The Spectator

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,

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?

Aliens

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‘It’s Zok here from the “human abduction team”. Do we have disabled access facilities?’

Outside 2

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‘I do wish you wouldn’t look at the outside world — you know it only upsets you.’

Dec

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‘I’m in for assaulting Ant, but it’s a case of mistaken identity — I thought it was Dec.’

Eurovision 2

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‘There’s only one sanction Putin will respond to – we must throw Russia out of the Eurovision Song Contest immediately.’