Matthew Parris Matthew Parris

Another Voice | 11 April 2009

The spirits of Spectator editors past battled within me as I embarked on a criminal act

issue 11 April 2009

What came over me? I’m not a natural lawbreaker and was never a rebel as a youth. I deplore poll-tax rioters, eco-rioters and every lawless protest against supposed injustice, and read with awe of Charles Moore’s defiant stand against the TV licence people, wondering at the desperado our one-time Spectator editor has in later years become.

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