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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 5h

Are we Irish an over-sensitive lot?

✍️ Liz Walsh
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No wonder the Irish hate Netflix's House of Guinness

How did the producers of Netflix's new show House of Guinness get the Brits so right and the Irish so wrong?

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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 6h

Padel has taken off for reasons that have nothing to do with sport.

✍️ Arabella Byrne
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Padel is a disgrace

I thought padel might have the same feel of the restrained geometry and simmering tension of the tennis court. It does not.

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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 6h

In The Tortured Poets Department, the mask began to slip as Swift tore into her non-committal ‘forever-boyfriend’.

✍️ Lois McLatchie Miller
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Taylor Swift has shattered feminism's fragile lie

in The Tortured Poets Department (2024), the mask began to slip as Taylor Swift tore into her non-committal 'forever-boyfriend'

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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 7h

My brief career as an ‘Eye in the Sky’ airborne reporter

✍️ Paul Burke
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My brief career as an ‘Eye in the Sky’ airborne reporter

I was watching Slow Horses the other night and as usual, there was some sort of terrorist-related mayhem which had brought London to a standstill. But there was also a little anachronism. Hovering…

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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 8h

When is a drink not a drink?

✍️ Olivia Potts
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When is a drink not a drink?

After smashing open a £37,000 Glenrothes ’51, Olivia Potts asks: if a rare Scotch sits unopened and undrunk, is it even a whisky or just a chattel?

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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 21h

It’s hard to find the words to describe how exhausting these attacks are for Ukrainians, who haven’t had a peaceful night’s sleep since February 2022.

✍️ Svitlana Morenets

Putin's winter campaign begins

Last night, Putin unleashed nearly 500 Shahed drones, decoys and missiles against Ukraine, launched simultaneously at different regions from multiple directions,

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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 21h

If these are the grown ups, then send in the clowns.

✍️ Madeline Grant

When will Labour be honest about its China spy problem?

Yvette Cooper managed to say ‘let me be clear’ twice, in a couple of minutes during her interview with Nick Robinson on the Today Programme

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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 22h

Hamas must release all 20 living hostages within 72 hours. The countdown has begun.

✍️ Jonathan Sacerdoti

The real Gaza deal unfolds in the next 72 hours

The machine is beginning to turn. The ceasefire agreed between Israel and Hamas, brokered with the direct involvement of President Trump, his envoy Steve Witkoff, and adviser Jared Kushner, has now formally...

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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 23h

There’s a touch of the Miss Havisham about this: Knight sitting by candlelight in a house full of tat.

✍️ Julie Burchill

What could be worse than property porn? Well...

I’m of the opinion that an overriding interest in ‘porn’ of any kind (I love the way we use the affectionate diminutive about something which ruins so many lives – like calling him ‘Fred’...

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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 23h

The royal family’s mental health dance.

✍️ Alexander Larman

The royal family’s mental health dance

Whether you consider World Mental Health Day an important and necessary means of drawing attention to often overlooked issues, or a gimmicky fad that somehow manages to overlook the other 364 days a year...

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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 1d

Three PIRA terrorists drove a stolen car from Moneymore, County Londonderry, to Coagh in order to murder a soldier.

✍️ Eliot Wilson

A judge has finally seen sense over the SAS's ambush of three IRA men

Three PIRA terrorists drove a stolen car from Moneymore, County Londonderry, to Coagh in order to murder a part-time soldier

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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 1d

The parole system is still geared towards the needs of offenders, with a pathway to rehabilitation and release for those serving long sentences.

✍️ Danny Shaw

The parole system still prioritises offenders over victims

David Norris, one of the men who murdered the black teenager Stephen Lawrence, had his parole hearing this week, but he was so uncomfortable about being seen that those watching on a videolink only ever...

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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 1d

The Nobel is a joke and has been for some time.

✍️ Freddy Gray

The Nobel snub won't bother Trump

Trump and his team are not fools. The Nobel 'snub' fits perfectly with the narrative MAGA wants to promote

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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 1d

Trump and LBJ both demonstrate how loathsome people can do good things.

✍️ Stephen Pollard

Donald Trump is an awful person – but a brilliant president

US president Donald Trump and LBJ both demonstrate how loathsome people can still do good things

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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 1d

SNP conference to vote on provisional parliament.

✍️ Steerpike

SNP conference to vote on provisional parliament

It’s the SNP’s big weekend out as party members and politicians make the painstaking journey to Aberdeen for the nationalists’ annual conference. Just seven months away from next year’s Scottish...

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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 1d

Why does Trump even want a Nobel Peace Prize?

✍️ Ross Clark

Why does Trump even want a Nobel Peace Prize?

Did anyone seriously think that Donald Trump was going to emerge this morning as winner of the Nobel Peace Prize?

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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 1d

Three bets for the weekend and beyond.

✍️ Penworthy

Three bets for the weekend and beyond

Newmarket trainer Harry Eustace is a master at targeting his best horses at big races. If there were those who did not know it before this year’s Royal Ascot, they certainly knew it afterwards. He landed...

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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 1d

much of the reason those yields remain higher than any other major economy is because of how loose and thin the Chancellor’s fiscal policy has been.

✍️ Michael Simmons

How Rachel Reeves can escape the doom loop

And much of the reason those yields remain higher than any other major economy is because of how loose and thin the Chancellor’s fiscal policy has been.

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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 1d

Polanski initially denied the allegation, claiming that he initially refused to and then belatedly agreed to try it ‘as an experiment’ but insisted it was not normal practice.

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