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The book that made me a Tory

Matthew Parris

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The T20 World Championship is cricket at its finest

Roger Alton

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Meet the Donald Trump of ancient Athens

Peter Jones

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Does every car insurer have it in for me?

Melissa Kite

Mayoral candidates Sadiq Khan, Zac Goldsmith and the Greens' Sian Berry at a protest against Heathrow expansion in October (Chris Ratcliffe/Getty)

Revealed: Zac Goldsmith's record of failure

International Rescue Committee Hosts Annual Freedom Award Benefit - Inside

Labour's 'prince across the water' hints at a return to Blighty

Out On The Election Trail With The Respect Party's George Galloway

A London for all! George Galloway to speak at £1400 private members’ club

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With the release of Oculus Rift, cinema will never be the same again

Wooden model of a brewing and baking workshop, Egypt, c.2000 bc, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Ancient Egypt’s obsession with death was in fact a preoccupation with life

Love at first sight on Channel 4's First Dates

First Dates is perfectly formed TV

May Night at the Royal Academy of Music (Photo: Robert Workman)

The greatest British opera after Dido and Grimes? Vaughan Williams’s Riders to the Sea

Leading the party, two brilliant showmen: Kenneth Branagh (Ralph) and Rob Brydon (Brian) in ‘The Painkillers’

Slapstick enthusiasts will love this Branagh and Brydon farce: The Painkillers reviewed

Taron Egerton as Eddie 'the Eagle' Edwards with Hugh Jackman as Bronson Peary

Downton Abbey on skis: Eddie the Eagle reviewed

Mthuthuzeli November and Cira Robinson are exquisite to watch in Arthur Pita’s ‘Cristaux’

A new dance piece in which race definitely matters: Ballet Black’s Triple Bill reviewed

Can radio help Syria? (Photo: Getty)

Could radio save Syria?

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Ray Moore lost his job for telling the truth

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Why I’m uneasy about academies for all

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I managed to miss out on the glory of Cheltenham - financially anyway

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With the release of Oculus Rift, cinema will never be the same again

Alexander Chancellor

A glimpse of an older, kinder Chelsea

The Parish Church of St Luke in Sydney Street, Chelsea, is enormous. Vaguely reminiscent of King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, it

Walking, and praying, in the hills of Provence

While I was in Provence, my hostess and I went out one day for a walk in the hills. We

I knew my reasonably priced car insurance couldn’t last

After a year of affordable car insurance, I knew I had to be in for it when my premium came

Ray Moore lost his job for telling the truth

My old friend and one-time doubles partner Ray Moore has stepped down as chief executive of the Indian Wells Tennis

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The book that made me a Tory (maybe I’ll give it to Osborne)

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Why has the government been so behind the curve on steel?

Captagon pills seized in Damascus in January (Photo: Getty)

‘You even stop thinking of your own family’: meet the Isis fighters addicted to amphetamine

There’s been a Tweet but, worry not, DCI Taggart is on the case

Hillary Clinton during a visit to Tripoli (Photo: Getty)

Hillary Clinton is more responsible for Isis than Donald Trump

The hair-raising truth? Dreadlocks don’t belong to one ‘culture’

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How the Living Wage helps the rich more than the poor

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Spectator competition winners: diary of a superfluous man

Like Iceland and Switzerland, post-Brexit UK could do a trade agreement with China, but do Brexiteers really want to copy these agreements? (Photo: Getty)

Boris and the Brexiteers are talking nonsense about Britain’s trade policies

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Can Islam move away from theocracy?

The Spectator podcast: Eugenics, Tory wars and poetry

Steel Production In North East England

The government would not do more for the steel industry, even if the EU allowed them to

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How is Britain going green? By shutting down industry

Pakistani Christians stage a rally in Lahore on March 28 following the attack (Photo: Getty)

Secularism does little to protect us from Islamic extremism

Why is Gus O’Donnell misleading the public about the EU rules on Brexit?

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The questions nobody wants to ask about Asad Shah’s murder

Asad Shah

The questions nobody wants to ask about Asad Shah’s murder

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Are Boris’s admirers prepared to have their hearts broken?

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British Christians must start to think and act like a minority

Claude the cat, who was put down by the RSPCA (Photo: RSPCA)

Can the RSPCA’s new CEO reform the ailing charity?

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