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Coffee House Shots Live: Are the Tories toast?

  • Tuesday 15 July 2025, 7:00pm
  • Westminster, London
  • £27.50 - £37.50
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Spectator Life

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Meghan Markle’s rosé-tinted reality

From Spectator Life

Rosé, like a lot of wine, is not much good. And yet people love it, for the simple fact that it is pink. This reminds them of all nice things – and especially of warm summer evenings somewhere non-grotty. Like the south of France. Or… the Napa Valley. That is where the new branded rosé

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Naomi Firsht

Why shouldn’t we call children ‘naughty’?

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Peerless

Charles Moore and Sophia Falkner on the purge of the hereditaries

Charles Moore

Peerless: the purge of the hereditaries

The House of Lords is very old, but not quite continuous. In 1649, shortly after the execution of King Charles I, the Cromwellian House of Commons passed an act which said: The Commons of England assembled in parliament, finding by too long experience, that the House of Lords is useless and dangerous to the People

Peerless: the purge of the hereditaries

The House of Lords is very old, but not quite continuous. In 1649, shortly after the execution of King Charles I, the Cromwellian House of Commons passed an act which said: The Commons of England assembled in parliament, finding by too long experience, that the House of Lords is useless and dangerous to the People

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Coffee House Shots Live: Are the Tories toast?

Exclusive to subscribers, watch our latest event Are the Tories toast? live. Spectator editor Michael Gove, is joined by new political editor Tim Shipman and assistant editor Isabel Hardman as they discuss where the Tories go from here. The strange death of Tory England has been predicted before. But never has the ‘natural party of government’ faced a greater challenge to survive. The

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KJ Lamb

‘‘We’ll have a red – but not full-bodied’’

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Nick Newman

‘‘The sight of a politician in trouble always gets me going.’’

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