Angus Colwell
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I spent a few days at the Oxford, Cambridge and UCL encampments for Gaza, in this week’s issue of The Spectator.
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Just thinking about the Stalin “pro’s and cons” in my GCSE History textbook
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devastating to hear another of Nick Cave's children has died: the great man on grief here from the incomparable Red Hand Files
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Wes Streeting says there is an increased public appetite to ban smoking, so we should ban it. Evergreen to remind that there was also a public appetite for a permanent 10pm curfew.
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@joelgolby
all players must start the game off the pitch, with the ball in the centre circle. they run on the referee’s whistle
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re. Sedwill report on Foreign Office. This lazy, wrong cliché on the first page, slotted in to add an intellectual veneer to off-the-shelf corpspeak, where ‘modernising’ is treated as an unquestioned good. The meaningless word ‘engage’ appears 13 times.
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some of the best bits from the Rationally Speaking ep with David Shor. A lot of this can be transposed to a UK context.
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A beautiful morning and a beautiful setting. This morning we said goodbye to a wonderful and gentle soul. Rest in peace Harvey ❤️
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Completely thrilled to have started at the
@spectator
full-time this week. Am working on newsletters and online news so do get in touch!
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@MarkDiStef
I feel like if any of current cabinet ministers are going to grow a spine Matt Hancock probably ranks in the bottom 1.
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I wrote about Christopher Hitchens for
@TheSpectator
and what we can learn from his writings on Afghanistan
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isn’t it mad that we live in a country
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Love this point about the royal family. Similar to
@holland_tom
who said sport gives a stage on which the desire for hero worship can be practiced safely.
@Louise_m_perry
Yes exactly. Finding a way to channel that human impulse into a role that's cordoned off from actual power is sensible. Otherwise you're liable to end up with Trump as head of state.
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@BeardedGenius
the Adam Buxton podcasts are very good, but the ones he does with Louis Theroux and Joe Cornish are especially hilarious
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I’ve known Harvey for years, and several of my close friends are v tight with him. Please contact the police if you know / see anything. We are all worried ❤️
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@holland_tom
The doctor that prescribed him this was Dr Addington, whose son succeeded Pitt as PM. Best example of playing the long game in history.
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Pearl Jam brought out John McEnroe as if it was very normal
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I have handed in my last exam, I have finished university. Really does happen on a random Tuesday afternoon
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from 2010, Jeremy Clarke nabs a cigarette off Martin Amis:
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how many copies of er Lolita does the shack-sized WHSmith in Leeds station need?
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The final paragraph of Fukuyama's original End of History essay really is fantastic
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I wrote this about Mark Sedwill, Francis Fukuyama and the Foreign Office establishment’s contempt for history
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I wrote this about what going to the pub might be like in 2030.
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This was an excellent listen on a walk where the snow and rain made it all feel a bit Blade Runner 2049. That and Tom Holland outlining rationally his decision not to take up Assassin's Creed and/or heroin.
Today's episode of
@TheRestHistory
: the history of the future. Sibylline books & science fiction; progress & apocalypse; time's arrow & time's wheel.
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I have finished my dissertation. Thanks to Jeremy Bentham’s dead body for guidance etc
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In an Oxford cafe where every panini is served with nachos. Someone made that decision in 1995 and they have never deviated.
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Someone just tried to steal this little dude – dog owners stay safe, evil people out there 🐾
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'Yes Rishi, it is the highest alcohol percentage for the lowest price in this corner shop'
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Just the most brilliant writing. David Runciman in the LRB on Christopher Hitchens in 2010.
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I went to a day festival and saw Aphex Twin then wrote about it:
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airport bookshops will NOT know what’s hit them!
My new book 'NEXUS' will be published this September. It considers how information networks have made and unmade our world – from the Stone Age, through the canonization of the Bible, Stalinism, Nazism, to the current resurgence of populism and the urgent choices we face as
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A year since my buddy went.
Harley had the deepest eyes and the kindest heart.
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I spoke to the people that make TikToks about politics. They all really hate Rishi Sunak and they all really hate Keir Starmer.
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Femi in the park 👇
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I found (some!) Gen Zers who want to fight for their country:
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me on cheese sandwiches, the importance of:
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I reviewed Alex Kaschuta’s Subversive podcast, as well as
@KnowYrEnemyPod
for this week’s Spectator
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thinkin about this
Spag Bol, properly done. No carrot. Lots of Italian red. Thank you.
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camped outside Defra to save the alpaca bf, storming White City to find the BBC gf
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sensational piece
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As reported in
@spectator
’s lunchtime email last week, Zelensky called officials talking to the press about military tactics ‘irresponsible’.
