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Honi soi qui mal y pense
Simon Heffer condemns the spiteful attacks on Mrs Camilla Parker Bowles and says that she will make a perfect Queen for the future King Charles
Al-Qa’eda is a conspiracy of alienated middle-class kids
What are nice kids doing hanging out with a nasty crew like al-Qa’eda?
Russia in the dock
Rachel Polonsky says Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky is a prisoner of conscience, and his show trial stands as an indictment of the country’s criminal justice system
Church of martyrs
Anthony Browne says that more than 300 million Christians are either threatened with violence or legally discriminated against because of their faith
Labour’s stolen votes
Rod Liddle reports on widespread corruption in the system of postal ballots
What it means to be Jewish
The tendency to put everyone into an ethnic slot is impoverishing society
What makes a hero?
Harry Mount asks George MacDonald Fraser whether Flashman is a coward as well as a cad
Out of the ashes
Terror is putting up a good fight in Iraq, says Boris Johnson, but the opening of the new Transitional National Assembly is an indication that the democratic revolution is working
The devils’ advocate
John Laughland meets Ramsey Clark, who is campaigning for the rights of the two most despised men in the world
How I escaped from my hospital hell
The Spectator today launches an occasional series on the state of the National Health Service.
Alice doesn’t live here any more
Damian Thompson on the enchanting world of Alice Thomas Ellis, the former Spectator columnist who died last week
The fear, the squalor …and the hope
The hunt for Saddam and WMD continues. Anarchy rules. But Iraq is now free, and Boris Johnson rejoices in the triumph of liberty
A revolution made for TV
Mary Wakefield talks to hip, fun-loving young people in Beirut and sees how cameras and lip-liner are helping to spread democracy in Lebanon
The Pentagon’s new pin-up boy
Toby Harnden talks to Walid Jumblatt, who has seen the error of his anti-American ways
The price of happiness
Petronella Wyatt talks to Richard Layard, who believes that higher taxation can reduce envy and make us all happier
Paying for Tony’s fat cats
With almost a million new jobs added to the public sector payroll since 1997, Martin Vander Wayer asks if it is now democratically possible to reduce state spending
So you want to stuff a badger
Sam Leith has been taking lessons in taxidermy, and he hasn’t had so much fun in ages
The man who should be Pope
Piers Paul Read looks over the candidates to replace John Paul II, and says that Cardinal Ratzinger has got what it takes
One for oil and oil for one
Michael Meacher says that the fuss over Ukraine was about the geopolitics of oil, and the growing conflict between the US and China
Time to fight back
Douglas Hurd urges politicians to stop giving in to the media, and especially to the culture of brutality, fear and sentimentality epitomised by the Daily Mail
Will Dublin turn on Gerry Adams?
Dean Godson on the widening repercussions of the Sinn Fein/IRA bank robbery
Upwardly mobile
Martin Vander Weyer interviews the former phone chief Sir Christopher Gent, who wants to bring free-market solutions to the public services
Not ill — just naughty
Leo McKinstry on the scandal of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, whereby parents are paid to bring up their children badly
The end of part of England
Boris Johnson goes out with the last legal meeting of the East Sussex and Romney Marsh Foxhounds, and welcomes the coming campaign by honest people to preserve their tradition
Die in Britain, survive in the US
James Bartholomew says American healthcare is an expensive muddle that leaves millions unprotected, and yet it delivers much better results — for everyone — than the NHS
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