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Even Andy Burnham doesn’t know what Andy Burnham stands for

The British constitution is an admirably flexible thing, so I would not claim that Andy Burnham’s leadership campaign, and the coverage thereof, is...

28.06.2026 30

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Charles Moore

The £10 pint explains the rise of Reform

I bought my first pint of bitter, in a pub in Slough, in 1972. It cost 12 pence. The Bank of England inflation calculator tells me that is the...

30.05.2026 20

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Charles Moore

The Spectator’s notes / Devolution makes corruption likelier

Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, stands explicitly in the tradition of Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum 135 years ago. Both seek to...

29.05.2026 30

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Charles Moore

The Spectator’s notes / The £10 pint explains the rise of Reform

I bought my first pint of bitter, in a pub in Slough, in 1972. It cost 12 pence. The Bank of England inflation calculator tells me that is the...

21.05.2026 30

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Charles Moore

Keir Starmer is downplaying the Islamist threat to Jews

At the anti-Semitism “summit” in Downing Street, Sir Keir Starmer achieved a personal first. He used the word “Islamists.” But in order to...

18.05.2026 30

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Charles Moore

The Spectator’s notes / Cling on, Sir Keir

People laugh at Sir Keir Starmer for failing to acknowledge that he has almost no hope of survival. This is unfair. Until you absolutely know you will...

14.05.2026 30

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Charles Moore

Keir Starmer is downplaying the Islamist threat to Jews

At Tuesday’s anti-Semitism ‘summit’ in Downing Street, Sir Keir Starmer achieved a personal first. He used the word ‘Islamists’. But in...

08.05.2026 40

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Charles Moore

Olly Robbins’s next move

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....

02.05.2026 40

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Charles Moore

The Spectator’s notes / Can you answer this quiz intended for seven-year-olds?

‘Modernity’ is often behind the times. On Wednesday, parliament pushed out all remaining hereditary peers, although we live in an age when...

01.05.2026 40

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Charles Moore

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....

26.04.2026 40

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Charles Moore

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 40

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Charles Moore

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 30

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Charles Moore

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 40

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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...

03.04.2026 40

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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 50

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Charles Moore