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Angus Colwell

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Wheel life / Lime bikes are dangerous. That’s why I love them

Wheel life / Lime bikes are dangerous. That’s why I love them
09.09.2025 20

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Melvyn Bragg / Why In Our Time must go on

Melvyn Bragg / Why In Our Time must go on
03.09.2025 4

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Television / The brilliance of BBC Alba

Television / The brilliance of BBC Alba
03.09.2025 5

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The brilliance of BBC Alba

The brilliance of BBC Alba
28.08.2025 8

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Chef de party / Lunch with Thomas Straker, the chef the restaurant world loves to hate

04.08.2025 20

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Chef de party / Lunch with Thomas Straker, the chef the restaurant world loves to hate

31.07.2025 4

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Is your restaurant halal?

28.06.2025 7

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Cut-throat business / Is your restaurant halal?

27.06.2025 3

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Cut-throat business / Is your restaurant halal?

26.06.2025 4

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Are the ‘lanyard class’ the new enemy?

24.05.2025 6

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Toe the line / Are the ‘lanyard class’ the new enemy?

22.05.2025 4

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Are the ‘lanyard class’ the new enemy?

22.05.2025 10

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The creeping Dubai-ification of London

05.05.2025 30

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Cultural desert / The creeping Dubai-ification of London

02.05.2025 7

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Cultural desert / The creeping Dubai-ification of London

01.05.2025 30

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The creeping Dubai-ification of London

01.05.2025 10

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Radio & podcasts / My Marco Pierre White obsession

29.04.2025 20

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Radio & podcasts / My Marco Pierre White obsession

29.04.2025 7

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Radio & podcasts / My Marco Pierre White obsession

27.04.2025 7

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Bring back beef dripping!

20.03.2025 9

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Interview / Sex, Socrates and stiff upper lips: an interview with Agnes Callard

04.02.2025 30

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Interview / Sex, Socrates and stiff upper lips: an interview with Agnes Callard

04.02.2025 7

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Interview / Sex, Socrates and stiff upper lips: an interview with Agnes Callard

31.01.2025 7

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Rachel Reeves should not pack her lunch

18.01.2025 10

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Do people find Trump as scary anymore?

In the Spectator offices, my colleague Mary Wakefield and I often end up talking about young people while we’re making tea. She thinks I’m a bit...

14.11.2024 30

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Nick Cave’s right-hand man Warren Ellis on AI, Gorecki and staying young

In the next few days Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds play Leeds, Glasgow, Manchester and London. There are still some tickets left. The price is...

31.10.2024 4

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Meal ticket / Pity the restaurant critic

An atom is made of protons, electrons and neutrons, and protons are made of quarks, and a quark is the size of the violin you’d play for a...

05.09.2024 2

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There should be a maximum smoking age

In January 2022, the New York Times ran a piece that declared that smoking was back, quoting Martin Amis’s daughter saying it seemed like it...

30.08.2024 3

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Far-right violence seen across Britain

It has been a weekend of riots. They began on Friday night in Sunderland, and were repeated in Bristol, Stoke, Hull, Belfast, Leeds, Manchester,...

04.08.2024 2

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