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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 5h
The folly of releasing Hamas terrorists for peace

✍️ Tom Gross

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The folly of releasing Hamas terrorists for peace
Sorry to spoil the party, but there’s one aspect of this week’s Middle East peace deal which is pure madness. As part of the US-brokered ceasefire in Gaza, Israel is set to free 250 Palestinian…
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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 6h
The haka may generate online clicks, but for many New Zealanders scenes like this are a bit cringeworthy

✍️ David Cohen

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Why the Maori party keep doing the haka in parliament
Parliamentary proceedings in New Zealand once again screeched to a halt this week after an unsanctioned performance of the haka caused bedlam in the country’s normally genteel debating chamber,…
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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 6h
Diane Keaton was a true original

✍️ Alexander Larman

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Diane Keaton was a true original
The death of the actress Diane Keaton at the age of 79 was greeted with an understandable mixture of sadness and surprise. Sadness, because the death of one of the leading ladies of the Seventies and…
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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 7h
Jeremy Corbyn’s new party is self-destructing

✍️ Max Jeffery

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Jeremy Corbyn’s new party is self-destructing
Your Party has emerged as an undemocratic and Stalinist horrorshow of which Corbyn is the ineffective and reluctant icon.
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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 7h
Since April, 200 people have been attacked and six killed by bears in Japan. The ongoing grisliness is threatening to seriously impact tourism in certain areas.

✍️ Philip Patrick

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Japan has a bear problem
Most bear attacks are in the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido which is known as ‘Japan’s last frontier’
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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 8h
What Margaret Thatcher meant to Hungary

✍️ Adam LeBor

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What Margaret Thatcher meant to Hungary
Hungary has given Thatcher the most fitting tribute: an iron and steel statue of the Iron Lady in a city once behind the Iron Curtain.
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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 9h
It’s getting harder for scientists not to believe in God

✍️ Michel-Yves Bolloré

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It's getting harder for scientists not to believe in God
The majority of Gen Z people polled believe you can be religious and be a good scientist. Times are changing when it comes to science and God
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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 10h
London was once the financial capital of the world, and a leader in IPOs. Now it is has fallen to number 23 in the global IPO rankings, surpassed by the likes of Mexico and Indonesia

✍️ James Graham

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Who killed the London Stock Exchange?
Stock exchanges around the world compete with each other to entice the most exciting companies to sell their shares on their markets, via Initial Public Offerings (IPOs). London was once the…
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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 1d
Are we Irish an over-sensitive lot?

✍️ Liz Walsh
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No wonder the Irish hate Netflix's House of Guinness
How did the producers of Netflix's new show House of Guinness get the Brits so right and the Irish so wrong?
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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 1d
Padel has taken off for reasons that have nothing to do with sport.

✍️ Arabella Byrne
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Padel is a disgrace
I thought padel might have the same feel of the restrained geometry and simmering tension of the tennis court. It does not.
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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 1d
In The Tortured Poets Department, the mask began to slip as Swift tore into her non-committal ‘forever-boyfriend’.

✍️ Lois McLatchie Miller
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Taylor Swift has shattered feminism's fragile lie
in The Tortured Poets Department (2024), the mask began to slip as Taylor Swift tore into her non-committal 'forever-boyfriend'
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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 1d
My brief career as an ‘Eye in the Sky’ airborne reporter

✍️ Paul Burke
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My brief career as an ‘Eye in the Sky’ airborne reporter
I was watching Slow Horses the other night and as usual, there was some sort of terrorist-related mayhem which had brought London to a standstill. But there was also a little anachronism. Hovering…
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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 1d
When is a drink not a drink?

✍️ Olivia Potts
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When is a drink not a drink?
After smashing open a £37,000 Glenrothes ’51, Olivia Potts asks: if a rare Scotch sits unopened and undrunk, is it even a whisky or just a chattel?
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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 1d
It’s hard to find the words to describe how exhausting these attacks are for Ukrainians, who haven’t had a peaceful night’s sleep since February 2022.

✍️ Svitlana Morenets
Putin's winter campaign begins
Last night, Putin unleashed nearly 500 Shahed drones, decoys and missiles against Ukraine, launched simultaneously at different regions from multiple directions,
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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 1d
If these are the grown ups, then send in the clowns.

✍️ Madeline Grant
When will Labour be honest about its China spy problem?
Yvette Cooper managed to say ‘let me be clear’ twice, in a couple of minutes during her interview with Nick Robinson on the Today Programme
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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 1d
Hamas must release all 20 living hostages within 72 hours. The countdown has begun.

✍️ Jonathan Sacerdoti
The real Gaza deal unfolds in the next 72 hours
The machine is beginning to turn. The ceasefire agreed between Israel and Hamas, brokered with the direct involvement of President Trump, his envoy Steve Witkoff, and adviser Jared Kushner, has now formally...
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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 2d
There’s a touch of the Miss Havisham about this: Knight sitting by candlelight in a house full of tat.

✍️ Julie Burchill
What could be worse than property porn? Well...
I’m of the opinion that an overriding interest in ‘porn’ of any kind (I love the way we use the affectionate diminutive about something which ruins so many lives – like calling him ‘Fred’...
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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 2d
The royal family’s mental health dance.

✍️ Alexander Larman
The royal family’s mental health dance
Whether you consider World Mental Health Day an important and necessary means of drawing attention to often overlooked issues, or a gimmicky fad that somehow manages to overlook the other 364 days a year...
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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 2d
Three PIRA terrorists drove a stolen car from Moneymore, County Londonderry, to Coagh in order to murder a soldier.

✍️ Eliot Wilson
A judge has finally seen sense over the SAS's ambush of three IRA men
Three PIRA terrorists drove a stolen car from Moneymore, County Londonderry, to Coagh in order to murder a part-time soldier
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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 2d
The parole system is still geared towards the needs of offenders, with a pathway to rehabilitation and release for those serving long sentences.

✍️ Danny Shaw
The parole system still prioritises offenders over victims
David Norris, one of the men who murdered the black teenager Stephen Lawrence, had his parole hearing this week, but he was so uncomfortable about being seen that those watching on a videolink only ever...
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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 2d
The Nobel is a joke and has been for some time.

✍️ Freddy Gray
The Nobel snub won't bother Trump
Trump and his team are not fools. The Nobel 'snub' fits perfectly with the narrative MAGA wants to promote
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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 2d
Trump and LBJ both demonstrate how loathsome people can do good things.

✍️ Stephen Pollard
Donald Trump is an awful person – but a brilliant president
US president Donald Trump and LBJ both demonstrate how loathsome people can still do good things
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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 2d
SNP conference to vote on provisional parliament.

✍️ Steerpike
SNP conference to vote on provisional parliament
It’s the SNP’s big weekend out as party members and politicians make the painstaking journey to Aberdeen for the nationalists’ annual conference. Just seven months away from next year’s Scottish...
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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 2d
Why does Trump even want a Nobel Peace Prize?

✍️ Ross Clark
Why does Trump even want a Nobel Peace Prize?
Did anyone seriously think that Donald Trump was going to emerge this morning as winner of the Nobel Peace Prize?
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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 2d
Three bets for the weekend and beyond.

✍️ Penworthy
Three bets for the weekend and beyond
Newmarket trainer Harry Eustace is a master at targeting his best horses at big races. If there were those who did not know it before this year’s Royal Ascot, they certainly knew it afterwards. He landed...
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