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CoffeeHousers’ Wall, 17 October – 23 October 2011

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Welcome to the latest CoffeeHousers’ Wall. For those who haven’t come across the Wall before, it’s a post we put up each Monday, on which — providing your writing isn’t libellous, crammed with swearing, or offensive to common decency — you’ll be able to say whatever you like in the comments section. There is no

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Just in case you missed them… | 17 October 2011

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…here are some of the posts made at Spectator.co.uk over the weekend. Fraser Nelson says that unionists are in trouble: 39 per cent of Scots are in favour of independence. Matt Cavanagh notes that voters want immigration to be reduced, just not like this. James Forsyth wonders how Justine Greening will handle the airports issue, and

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Egypt’s new theocracy

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The massacre this week of Coptic Christians in Cairo stands as a bloody corrective to the idea that the ‘Arab Spring’ was a wonderful uprising of the masses against dictators. Revolutions are not, in themselves, causes for celebration if they create a vacuum that can be filled by evil. The deliberate mowing down of dozens

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Portrait of the Week – 15 October 2011

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Home The Bank of England launched out on a further £75 billion worth of quantitative easing, but refused to buy government bonds maturing in 2017 because traders had driven up the price. Typical households will not return to the level of income they enjoyed in 2009 until 2015, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

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Letters | 15 October 2011

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Members only Sir: Charles Moore (Notes, 8 October) makes some apposite comments about this year’s Conservative conference. This was my 19th annual conference and I feel disinclined to continue to attend despite being a past branch, constituency and area chairman. It is no wonder the attendance by party members was down: Manchester is not one

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Your nominations for the Spectator Threadneedle parliamentarian awards

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Voter apathy? Don’t you believe it. Ever since we asked our readers to nominate this year’s best parliamentarian, our digital post bag has been full to bursting. Nominations have come from as nearby as Westminster and as far away as Australia. They have spanned all three major political parties, and Ukip besides. And they have