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Bring back beef dripping!

Bring back beef dripping!
20.03.2025 9

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Angus Colwell

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

04.02.2025 10

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Angus Colwell

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

04.02.2025 3

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Angus Colwell

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

31.01.2025 7

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Angus Colwell

Rachel Reeves should not pack her lunch

18.01.2025 1

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Angus Colwell

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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Angus Colwell

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 2

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Angus Colwell

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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Angus Colwell

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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Angus Colwell

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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Angus Colwell

How to save Pret

Can you imagine how great it must have felt to be a Pret a Manger executive in late 2019? There was a Pret restaurant. They’d just bought Eat and...

19.07.2024 1

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Angus Colwell