

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The Spectator@spectator · 15 h

Boredom is Rachel Reeves’s secret weapon ✍️ Madeline Grant spectator.co.uk/article/boredo…

spectator's tweet card. Perhaps Rachel Reeves' plan is to bore the markets into submission: after all, the stock exchange can’t crash if everyone’s asleep

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The Spectator@spectator · 16 h

Ukraine’s anti-corruption institutions are under attack ✍️ Svitlana Morenets spectator.co.uk/article/ukrain…

spectator's tweet card. Ukraine’s parliament has passed a bill that destroys the independence of the country’s key anti-corruption bodies.

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The Spectator@spectator · 16 h

Ex-Unite boss under fire over private jets and million-pound hotel project ✍️ Steerpike spectator.co.uk/article/ex-uni…

spectator's tweet card. Well, well, well. It would appear the former Unite the Union boss Len McCluskey is not immune to the temptation of free gifts. An internal report has revealed that the trade unionist enjoyed private...

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The Spectator@spectator · 16 h

Despite Health Secretary Wes Streeting’s efforts, the British Medical Association has announced this afternoon that the doctors’ strikes are on. ✍️ Lucy Dunn spectator.co.uk/article/strike…

spectator's tweet card. Despite Health Secretary Wes Streeting’s efforts, the British Medical Association (BMA) has announced this afternoon that the doctors’ strikes are on. From 7 a.m. this Friday until 7 a.m. next...

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The Spectator@spectator · 16 h

Elizabeth Harrower – the greatest Australian writer you’ve never heard of ✍️ Peter Craven spectator.co.uk/article/elizab…

spectator's tweet card. Elizabeth Harrower (1928-2020) became an Australian literary classic before she had fully established herself as an Australian writer. She had a rough childhood in Newcastle, New South Wales, and...

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The Spectator@spectator · 17 h

Farage unveils first defection in Wales ✍️ James Heale spectator.co.uk/article/farage…

spectator's tweet card. This afternoon, Nigel Farage unveiled his party’s first defector in the Welsh parliament: Laura Anne Jones.

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The Spectator@spectator · 18 h

Farage is right, our police must be tougher ✍️ Ian Acheson spectator.co.uk/article/farage…

spectator's tweet card. Nigel Farage said that thousands of new police officers will fill the streets, paid for by cancelled bat tunnels and wind farms.

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The Spectator@spectator · 20 h

Communities – and generations – look increasingly fragmented in the UK and a kind of local-level protectionism is being bred, as economic pressures tied into the cost of living crisis and housing shortage remain a feature of public life. People are growing less interested in…

spectator's tweet image. Communities – and generations – look increasingly fragmented in the UK and a kind of local-level protectionism is being bred, as economic pressures tied into the cost of living crisis and housing shortage remain a feature of public life.

People are growing less interested in…

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