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Donald Trump has taken pity on Prince Harry

Donald Trump has taken pity on Prince Harry
yesterday 10

The Spectator

Alexander Larman

Meghan Markle’s tone-deaf wildfire video is hard to stomach

Meghan Markle’s tone-deaf wildfire video is hard to stomach
05.02.2025 30

The Spectator

Alexander Larman

Kate Middleton must not become the new Diana

Kate Middleton must not become the new Diana
31.01.2025 9

The Spectator

Alexander Larman

Books / The self-serving delusions of the ‘Swastika Kaiser’

Books / The self-serving delusions of the ‘Swastika Kaiser’
28.01.2025 20

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Alexander Larman

Books / The self-serving delusions of the ‘Swastika Kaiser’

Books / The self-serving delusions of the ‘Swastika Kaiser’
28.01.2025 10

The Spectator

Alexander Larman

Don’t get your hopes up for a WH Smith revival

Don’t get your hopes up for a WH Smith revival
27.01.2025 40

The Spectator

Alexander Larman

Books / The self-serving delusions of the ‘Swastika Kaiser’

Books / The self-serving delusions of the ‘Swastika Kaiser’
23.01.2025 10

The Spectator

Alexander Larman

Lawfare / Prince Harry has won a Pyrrhic victory over the Sun

Lawfare / Prince Harry has won a Pyrrhic victory over the Sun
22.01.2025 5

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Alexander Larman

RIP / What made David Lynch cool

18.01.2025 10

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Alexander Larman

What made David Lynch cool

18.01.2025 10

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Alexander Larman

The quiet bravery of Kate Middleton

15.01.2025 5

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Alexander Larman

Fact check / The Sussexes’ tone deaf attack on Meta

14.01.2025 10

The Spectator

Alexander Larman

Brace yourselves for Meghan Markle’s comeback

As many of us lurched blearily into 2025, desperately trying to remember how, exactly, we’d managed to cause offence to our nearest and dearest in...

02.01.2025 9

The Spectator

Alexander Larman

This has been an awful year for the royals

At the beginning of King Charles’s Christmas speech this year, viewers may have been surprised when he did not immediately talk about his, or his...

26.12.2024 2

The Spectator

Alexander Larman

Beware the middle of Lidl

If you’re a regular, or even an occasional, customer at Lidl, you’ll know what to expect. Own-brand foodstuffs that shamelessly imitate...

26.12.2024 6

The Spectator

Alexander Larman

Why the King’s speech still matters

Later today, the King will address the nation, as he has annually since he acceded the throne in September 2022. This year’s is expected not only...

25.12.2024 10

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Alexander Larman

King Charles has a long road to recovery ahead

At the end of what has undoubtedly been a true annus horribilis for the monarchy, King Charles, at least, seems to have recovered something of his...

20.12.2024 4

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Alexander Larman

The Royals would be right to ban Andrew from Christmas

Sixty years ago, in the aftermath of one of the twentieth century’s most salacious scandals, the former MP John Profumo took on a role as a...

16.12.2024 5

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Alexander Larman

Hardly novel / The sad decline of the Booker Prize

There was a magnificent chorus of spluttering and gasping in literary London last week when it was announced that the actress Sarah Jessica Parker...

16.12.2024 4

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Alexander Larman

Prince Andrew’s Chinese ‘spy’ blunder is no surprise

It is fair to say that Prince Andrew has always had poor taste in friends. Notoriously, and reputation-shreddingly, he consorted with Jeffrey...

13.12.2024 10

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Alexander Larman

Does David Beckham really deserve a knighthood?

Sir David Beckham. Sir Goldenballs. Once upon a time, when Beckham was in his sarong-wearing Nineties heyday, the idea of this petulant, photogenic...

06.12.2024 20

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Alexander Larman

Was the Emir of Qatar’s visit a good idea?

As the first day of the Emir of Qatar’s state visit to Britain draws to a close, all those involved in this its organisation might allow themselves...

03.12.2024 4

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Alexander Larman

The new Jaguar is spectacularly hideous

Winston Churchill reputedly said ‘Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.’ This adage must have been at the...

03.12.2024 7

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Alexander Larman

Shutting Smithfield shows a reckless disregard for London’s history

Virtually every aspect of London has changed beyond recognition in the past nine hundred years, but there has been one certainty: Smithfield...

27.11.2024 4

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Alexander Larman

Books / A century of Hollywood’s spectacular flops

Gore Vidal once sighed that ‘every time a friend succeeds, I die a little’, and there is inevitably a sense that when some idiotic blockbuster...

21.11.2024 1

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Alexander Larman

What on earth is Jaguar thinking?

Along with Aston Martin and Rolls Royce, Jaguar is, for most people, one of the great British blue chip motoring brands. When Inspector Morse drove...

20.11.2024 9

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Alexander Larman

The Firm / The Royal Family must be careful with Kate

If this year’s Remembrance Sunday was unusually affecting, it was in large part due to the presence of both the King and the Princess of Wales at...

10.11.2024 3

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Alexander Larman

Prince Andrew will struggle to recover from A Very Royal Scandal

Sensational dramas about the Duke of York are rather like London buses: you wait five years for one, and then two come along at once. Amazon...

18.09.2024 5

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Alexander Larman

Kate’s message of hope is wonderful news for the Royals

The Royal Family has not had much to celebrate lately, so the relief that the world will feel with the announcement that the Princess of Wales has...

09.09.2024 3

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Alexander Larman