Today, one of them tells the Guardian all about the strategy.
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I wrote this asking why the Saudis aren’t turning the oil taps on
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In the same way that Harari et al is airport lit, this is off-the-shelf 'inspiring people' — not a hint of any admiration or interest in a historical/public figure whose face isn't famous enough for a t-shirt
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When I spoke to David Runciman of
@TPpodcast_
in late January this year, he said this to me.
I spoke to David Runciman, author, professor of politics and host of
@TPpodcast_
about podcasting, democracy, and the state of our politics in 2020.
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He let dogs live and humans die, held parties in lockdown, denied them, then imposed vaccine passports to distract. What a leader.
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morning, have written a nasty piece about why food halls are terrible
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‘When did the right get so sincere? NatCon is an American import, and it feels like it. The programme uses the language of ‘plenaries’ and ‘keynote addresses’.’
I wrote this on the National Conservatism conference:
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this is great
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come and sit opposite me for a bit
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This is utterly terrifying. We need to wean people off Elf bars with a nicotine substitute like cigarettes.
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You will study maths to 18. You will grow up smoke-free. You will do national service and you will enjoy it.
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Coffee and croissant aesthetically presented in a post-industrial basement cafe? Love it, I tell you.
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I reviewed Tyler Cowen’s podcast for this week’s Spectator:
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the whole problem with the Tory Party is that they revere Thatcherism as dogma rather than a diagnosis of a historical moment
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RIP Jeremy. The best writer in any publication.
Jeremy Clarke, one of the most loved columnists in the history of The Spectator, died this morning at his home in Provence
Fraser Nelson
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I went to Chicago last year to eat lots of food, think about The Bear, stare at some skyscrapers etc.
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Very nice to have these arriving in the office. And very nice too if you all read it.
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I spoke to David Runciman, author, professor of politics and host of
@TPpodcast_
about podcasting, democracy, and the state of our politics in 2020.
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Lots to read in this week's
@spectator
—
@FraserNelson
on the politics of war crime,
@JAHeale
and
@Simmons__
on Sturgeon's secret state,
@katyballs
on the new mood in No. 10 and
@John__Phipps
on Ulysses
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Rest in peace Harvey. Any donations would be amazing. Thank you so much to all who shared the appeals.
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Delighted that
@Nicklezard
has given this collection of Jeremy Clarke’s final years a stonking review. I was very lucky to be involved in the compiling of it (with our features ed Will Moore). As you’ll see when you read the book, that was no chore.
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Spectator writers recall their favourite cigarettes, feat.
@rorysutherland
@Nigel_Farage
@BoozeAndFagz
@TanyaGold1
@edwest
and many more!
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The Nadia Whittome situation is indicative of two misunderstandings of mental health. A) what PTSD even is, but B) this happens in a climate where the medical language of mental health has been casualised and is used in completely banal situations.
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Would love to understand the psychology of “lockdown 4!” people, the type who RT pics of people in the park disapprovingly. High off smarminess, or a denial that we may actually be out of the woods?
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I wrote this about the good, the mad and the bad in the world of AI.
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now convinced, as
@moveincircles
wrote, that most protests are essentially “phatic”
protesting against a lockdown that no longer exists, surreal
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a much-anticipated first byline from a mercurial talent
good piece 👇
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Wrote this about the word ‘rizz’ and why viral words make us dumber
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V nice our Lunchtime Espresso email has been nominated for a
@pressgazette
award for Newsletter of the Year. Thx to ace colleagues
@hannahtomes_
@KateAndrs
@Simmons__
and many others hiding from Twitter! Sign up here.
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Sad to hear about Sven-Göran Eriksson. I worked with him on this piece he did for us at the last World Cup and he was lovely throughout. He called me at half-time of England’s first game and said how wonderfully we were playing. A good man.
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a vital piece
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Delighted this will be seeing the light of day finally. It’s an absolute cracker.
This year’s Christmas Cover:
The mag features: J.K. Rowling, Andrew Sullivan, Marcus Rashford, Peter Hitchens, Joan Collins, Bill Wyman, Ephraim Mirvis, Niall Ferguson, Quentin Letts and an interview with Michael Gove
Get yours here 👉
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congrats to my directing flatmate
@max__raphael
who wrapped on his first project today, wotta leg
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how about a maximum smoking age, so you can chain cigs during your hot years and then you have to stop before it gets grim
A “radical” independent review commissioned by Sajid Javid will say the smoking age should be increased, tobacco companies should be taxed more and vaping encouraged.
But the plans are likely to be blocked by Javid and No10 amid “nanny state” concerns.
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