‘If one soldier stays behind, we will continue our jihad’
By Paul Wood
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Having a bad memory is going to be absolutely crucial in the Harris-Biden era
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I have a lot to learn from my experiment in skating, beyond just spins and jumps
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One of the bartenders put her head in her hands and started crying
By Amber Duke
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Politicians and the media have done their best to downplay the post-2015 wave of harassment and assaults
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My coping mechanism has been the same for decades: laughter, cynicism and mocking irreverence
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Control, halt, delete
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Just two years from now, the only surviving relic of Trump’s policy agenda may be his 2017 tax cut
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Has the right gone wrong? Or was Trump its last chance? A debate between two Spectator writers
By Matt Labash and Chris Buskirk
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‘The character trait that typically accompanies fame is extreme narcissism’
By They/Them
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Books + Arts
Where there’s pop, there’s hype — and there’s nothing wrong with that
By Luke Haines
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Franz Schmidt spent his career trying to escape the suburbs of central European music
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As he gets older, Barenboim has become more and more keen on recording Beethoven sonatas in front of audiences
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Remain unmoved to the songs on Lifeline and you’re made of much sterner stuff
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The storyline is Jane Austen with all the plot and nuance and character sophistication removed
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How an American outsider wrote the history of our future
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Life
The true scientist ‘believes the science’ only provisionally
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For sheer gale-force-10 sexual power, I must mention Christine, a hardworking local waitress in her early thirties
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If the stars of the generation then passing burned less brightly in the firmament, well, then it was up to me to illuminate them
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They cause much less mayhem than the cyclists who have driven them away
By Melissa Kite
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An airplane crashing into your house would be fortuitous, but not, from most points of view, fortunate
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Farmed minks live in battery cages, tightly confined
By Simon Barnes
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Food and Drink
They spend their days in prayer, manual labor and sacred study
By Jane Stannus
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