Break 2
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‘I’m hoping for a commercial break.’
The Spectator
Thursday
Magazines 2
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London
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Block 2
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Sculptor’s block
Dogs 7
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Bishop 3
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‘I’m not really a bishop — I just like wearing women’s clothing.’
Tipp Ex
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Nothing
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‘Says nothing to me ...I like it...’
Remember
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‘Hey! Remember Cool and Subversive?’
Egmont
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‘Here comes the kids’ books rep.’
Winter
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‘And now ...winter.’
Tattoo 5
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‘Just an anchor! That’s all?’
Please
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Chase
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‘My zebra chase footage got more than 100 likes.’
Spectator letters: A history of Stepford Students; Brendan Behan and Joan Littlewood; and the Army’s tour of Pakistan
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Silencing students Sir: The Stepford Students (22 November) are nothing new. The NUS-inspired ‘No Platform’ policy has been used to ban anything that student radicals don’t like since at least the 1970s — usually Christians, pro-life groups or Israel sympathisers. It should not be in the power of the narrow-minded activists of the student union
The price of seeing Santa (and what it gets you)
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Dear Santas A £22.50 a head Christmas theme park in Warwickshire designed by Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen closed temporarily for improvements after visitors complained of mud, a skinny, swearing Father Christmas and elves who stood around smoking. What do you get when you take your children to see Santa? Prices for family of four: — £20 Santa
Playing chicken with Vladimir Putin
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An official end to the Cold War was declared at a summit between President George H. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev on a Soviet cruise ship moored at Malta on 2 December 1989. It is only a matter of time before western governments will have to admit that it has recommenced. While the rhetoric against Islamic
Portrait of the week | 27 November 2014
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Home Theresa May, the Home Secretary, spent a few days announcing things. She broadcast on the Andrew Marr Show on television and then on Desert Island Discs. She said Britain was ‘unlikely’ to meet a target of reducing net immigration to the tens of thousands, because EU migration had ‘blown us off course’. Regarding child
Books and arts – 27 November 2014
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The Spectator at war: Preachers of sedition
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From The Spectator, 28 November 1914: If the press is to be muzzled, why do not the muzzling laws hold good in Ireland? It is against all common-sense to place Ireland in a privileged position — to give roving licences to any Irishmen who care to kill recruiting. Men have been arrested in England for
