Fraser Nelson
Editor of The Spectator, columnist for @Telegraph. Also advisory board member of Centre for Social Justice and the Social Mobility Foundation.
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The appalling vanity of Western feminists who think Margaret Atwood writes about them
Imagine a country where women have no jobs, no rights and are valued only for reproductive success. Imagine a country where girls aren’t taught to read in case they get ideas. Imagine those women and…
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“How can it be that western feminists read The Handmaid’s Tale without looking at a woman in a burka walking down the street and thinking: ‘Hang on, that’s what those bastards do to girls in Gilead?’” Allison Pearson in The Spectator
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We are facing the biggest test of British democracy since 1939
It is almost 11 years to the minute since we reached the eye of the banking-crisis storm. And even though I was right in the middle of it, reporting on it day and night, I feel much more anxious today…
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Brexit has exposed a crisis of British democracy that might prove to be a bigger crisis than the crash of 2008, says Robert Peston
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The French city zones where police rarely escape unscathed
In December 2015, Donald Trump claimed parts of the French capital were no-go zones for the police. ‘Paris is no longer the same city it was,’ said the then-Republican presidential hopeful. ‘They have…
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Swedes have encountered this phenomenon: areas where police, even ambulance staff are attacked if deployed. France now coming to terms with the same thing
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Forgiving the Tory rebels is a dangerous move for Boris
When is a government not a government?
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If Boris wins a 20-seat majority then finds he has 21 anti-Brexit rebels willing to vote with Corbyn, it’s not a majority. So why let the rebels back in to the party now? My Telegraph column
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For the first time since 1171, Ireland has more power than England
Watching Boris Johnson in Dublin, where he came to ask Taoiseach Leo Varadkar to get him out of a hole, I am struck again by how disorienting Brexit has been. Everything we are used to in Anglo-Irish…
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Great to have Fintan O’Toole in The Spectator - here’s his Dublin notebook, from the new issue out today.
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Full text: Operation Yellowhammer
On Wednesday evening, the government was forced to publish details of ‘Operation Yellowhammer’, the government project which is preparing the UK for a no-deal Brexit. Below is the full text of the…
Labour will not endorse Remain in a general election
Very important breaking news. Which is that trade unions, in their TULO meeting with Jeremy Corbyn, have tonight endorsed the Labour leader’s position that in a general election Labour should campaign…
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Labour has decided not to endorse Remain in a second referendum: Robert Peston has the latest from tonight’s meeting
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Amber Rudd resigns - who's next?
An Audioboom post by Coffee House Shots
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Podcast: James Forsyth says he’s picking up rumours of another imminent Cabinet resignation
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Boris's agenda isn't 'extreme' or 'hard-Right' – and voters know it
Deliver, Unite, Defeat, Energise:
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The more Boris is denounced as an extremist for making basic points that most people agree with, the more it helps him. My @telegraph column about the battle for public opinion
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The elegance and humour of Neville Cardus
As a fully paid-up, old-school cricket tragic, I astound myself that I have read almost no Neville Cardus. How can that be? He was, in his lifetime, the doyen of cricket writers, mainly because he…
Parliament wants to destroy the UK’s negotiating position
For onlookers it is astonishing to see the British establishment, commentators and a majority of MPs try to scuttle the negotiating position of their own country in its most important negotiations in…
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Parliament has not only “publicly dictated its country’s negotiating position, but sought to make it non-existent” – former Icelandic prime minister David Gunnlaugsson
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Rory Stewart: Am I still a Conservative?
My parents gave me a subscription to The Spectator in 1984, when I was 11. When I was 12, I wrote a letter to the editor, criticising the progressive views of the Bishop of Durham, and Charles Moore —…
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In his diary for today’s Spectator, Rory Stewart remember his first-ever published piece for the magazine. Aged 11. spectator.co.uk/2019/09/rory-s… (unearthed by Prof David Butterfield) pic.twitter.com/I45j7Bokq7
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Boris Johnson denied election request – but snap poll remains likely
Boris Johnson has lost his third government vote – and his first bid for an early election. MPs voted against his call for an early election under the Fixed Term Parliaments Act, with Johnson failing…
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Boris Johnson denied election request – but snap election remains likely says @KatyBalls
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There’s nothing wrong with Rees-Mogg lying down in the Commons
In the debate on Tuesday, the standard of speaking was high. As well as Jacob Rees-Mogg, Ken Clarke, Anna Soubry, Nick Boles, Liam Fox and David Cameron’s replacement in Witney, Robert Courts, were…
Boris’s no-deal immigration plan
Tomorrow the government will say what will happen to free movement in the event of a no-deal Brexit. I understand that free movement will be replaced by a three-year temporary Leave to Remain Scheme…
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Why no one ever moves back to London
In last week’s Spectator, Martin Vander Weyer replied to a couple with a baby who had sought his advice on accepting a low offer for their cramped London flat to buy a house in commuterland. Their…
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If London is such a great city why does no one ever want to move back there, Ask’s Rory Sutherland
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Tory MPs who vote for the extension legislation will be barred from standing for the party at the next election
Parliament returns on Tuesday and it is expected that anti no-deal MPs will–with John Bercow’s help–quickly seize control of the order paper. They will then try and rush through a bill designed to…
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Boris tells Tory MPs: defy me in the Brexit vote and you’ll be deselected by the next election. Scoop from James Forsyth
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Today’s BBC news leading with the story James Forsyth broke on Saturday: Boris telling rebels that he’ll fire them if they defy him on this week’s Brexit vote
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Parliament had failed on Brexit long before this prorogation | Vernon Bogdanor
MPs had three years to come up with an alternative to no deal – and they failed, says Vernon Bogdanor, professor of government at King’s College London
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Vernon Bognador: The record of this parliament recalls Churchill’s condemnation of 1930s parliaments: "adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent”. Parliament has shown itself not to be the solution to Brexit but the problem.
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Did Christianity make the western mind — or was it the other way round?
Nobody can accuse Tom Holland of shying away from big subjects. Dominion is nothing less than a history of Christianity with an underlying theme. The subtitle says it all. It is dedicated to the idea…
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Did Christianity make the western mind — or was it the other way round, asks Jonathan Sumption
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Battle begins
What makes Boris Johnson an improvement on Theresa May? Those of us who cheered him on into 10 Downing Street have a long list. He backed Brexit, so would stand a far greater chance of getting it…
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Declaring that free movement will end on 31 Oct, and giving no indication of what will replace it, has plunged millions of EU nationals living here into uncertainty (esp the 2m whom Home Office have not yet documented). Spectator cover story
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Here’s Spectator cover story: on how Boris needs to keep his promise to the EU nationals who were told that Brexit would not change their status
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