The Spectator

Portrait of the week | 13 June 2013

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Home Six men from the West Midlands — Omar Khan, Jewel Uddin, Mohammed Hasseen, Mohammed Saud, Zohaib Ahmed and Anzal Hussain — were jailed for 18 or 19 years on terrorism charges after planning to bomb an English Defence League rally in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, last year. After a fire caused minor damage at the Darul Uloom

Top secrets

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This week’s exposé of the US National Security Agency has been heralded as the greatest intelligence leak since the Pentagon Papers. It is nothing of the sort. Far from revealing some institutional outrage, the whistleblower Edward Snowden merely appears to have found what any low-level intelligence source might find. Intelligence agencies try to find things

Theresa May’s Reform speech: full text

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This is the full text of a speech delivered this week by Home Secretary Theresa May to the Reform think tank. We’re delivering more with less – so let’s have the courage of our convictions Thank you.  A year or two ago I appeared on ‘Question Time’, and before the filming Shirley Williams introduced me

Mp

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‘As an MP, one needs a second job in order to keep in touch with ordinary people.’

Angry

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‘He used to be a chess Grand Master. Now he’s just really really good at Angry Birds.’

Fat 2

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‘I suppose I just have to accept that you’re not Daddy’s little girl any more.’