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The Spectator

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The most influential magazine in Britain. Politics, global affairs, culture and lifestyle. News, commentary and analysis

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I had a culinary revelation this week. I like to think I'm an egalitarian when it comes to food – I like beautiful, fancy restaurant stuff and home-cooked one-pot dishes, I like punchy, in-your-face flavour, and subtle, softer flavours. I love trying new-to-me dishes from
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The MCB simply does not represent British Muslims ✍️ Andrew Gilligan
The Muslim Council of Britain is losing relevance
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Lewis Hamilton has a long history of acting like both a princeling and a drag queen in terms of entitlement and drama, while also liking to present himself as the underdog ✍️ Julie Burchill
Kim Kardashian deserves better than Lewis Hamilton
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This is only one of a number of scandals that are putting the Royal Navy’s crewmen and women’s lives needlessly at risk ✍️ Mark Piesing
The aircraft carrier which shows the deep flaw in Britain’s navy
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Donald Trump, caricatured before his presidency as a warmonger, is nothing of the kind ✍️ Jonathan Spyer
Donald Trump, Iran and the art of a peace deal
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The question I find myself asking along with a lot of other football fans is: What are we doing? What are we doing to these players? ✍️ Scarlet Katz Roberts
Despite it all, I love the World Cup
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London was not merely a refuge; for a time, it was a temporary Polish capital. Poles have never forgotten it ✍️ Piotr Wilczek
How London became Poland’s second capital
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Pessimism about the United Kingdom’s position in the world has a long pedigree. But the talk of our decline is overblown ✍️ Brendan Simms
Is Britain still Great?
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We're only a few months – perhaps years at most – away from the first political assassination by a drone'. That was the chilling verdict delivered by Francis Dearnley on this week's episode of The Edition podcast from The Spectator. The host of the award-winning Ukraine: The
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This is not the end, but it's well past the beginning of the end, or even the middle of the end. It feels, with six days until the Makerfield by-election is expected to return Andy Burnham to Parliament, that we are at the beginning of the end of the end. It is also well past
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If you've ever lived in Marseille – where the habit of exaggeration is imbibed with mothers' milk – you've heard about the sardine that blocked the port. But that's nothing compared to the pistachio that took over the world. In late 2023, Dubai chocolate, a new kind of chocolate
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Since Donald Trump retook office in January 2025, Washington has experienced significant upheaval in its institutions. The United States Institute of Peace underwent a DoGE takeover that involved federal police occupying the building, taking over its board of directors and
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Donald Trump's 80th birthday is this weekend, and what better present for a struggling octogenarian Commander-in-Chief than a peace deal with Iran, signed if not quite yet sealed and delivered. There is, I'm told, some late scrambling over “semantics” in the so-called
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