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Mary Wakefield

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Court out / The Met’s misogyny

Court out /					 													 						The Met’s misogyny
27.03.2025 8

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By George / The cat that tamed Dom

By George /					 													 						The cat that tamed Dom
14.03.2025 20

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Soldiering through / The great betrayal of the SAS

03.03.2025 20

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Soldiering through / The great betrayal of the SAS

03.03.2025 10

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Don’t believe the ‘Believe Her’ movement

01.02.2025 20

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The fight against gender madness isn’t over

24.01.2025 20

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The nuclear family? We blew it up years ago

Now that John Lewis has produced a Christmas ad that celebrates family, starring white people as humans, all sorts of thinkers and commentators on...

15.12.2024 10

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Arts / ‘When a work lands the excitement is physical’: William Kentridge interviewed

Watching William Kentridge’s film Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot is like being submerged inside his mind, inside the coffee pot maybe. There’s so...

28.11.2024 4

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Books / We need to learn to pray again

In The Spectator’s basement kitchen a few weeks ago, I cornered a young colleague, Angus Colwell, and asked him what he made of Rod Dreher’s new...

22.11.2024 3

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America / How to process your Trump trauma (with orange soup)

It’s amazing how many people have responded to what they think of as the shattering catastrophe of Donald Trump’s victory by crafting: making rag...

14.11.2024 7

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End of the affair / My AI boyfriend turned psycho

Last week it was reported that a 14-year-old boy, Sewell Setzer, killed himself for the love of a chatbot, a robot companion devised by a company...

31.10.2024 2

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WWII / The rehabilitation of evil

One of the many good reasons to want every new generation to study the second world war is that it forces you to confront your own cowardice. Last...

17.10.2024 9

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France / Pornography and the truth about the Pelicot case

There have been protests in 30 cities across France, people marching in outrage over the case of Dominique Pelicot who drugged his wife Gisèle and...

05.10.2024 10

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Ticking the boxes / The adult ADHD trap

I was on the bus recently and bored when I decided not to ignore but to answer one of those online questionnaires about adult ADHD. It was on...

19.09.2024 10

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Cult thinking / No one will change their mind about Hamas

Earlier this summer, my son and I biked over to fashionable east Hackney where it’s normal to pay £4.20 for a coffee and £3 for a croissant and...

09.09.2024 10

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Why children have stopped reading

It’s only when you read the old stories again, to a child maybe, that you become aware of the extent to which the characters still live inside your...

08.08.2024 3

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America / Why Elon Musk is right to leave California

Not long before Joe Biden finally accepted defeat, Gavin Newsom, the 56-year-old governor of California, was on the stump for him in Bucks County,...

29.07.2024 30

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Email etiquette / Why was Jeremy Hunt SHOUTING AT ME?

Robert Jenrick, once immigration minister and still, just, MP for Newark, said on Sunday that the Tories lost not because ‘they had this slogan or...

11.07.2024 1

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