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The martini is making a comeback ✍️ Ameer Kotecha spectator.com/article/the-...

Having got the ball rolling, it would be ironic if it was the more centrist wing of Labour that finished off the job. ✍️ James Heale spectator.com/article/star...

Did European rule in Asia and Africa really make colonised people poorer? ✍️ Tirthankar Roy spectator.com/article/did-...

If they want to continue to win Red Wall seats, Reform UK can forget about some of the policies their top people have dabbled with in the past. ✍️ Ross Clark spectator.com/article/nige...

When it isn’t desecrating houses with cheap, misunderstood versions of what they think children will like, the National Trust is literally wrecking them. ✍️ Harry Mount spectator.com/article/poke...

In the four years since invading Ukraine, the Victory Day parade in Moscow has gone through various iterations that have reflected the Russian army’s performance on the front line in Ukraine. This year was distinctly different. ✍️ Lisa Haseldine spectator.com/article/puti...

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Dr. Frankenstein would understand that it was his duty to put down the hideous creature his foolishness and vanity unleashed on the world. ✍️ Stephen Daisley spectator.com/article/will...

All of this would matter less if Putin were popular. He is not – or at least not as he was. ✍️ Alexander Kolyandr spectator.com/article/what...

What all these framings capture is a sense that an elite class has tried to tell us little people how things should be done. ✍️ Ameer Kotecha spectator.com/article/the-...

For a leadership election to be set in motion, 20 per cent of Labour MPs – 81 people – would have to back a single challenger. Can West do that? ✍️ James Heale spectator.com/article/labo...

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The Spectator

Few questions in economic history generate more heat than asking if European rule in Asia and Africa made colonised peoples poorer

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Bar trends have finally shifted back to the classic martini coinciding with trends that focus on affluence and opulence.

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By inclination, tradition and design, the Labour Party is much less prone to toppling leaders than their Conservative counterparts. There is no equivalent to the 1922, Sir Graham Brady’s grin and the…

Did European rule in Asia and Africa really make colonised people poorer?

The martini is making a comeback

Starmer is shedding support across Labour

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The instincts of Farage, Richard Tice, Danny Kruger and others are far less aligned with the people who are voting for their party.

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Nigel Farage has inherited Boris Johnson’s Red Wall problem

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According to multiple reports, Putin has grown increasingly paranoid in recent months over the possibility of an assassination attempt.

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Some of the greatest combinations of house and landscape on the planet. Now just ace settings for children’s games.

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Putin’s paranoia was plain to see at Moscow’s Victory Day parade

The National Trust’s Pokémon hunt is a new low

They had opposed the creation of a Scottish parliament, predicting that it would become a bulwark of nationalism and undermine the Union.

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That is still less than 1.5 per cent of the 67 trillion rouble household deposit base across Russia's banks, but the pace is rising.

Will Labour ever admit that Scottish devolution was a mistake?

What Putin’s Victory Day says about war-time Russia

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People want a politics grounded in home, not a Prime Minister in it for a leaders’ family photo and a chilled glass of Chasselas.

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The simple truth at the heart of Reform UK’s success

Former minister Catherine West has this afternoon announced that she is prepared to challenge Keir Starmer for the Labour leadership.

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Labour MP: I’ll challenge Starmer for leader