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Jul 17, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Travis Elborough |Elisa Segrave |Elisenne Stoller |Tim Stanley
There has been a spate of books recently about private education, ranging from academic denouncements of their malign effects on society, such as Francis Green and David Kynaston’s Engines of Privilege, to Charles Spencer’s grim chronicle of neglect and abuse, A Very Private School. Though technically falling within this genre, 1967, the singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock’s diverting account of his formative spell at Winchester College, seems to hail from a rosier era.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Elisenne Stoller |Tim Stanley |Leyla Sanai
On Monday, in the aftermath of Trump’s shooting, President Biden sat down in the White House with NBC’s Lester Holt for an “unedited” interview, which aired in the evening. The president successfully made it through without any major gaffes, appearing combative when questioned about his mental acuity.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Tim Stanley |Leyla Sanai |Yascha Mounk
The great and the not-so-good of the international conservative movement have descended on Wisconsin this week. Liz Truss and Nigel Farage are among the Brits jetting in to toast President Trump’s formal nomination at the Republican National Convention. But what of the man they once called “Britain’s Trump?” Boris Johnson yesterday made a rather low-key appearance at the conference, appearing at vaping panel that was remarkable only for its poor turn-out.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Tim Stanley |Leyla Sanai |Yascha Mounk
Even amid inner Democratic turmoil over his capability to stay in office, President Joe Biden refuses to step down. In terms of proving he is too diminished to run, Cockburn is not sure what more evidence the Democratic Party needs. Biden mumbled through his Complex news interview with Speedy Morman on Friday. A few people in the comments on the interview said they had to turn on subtitles to understand him. Mischief, mayhem and Washington gossip from The Spectator’s intrepid beat reporter.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Tim Stanley |Leyla Sanai |Yascha Mounk |extortionBy Ella Johnson
I’m meant to maintain some air of objectivity at Trump’s selection of J.D. Vance for vice president, but I can’t be bothered. It’s just excellent. By appointing him, Trump guarantees that the Republican Party will never go back to being neocon warmongers run by Wall Street. To channel Kamala Harris, I believe Vance shows us what the Republican Party could be, unburdened by what it has been.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Tim Stanley |Leyla Sanai |Yascha Mounk |extortionBy Ella Johnson
Donald Trump has chosen J.D. Vance as his US vice-presidential running mate — but the author of Hillbilly Elegy has some, erm, interesting views on the UK. At a conference last week, Vance said that the UK could become “the first truly Islamist country that will get a nuclear weapon” after Labour’s landslide election victory. He told an audience at the National Conservatism event: I have to beat up on the UK — just one additional thing. I was talking with a friend recently.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Cosmo Landesman |Elisenne Stoller |Tim Stanley |Leyla Sanai
When my girlfriend suggested we go away to a tantric retreat for the weekend in the English countryside, I couldn’t believe my luck — and neither could my male friends. Suddenly I was no longer the guy with the weird-wokey-woman, but the luckiest man alive. And all because of that one little word: tantric. Say it and people instantly think: Sting and sex marathons. Strange esoteric erotic practices that produce cosmic orgasms.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Carson Becker |Jawad Iqbal |Tim Stanley
Donald Tusk’s return to power in Poland’s autumn election was interpreted by many as the victory of centrism over populism. The rogue right-wing Law and Justice Party (PiS) had been cast out and decency prevailed once more: this was, at least, the narrative presented to the world’s media. In Warsaw, things looked very different. On the campaign trail Tusk repeatedly promised to “depoliticize” the state-owned media and restore the rule of law.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Jawad Iqbal |Tim Stanley |Charles Lipson
Cockburn wondered last week what would happen to anti-MAGA voters after their chosen candidates dropped out of the race. Would they be able to return to the Trump fold? Though Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis have reignited their months-long feud after the Florida governor dropped out Sunday, it’s last woman standing Nikki Haley who has drawn the bulk of Trump’s ire since.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Jawad Iqbal |Tim Stanley |Charles Lipson |Freddy Gray
Saudi Arabia, an Islamic nation where drinking alcohol is strictly forbidden, is to get its first official liquor store. There’s just one catch: only foreign diplomats will be able to buy booze there. The store in the capital Riyadh’s Diplomatic Quarter will remain off-limits to Muslims and, needless to say, ordinary Saudis. For a handful of lucky diplomats, the shop’s opening will spell an end to having to import alcohol via a diplomatic pouch or sealed official package.
