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Down with kissing!
Bring back British salutations
Liz Truss: the Tories can win over the Boohoo generation
Liz Truss sees the Boohoo generation as the future of Conservatism
Our moaning MPs say they’re suffering. What about the rest of us?
Politicians need to get a grip
iPlod: Sajid Javid’s new internet rules will have a chilling effect on free speech
The new internet regulator is an unprecedented threat to free speech
The problem with TV? There’s too much to watch – and it’s all too good
There’s too much addictive stuff on TV
Celebrities, cars and chickens: Inside the Connaught hotel
You may have noticed the Connaught a little more since 2011, when ‘Silence’, the steamy fountain by Japanese ‘architect philosopher’ Tadao…
If there's no deal, there's no Brexit
Both main parties have been hugely damaged by Brexit
Johnny Mercer: the Tories would be wiped out in a snap election
Could Johnny Mercer be the party’s next leader?
Matteo Salvini: the man reinventing populist politics
His methods are daring – and wildly popular
Ireland’s strange decision to join the French commonwealth
The French Commonwealth has an unlikely new member
Fraser Nelson: The biggest myth is that editors have control over their columnists
The power of editors is comically overstated. I’m struck by the number of politicians who imagine that there’s a hierarchy:…
There’s little difference between Question Time and Britain’s Got Talent
Not according to Amanda Holden
Men are playing with fire by having drunken sex
Rape laws are failing men and women
A fanfare for music’s next generation
The Spectator’s Economic Disruptor of the Year Awards 2019, sponsored by Julius Baer, are open for entries at www.spectator.co.uk/disruptor. We’re…
Charity muggers are no longer on the streets — they’re your friends
I am sick of begging letters
Newmarket, where the fastest horses in the world thunder past
Standing on Warren Hill in the morning mist, watching Britain’s finest thoroughbreds thunder past, you realise what makes Newmarket so…
After May: the battle for the soul of the Tories is now on
What next for the Tories – and for Britain?
Fear, loathing and backstabbing – the battle to replace May has begun
Half the cabinet want a shot
As an ex-Brexit minister I can tell you – May’s ‘plan’ was built on sand
The list of Brexit failures is a long one – but the buck stops with No. 10
Victorian lady travellers aren’t feminist role models – they were tyrants
The early women explorers were anything but feminist
In Ukraine’s presidential elections, life is imitating Netflix
Is the plot of Servant of the People about to come true?
Netflix and kill: the creepy obsession with true crime
There’s something creepy about the fascination with true crime
We should take a hard look at our reporting of Trump and Russia
Mueller’s verdict on Trump has stunned the US media
The UK’s great porn firewall experiment
The new age restriction for online porn could have unintended consequences
Rhubarb: the most eccentrically British fruit
The tale of forced Yorkshire rhubarb has the makings of a David Lean film. Frosty Slavic beginnings, wartime devotion, steam…
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