Ash
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‘Ah, autumn, when the trees begin to fall.’
The Spectator
Thursday
Letters | 1 November 2012
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Objections to gay marriage Sir: Hugo Rifkind (27 October) thinks that religious objections to gay marriage can be ignored because Christians have no right to impose their beliefs on others. He sees nothing illiberal, though, in a small number of progressives seeking to force their new definition of marriage on the rest of us. Our
Portrait of the week | 1 November 2012
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Home Hitachi bought Horizon Nuclear Power for £700 million, giving it rights to build nuclear power stations in Anglesey and Gloucestershire. John Hayes, the energy minister, said that Britain was ‘peppered’ with onshore wind turbines, and ‘enough is enough’. HM Revenue and Customs wrote to families with at least one member earning more than £50,000
Land of the right
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Next week, weather permitting, Americans will go to the ballot to choose between an unpopular Democratic president and an uninspiring Republican challenger. The 2012 US election may have become more exciting in recent weeks — the polls indicate a tense finish — but that fundamental quandary remains. President Obama, the great liberal hope of four
Books and Arts – 1 November 2012
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All together now | 1 November 2012
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Fraser Nelson British politicians have long dreamt of regulating the press, but have always been hampered by the basic point that the press isn’t theirs to regulate. Only now, with the industry on its knees, do the enemies of press freedom feel able to strike. Their hope is to appoint a press watchdog who would
Wednesday
Shelf Life: Judy Finnigan
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Judy Finnigan tells us which Dane she’d take on holiday, which book she found in her mother’s bedside drawer and which book had better be on Richard Madeley’s reading list. Eloise by Judy Finnigan is published by Sphere. She tweets @judyfinnigan. 1). What are you reading at the moment? I’m currently re-reading American Wife, by
Thursday
Police
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Ark
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‘So the flood-defence funding was cut, then?’
Tv 2
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Youth
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‘I think you’re right — it does make you look younger.’
Films
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‘We tend not to watch TV unless it’s an old film.’
Author 2
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Arms
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‘So I was here and the arms lobby was over there…’
Leveson
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Starbucks 3
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‘I wonder if we could use your loo?’
Cameron 2
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‘How would you deal with Prince Charles?
Heroes 2
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Swans
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‘I found out he was mating for life with someone else behind my back.’
Turtles
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‘Me, too. I can remember exactly where I was when I heard that President Lincoln had been shot.’