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In this week’s Spectator | 19 November 2009

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Con Coughlin believes that Barack Obama’s increasing disregard for Britain’s views is no way to treat an ally whose troops have fought side by side with America since September 11. Obama has become our absent ally; he is practising a very special form of disrespect.

It did not strike Matthew Parris, as he set out for a couple of days in Somerset, that he would be lead to Dame Margaret Drabble, to the history of the jigsaw puzzle, and finally to some melancholy reflections on the meaning of life. Religion is like a jigsaw: it makes a picture out of puzzling

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