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With just over 2% of votes still to be counted, Ukraine’s pantomime villain, Viktor Yanukovych, is coasting for victory in the country’s presidential election. Yulia Tymoshenko, the current prime minister

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France’s most debonair philosopher, the silver fox himself, Bernard-Henri Levy, or BHL to the rive-gauche cognoscenti, has demolished Immanuel Kant in his most recent book. The great German rationalist was

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From Sunday's interview on Fox:

WALLACE: Why wouldn't you run for president?

PALIN: I would. I would if I believe that that is the right

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For those unfamiliar with Martin Amis’s short story, ‘What Happened to Me on My Holiday’, written for The New Yorker in 1997, it was a purist exercise in autobiographical fiction;

Game without frontiers

Gosh, Clint Eastwood will keep thinking of new ways to impress us, the cheeky little monkey. First it was the Dirty Harry and the spaghetti western characters and then he

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Reindeer is a staple food for the Samí, the indigenous people of Lapland. The meat tastes deliciously, distinctively

Spectator Debate: We Must Quit Afghanistan Now

Britain is sending another 500 troops to Afghanistan. The United States is preparing to surge, deploying 30,000 more troops to the country. But are we fighting an unwinnable war? The Spectator debates whether the best thing we can do in Afghanistan is leave.
Tusday 9 February 2010, at the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 between 6.45pm and 8.30pm.

Cameron and Osborne must listen to their backbenchers — or face revolt

When David Cameron and George Osborne move between their suite of offices at the eastern end of the parliamentary estate and the Commons chamber they do so with a pomp