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No one seems sure why Olly Robbins had to go

This session of parliament is due to end between 29 April and 6 May. Now the government is desperate for an Order in Council to kill it off by 9 a.m....

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Charles Moore

The Spectator’s notes / The only ‘civilization’ Trump will destroy is his own

The Spectator’s notes / The only ‘civilization’ Trump will destroy is his own

If, as Donald Trump had threatened, ‘a whole civilisation’ had died on Tuesday night, the whole civilisation concerned would have been that of the...

19.04.2026 10

The Spectator

Charles Moore

The Spectator’s notes / The only ‘civilisation’ Trump will destroy is his own

The Spectator’s notes / The only ‘civilisation’ Trump will destroy is his own

If, as Donald Trump had threatened, ‘a whole civilisation’ had died on Tuesday night, the whole civilisation concerned would have been that of the...

13.04.2026 10

The Spectator

Charles Moore

The Spectator’s notes / The only ‘civilisation’ Trump will destroy is his own

The Spectator’s notes / The only ‘civilisation’ Trump will destroy is his own

If, as Donald Trump had threatened, ‘a whole civilisation’ had died on Tuesday night, the whole civilisation concerned would have been that of the...

13.04.2026 10

The Spectator

Charles Moore

The Spectator’s notes / Does it matter if Prince William believes in God?

The Prince of Wales seeks to assure us that, as a friend puts into his mouth, ‘I might not be at church every day, but I believe in it.’ That...

03.04.2026 10

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Charles Moore

The Spectator’s notes / Does it matter if Prince William believes in God?

The Prince of Wales seeks to assure us that, as a friend puts into his mouth, ‘I might not be at church every day, but I believe in it.’ That...

27.03.2026 20

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Charles Moore

The Spectator’s notes / Will books soon become extinct?

I am glad that BBC Radio 4 is producing a series called How Reading Made Us, presented by the subtle, super-literate Times of London columnist James...

22.03.2026 10

The Spectator

Charles Moore

The Spectator’s notes / Will books soon become extinct?

I am glad that Radio 4 is producing a series called How Reading Made Us, presented by the subtle, super-literate Times columnist James Marriott. I...

16.03.2026 20

The Spectator

Charles Moore

The Spectator’s notes / Will books soon become extinct?

I am glad that Radio 4 is producing a series called How Reading Made Us, presented by the subtle, super-literate Times columnist James Marriott. I...

16.03.2026 20

The Spectator

Charles Moore

The Spectator’s Notes / Does Sadiq Khan approve of colonising?

How to report Iran? It is a huge story. Perhaps as many as 30,000 people were recently murdered there by the tottering regime, but it won’t let...

24.02.2026 10

The Spectator

Charles Moore

The Spectator’s Notes / Does Sadiq Khan approve of colonising?

How to report Iran? It is a huge story. Perhaps as many as 30,000 people were recently murdered there by the tottering regime, but it won’t let...

24.02.2026 10

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Charles Moore

Nigel Farage is not infallible

30.01.2026 20

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Charles Moore

The Spectator’s notes / Nigel Farage is not infallible

29.01.2026 10

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Charles Moore

The Spectator’s notes / The UK is an undeveloping country

16.01.2026 20

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Charles Moore

The Spectator's Notes / Should I wear a burka in the House of Lords?

16.12.2025 10

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Charles Moore

The Spectator's Notes / Should I wear a burka in the House of Lords?

16.12.2025 10

The Spectator

Charles Moore