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No sacred cows / Beware this terrible new AI email feature

No sacred cows / Beware this terrible new AI email feature
yesterday 7

The Spectator

Toby Young

No sacred cows / Beware this terrible new AI email feature

No sacred cows / Beware this terrible new AI email feature
previous day 2

The Spectator

Toby Young

No sacred cows / Beware this terrible new AI email feature

No sacred cows / Beware this terrible new AI email feature
previous day 1

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Toby Young

University of Buckingham / James Tooley’s ordeal is over – but why was he ever suspended?

29.01.2025 6

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Toby Young

No sacred cows / The Trump I (barely) know

No sacred cows / The Trump I (barely) know
28.01.2025 10

The Spectator

Toby Young

No sacred cows / The Trump I (barely) know

No sacred cows / The Trump I (barely) know
28.01.2025 5

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Toby Young

No sacred cows / The Trump I (barely) know

No sacred cows / The Trump I (barely) know
24.01.2025 9

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Toby Young

No sacred cows / Could I limit myself to 100 bottles of wine in a year?

Back in January, I wrote about my new year’s resolution to cut down on my drinking. The thought of total abstinence was too bleak, so my plan was...

30.12.2024 4

The Spectator

Toby Young

Should I become Lord Young of Loftus Road?

When the editor of this magazine called to congratulate me on being given a peerage, he said: ‘It’s QPR’s first win this season.’ Not quite...

20.12.2024 1

The Spectator

Toby Young

No sacred cows / At 61, it’s official: I’m ‘young old’

I read with some disappointment recently that the Encyclopaedia Britannica considers 61 – the age I am now – to be the beginning of old age. It...

01.12.2024 3

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Toby Young

No sacred cows / Carry on Kafka: this is our Brave New World

An ex-copper who blogs as Dominic Adler – not his real name – came up with a good phrase this week to describe where Britain is heading under this...

21.11.2024 2

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Toby Young

No sacred cows / Must try harder, Education Secretary

The headmaster of one of the best comprehensives in the country was once asked the following question by Tony Blair: ‘If you could do one thing to...

14.11.2024 1

The Spectator

Toby Young

Why is Labour axing the Tories’ most successful education policy?

By any measure, the free schools programme has been a resounding success. If you judge schools by how much progress their pupils make between the...

23.10.2024 20

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Toby Young

No sacred cows / Why play the Saudi anthem before an all-British boxing match?

For only the second time in my life, I went to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia last weekend. At least, it felt like I was in Saudi. I’m talking about...

26.09.2024 1

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Toby Young

No sacred cows / Labour’s backwards steps on free speech

Free speech advocates like me need to stop talking about the meagre gains we made under the last government because the present one seems to be...

05.09.2024 1

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Toby Young