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spectator.com.au | Dot Wordsworth
‘If they cancel you,’ said my husband, ‘will I be cancelled too?’ He may well ask. But I’m not sure how I’d tell if I had been cancelled. I don’t make platform appearances, so it is not so easy to deny me a platform. A popular way of doing people down is by means of something that Renée DiResta in the Guardian called the Transitive Property of Bad People, ‘which connects people and institutions in a daisy chain of guilt by association’.
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1 week ago | 
spectator.co.uk | Dot Wordsworth
Text size Small Medium Large Line Spacing Compact Normal Spacious Comments ‘If they cancel you,’ said my husband, ‘will I be cancelled too?’ He may well ask. But I’m not sure how I’d tell if I had been cancelled. I don’t make platform appearances, so it is not so easy to deny me a platform. A popular way of doing people down is by means of something that Renée DiResta in the Guardian called the Transitive Property of Bad People, ‘which connects people and institutions in a daisy chain of...
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thespectator.com | Kara Kennedy |Lee Cohen |Dot Wordsworth |Alexander Larman
Somewhere atop the sun-drenched hills of coastal California, failures go to rebrand themselves, and rebrand their rebrands as “pivots.” There, Kamala Harris and Meghan Markle are busy writing the next chapter in the book of blaming the system for the personal failures of wealthy and powerful people. Harris, fresh from discovering that Democratic strategists had invented the America that was enthusiastic about her, now contemplates her political afterlife.
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2 weeks ago | 
thespectator.com | Kate Andrews |Dot Wordsworth |Freddy Gray |Ian Williams
“THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!” President Donald Trump wrote on his Truth Social account yesterday morning. With trillions of dollars wiped off stock market value since his tariff announcements last week, this appeared to be an attempt to manufacture a silver lining. It also happened to be a literal statement.
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thespectator.com | Dot Wordsworth |Alexander Larman |Charles Cornish-Dale |cocaineBy James Delingpole
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been troubled by two verbal peculiarities in a week. The Duchess corrected a friend who called her “Meghan Markle” on television. “It’s so funny, too, that you keep saying Meghan Markle. You know I’m Sussex now,” she said. “This is our family name, our little family name.”Well, yes and no. Her children were registered as Mountbatten-Windsor at birth. That was a name invented by a declaration in the Privy Council in 1960.
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thespectator.com | Alexander Larman |Byron’s Women |Jenny McCartney |Dot Wordsworth
At the beginning of the debut episode of Meghan Markle’s new podcast, she is keen to assert her own identity. After flirting with tradwifedom in her most recent Netflix show With Love, Meghan, she is now casting off her brief nomenclature of “Meghan Sussex,” but nor should you refer to The Artist Formerly Known As The Duchess of Sussex as “Meghan Markle” any longer.
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2 weeks ago | 
thespectator.com | Paul du Quenoy |Dot Wordsworth |Kara Kennedy |Ben Domenech
“I am Kamala Harris. My pronouns are ‘she’ and ‘her.’ I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit.” That embarrassing exercise in self-parody was how the former vice president of the United States chose to introduce herself at a July 2022 roundtable on how the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade could affect disabled people. Harris’s pandering indulgence in radical gender ideology barely attracted notice at the time.
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2 weeks ago | 
spectator.com.au | Dot Wordsworth
‘Oh no, darling’ said my husband, stirring from torpor in his armchair, ‘only about seven ounces of you is bacteria – about the same amount as those little bottles of milk we had at school.’ I had been talking about billions, trillions and quadrillions and had suggested that our bodies’ cells were outnumbered ten to one by bacteria.
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2 weeks ago | 
thespectator.com | Dot Wordsworth
“What are your intentions toward my daughter?” said my husband, screwing an imaginary monocle into his eye. We had been trying to work out what intentional living meant, with regard to the Duchess of Sussex’s new brand of flower sprinkles and raspberry jam. “The collection is infused with joy, love, and a touch of whimsy,” says the publicity. “Thoughtfully curated, As Ever celebrates intentional living.” Intentional living could be the opposite of assisted dying, I suppose. It is quite a puzzle.
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2 weeks ago | 
spectator.co.uk | Dot Wordsworth
Text size Small Medium Large Line Spacing Compact Normal Spacious Comments ‘Oh no, darling’ said my husband, stirring from torpor in his armchair, ‘only about seven ounces of you is bacteria – about the same amount as those little bottles of milk we had at school.’ I had been talking about billions, trillions and quadrillions and had suggested that our bodies’ cells were outnumbered ten to one by bacteria. But since 2016, apparently, the reliable estimate is of 30 trillion human cells with 38...
