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Here is a selection of articles and discussions from this week on Spectator.co.uk… Fraser Nelson thinks Gus O’Donnell isn’t good enough for Threadneadle Street and looks at an emerging tricolour Britain. James Forsyth reports that Leveson is narrowing Cameron’s fightback window and looks at the political effects of the hacking talk. Peter Hoskin looks at Obama’s political
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Murdoch’s responsibility Sir: Having examined Rupert Murdoch’s dealings with successive governments, Tom Bower (‘Dangerous liaisons’, 28 April) wearily concludes: ‘Blaming the businessman for exploiting politicians’ follies is akin to blaming whales for eating sardines.’ Does the conservative doctrine of personal responsibility extend to media moguls? Or is that, as Leona Helmsley said of paying taxes,
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Place names If François Hollande is elected French president this week, he will join a very small group: world leaders whose surnames match the names of foreign countries (although Holland is strictly only a region of the Netherlands). — The closest world leader currently to bear this distinction is Co-Prince Joan Enric Vives Sicilia,