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thespectator.com | Mathew Lyons |Christopher Sandford |Octavia Sheepshanks |Amelia Butler-Gallie
Fans of that beloved British cultural institution Doctor Who are wont to talk about “their” doctor — that is, which iteration of the character was their entry point to the franchise. The same might be said of fans of Neil Innes, the much-loved songwriter, musician and comedian who died in 2019, aged seventy-five.
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thespectator.com | Alexander Larman |Byron’s Women |Lionel Shriver |Octavia Sheepshanks
“Literature is mostly about having sex and not about having children.” So said the British novelist, occasional screenwriter and literary critic David Lodge, who died at the beginning of 2025 at the age of eighty-nine. Lodge, who had suffered from encroaching deafness for several decades, had not, in truth, been a major literary figure for a considerable period before his death.
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thespectator.com | Philip Hensher |Octavia Sheepshanks |Ido Vock |Henry Hitchings
The preservation of a strict social hierarchy rests very often on the enforcement of correct modes of address. In America today any university student may address any other as “dude,” but those who have attained a certain level of prestige will object if an unwary low-status blunderer ventures to call them “bro.” Rebels seeking to overturn rigid class systems will often start by violating such regulations.
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thespectator.com | Octavia Sheepshanks |Jacob Heilbrunn |Ben Domenech |Teresa Mull
Love is in the air at Casa Cockburn this Friday — it’s Valentine’s Day and politicos are pairing off. The most shocking? The revelation in the New York Post that divorced former mayor Bill de Blasio is dating Nomiki Konst, a Democratic activist and former host of HillTV’s Rising. “Nomi and I have started a really lovely relationship, just in time for Valentine’s Day. We’ve known each other for a long time and are very kindred souls ❤️,” the mayor texted the Post.
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thespectator.com | Octavia Sheepshanks |Ben Domenech |Francesca Peacock |Jonathan Sumption
A friend recently found himself trapped on a plane next to a young woman reading a Kindle bedecked with stickers of dragons and pointy-eared, hunky men. The font size was so large it was impossible not to see the sexually explicit text. He observed, “I was reading The Lord of the Rings; her book was more along the lines of I’m the Lord of Your Ring. I’ve never felt so uncomfortable.”Welcome to the cultural phenomenon of romantasy — a newly mainstreamed trend fueled by TikTok, or rather BookTok.
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