Galleys
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‘Just think — this sort of work used to be the exclusive preserve of men!’
The Spectator
Wednesday
Letters | 3 October 2012
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On Israel and Iran Sir: Your leading article (‘Israel Alone’, 29 September) implies that there is consensus among Israelis that Iran must be attacked. This is far from the case. There is vigorous internal debate, with opposition MPs, a judge, and senior military and intelligence officials publicly denouncing Netanyahu’s calls for a strike. Padraic Rohan
Portrait of the week | 3 October 2012
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Home In a well-received 65-minute speech without notes to the party conference, Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, presented himself as a human being and concluded: ‘This is who I am. This is what I believe. This is my faith.’ Mr Miliband presented Labour as a One Nation party. He also said that if banks do
The Right Revd
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It is a good job that the Crown Nominations Commission chooses its two favoured candidates for Archbishop of Canterbury in secret and without the pageantry involved when the cardinals choose a new Pope. Otherwise, there would be some extremely unhappy reporters stationed on a pavement somewhere, waiting in exasperation for a puff of white smoke.
Books and Arts – 3 October 2012
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Jeremy Hunt: no promises on the NHS ringfence
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In this week’s Spectator James Forsyth interviews new Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt about how he will continue Andrew Lansley’s legacy on NHS reform. He says his ‘burning mission’ is to ‘demonstrate that we have as much to offer the NHS as Labour ever did’. But while Hunt is keen to praise the work of his
Shelf Life: Roger Moore
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A few surprising revelations from this week’s esteemed Shelf Lifer, as Roger Moore tells us which literary character he’d sleep with, what he doesn’t like doing in his spare time and who would be his author of choice during a year’s solitary confinement. His new book, Bond on Bond: The Ultimate Book on 50 Years of
Thursday
Portrait
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Portrait of the week
Chicken
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‘It’s an Arab Spring chicken.’
Countryside
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Countryside
Poor
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‘I have to work to be this poor.’
Farage
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‘Farage? That’s French, isn’t it?’
Wifi
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‘I now pronounce you man and Wi-Fi.’
Polling
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Polling
Conferences
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‘If any party really cared about what the people want, they would stop these being on all day!’
Discipline
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‘Gosh, that is a very old-fashioned form of discipline.’
Iphone
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‘Hi. According to iPhone Maps, I’m on the train.’
Doge
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One man and his Doge.
Charmer
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‘You’ve got reptile dysfunction.’
Armchair
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‘The Money Podcast: How to Get Rich from your Armchair! Step one: sell the armchair.’
