Prisoners
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‘There’s a copy of Crime and Punishment in the cake.’
The Spectator
Thursday
Farmers
From our UK edition
‘Cannabis, actually.’
Spectator letters: Interpreting Islam, and Spectator-reading thieves
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Chapter and verse on Islam Sir: Irshad Manji’s generally very sensible article on ‘Reclaiming Islam’ (29 March) suggests using the Qur’an sura 3:7 as a verse to challenge Islamists who claim a fundamentalist reading. She quotes the verse as saying that ‘God and God alone knows the full truth of how the Qu’ran ought to
François Hollande’s France is a preview of Ed Miliband’s Britain. And it’s terrifying
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François Hollande and Ed Miliband could be political blood brothers. Neither has held down a job outside politics for any serious length of time. Both have been political bag carriers, graduating to apparatchiks. Both have tried to compensate for their essential blandness by adopting radical left-wing policies. Both now pose as socialists, and tout genuinely
Portrait of the week | 3 April 2014
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Home George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, made ‘a commitment to fight for full employment in Britain’ and for the country ‘to have the highest employment rate of any of the world’s leading economies’. Wolfgang Schäuble, his counterpart in Germany, agreed that any EU treaty changes should ‘guarantee fairness’ to countries outside the eurozone.
Books and Arts – 3 April 2014
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Full text: Tristram Hunt’s speech to the Spectator schools conference
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listen to ‘Tristram Hunt’s speech + Q&A at Spectator’s schools conference’ on Audioboo Free Schools, For-profit Schools and the Swedish Slide Thank you. It is, as ever, a great pleasure to speak from the platform of England’s oldest continuously published magazine. And especially so on education, which has always been one of its uppermost concerns. Indeed,
Wednesday
Live: Nick Clegg vs Nigel Farage debate – round two
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This is a live blog for tonight’s debate between Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage, kicking off at 7pm. We’ll be adding in audio from the debate below. This page will automatically update every minute. Comments from James Forsyth and Fraser Nelson
Monday
Putin vs. Obama: whose side are the American right on?
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Under the shadow of the Crimean situation, Harry Cole travelled to Washington DC to find out what American conservatives really make of Putin. He asked attendees of this month’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPac) who is worse — President Obama, or President Putin?
George Osborne’s ‘fight for full employment’ speech – full text
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In a speech given at Tilbury Port in Essex, Chancellor George Osborne hailed cuts to business and personal taxes this week as the ‘biggest in two decades’ – and committed to ‘fight for full employment in Britain’. Here’s what he said:- Thank you for coming here to Tilbury Port, this morning. We’re all here at
Thursday
Tick
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‘I want you to tick all the boxes’
Aliens
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‘It’s Zok here from the “human abduction team”. Do we have disabled access facilities?’
Burka
From our UK edition
‘Men — they’re all the same.’
Unicorns
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‘I make it 8.36.’
Cable
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Smoking 7
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‘Anti-smoking propaganda has really hardened.’
Multitask
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‘And verily I say to you, go forth and multitask.’
Outside 2
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‘I do wish you wouldn’t look at the outside world — you know it only upsets you.’
Tramps 4
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‘Night, night. Sleep tight.’
Clowns 2
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‘I’m bravely taking a make-up-free selfie.’