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Dear Mary: How do you decipher modern RSVPs?

The Spectator 22 May 2025
Q. I was caught off guard last week by a busybody mother at my son’s boarding school asking us to join them for their sports day picnic ... My son doesn’t even like their son ... A ... Greggs’ security crackdown is a sign of broken Britain. Geoff Hill ... Q ... A ... .
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Reform and the problem with the Overton window

The Spectator 22 May 2025
The Greens are not that far behind the Tories, either, on 10 per cent ... Good ... The Prime Minister knew what he was doing ... Most popular. Brendan O’Neill ... Alexander Larman. Greggs’ security crackdown is a sign of broken Britain. Geoff Hill ... .
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Cinema has reached a nadir in the new Mission: Impossible

The Spectator 22 May 2025
You have to time your arrival at cinemas carefully if you want to avoid the high-volume, rapid-fire edits of trailers for upcoming mind-rot. That’s conceptually impossible with Mission ... Greggs’ security crackdown is a sign of broken Britain. Geoff Hill.
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Labour must learn to love Brexit

The Spectator 22 May 2025
The problem with Keir Starmer’s approach to Brexit is that it fundamentally misunderstands the country ... It’s globalisation that voters are fed up with. Most popular. Brendan O’Neill ... Greggs’ security crackdown is a sign of broken Britain. Geoff Hill ... .
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The forgotten story of British opera

The Spectator 22 May 2025
British opera was born with Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, and then vanished for two-and-a-half centuries, apparently ... It’s a rare and lovely thing ... Most popular. Brendan O’Neill ... Greggs’ security crackdown is a sign of broken Britain. Geoff Hill ... .
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The BBC’s problems go far beyond Gary Lineker

The Spectator 22 May 2025
As one might expect from a 103-year-old organisation, the BBC has a very high opinion of itself. Outside Broadcasting House stands a statue of George Orwell ... Most popular ... Greggs’ security crackdown is a sign of broken Britain. Geoff Hill ... .
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Magnificent: The Deep Blue Sea, at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, reviewed

The Spectator 22 May 2025
Richard Bean appears to be Hampstead Theatre’s in-house dramatist, and his new effort, House of Games, is based on a 1987 movie directed by David Mamet ... Just like that ... Most popular ... Greggs’ security crackdown is a sign of broken Britain. Geoff Hill ... .
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If you are of a certain age, you’ll really enjoy Tina Fey's The Four Seasons

The Spectator 22 May 2025
This would be a mistake though because, at least if you are of a certain age, you’re really going to enjoy it ... Most popular. Brendan O’Neill ... Alexander Larman. Greggs’ security crackdown is a sign of broken Britain. Geoff Hill ... .
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The truth about my relationship with Phil Spencer

The Spectator 22 May 2025
I never thought I would read a headline like ‘Kirstie Allsopp’s husband enables upskirting’ ... There used to be a dozen pubs on this street, but they have nearly all gone ... My favourite ... Greggs’ security crackdown is a sign of broken Britain. Geoff Hill ... .
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Architecture has hit a nadir at the Venice Biennale

The Spectator 22 May 2025
Much of Venice’s Giardini this year was as boarded up as a British high street. The Israeli pavilion was empty, apparently awaiting refurbishment ... Most popular. Brendan O’Neill ... Greggs’ security crackdown is a sign of broken Britain. Geoff Hill ... .
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Starmer vs the workers: the real Brexit betrayal

The Spectator 22 May 2025
Keir Starmer looked blank. The shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, seemed confused. Only the old Stalinist Seumas Milne seemed really to understand. It was 2019 ... Brendan O’Neill ... Greggs’ security crackdown is a sign of broken Britain. Geoff Hill ... It was me ... .
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Wes Anderson's latest is as hollow as anything AI could come up with

The Spectator 22 May 2025
AI is coming for everyone’s jobs, but especially mine ... They’re losing money on every column ... But it could be worse. At least I’m not Wes Anderson ... No unity of vision, just hollow form ... Greggs’ security crackdown is a sign of broken Britain. Geoff Hill ... .
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Murderous impulses: The Possession, by Annie Ernaux, reviewed

The Spectator 20 May 2025
‘The first thing I did after waking up was grab his cock – stiff with sleep – and hold still, as if hanging on to a branch.’ ... She is maraboutée, or bewitched ... Most popular ... Greggs’ security crackdown is a sign of broken Britain. Geoff Hill ... .
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The childhood terrors of Judith Hermann

The Spectator 20 May 2025
Now she has produced a memoir of sorts – in parts slyly moving, in others so stony-faced and self-serious as to border on the parodic. Most popular. Brendan O’Neill ... Alexander Larman. Greggs’ security crackdown is a sign of broken Britain. Geoff Hill ... .
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The mystifying cult status of Gertrude Stein

The Spectator 20 May 2025
To most people, the salient qualities of Gertrude Stein are unreadability combined with monumental self-belief ... Of the reading aloud of her works, Harold Acton complained ... Greggs’ security crackdown is a sign of broken Britain. Geoff Hill ... .
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