…here are some of the posts made over the weekend on Spectator.co.uk:
Tim Hedges, in the first ever Sunday Essay, explores the state of Italy today.
Kaz Mochlinski looks beyond the façade in his eyewitness analysis of the Olympic opening ceremony in
Peter Hoskin reveals what Polly Toynbee doesn’t get, and wonders whether Gordon Brown intends to use “Britishness” as a rallying call.
And James Forsyth warns against accepting Russia’s attempts to exert suzerainty over its neighbours.
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