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From Saturday’s Daily Telegraph “Don’t call me a toff,” said my friend the country vicar at dinner the other night. “I went to a comprehensive in Leeds.” How the other guests beamed. Good for you, Robin! But I nearly spat out my elderflower cordial in surprise. (It’s amazing how much elderflower is forced on you [...]
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When we call a man a terrorist, we bestow a certain status on him. He ceases to be a common criminal, a violent narcissist, a drop-out. He becomes, instead, a man with a cause. Bellicose young men, in all ages and nations, look for ideologies that justify their aggression. Sometimes, they latch on to an [...]
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The BBC has just lost £100 million on pointless new technology. I realise that this won’t sound very much money if you are, say, a typical BBC programme director on upwards of £250,000 a year – but for some of us once you’re losing £100 million here and £100 million there then pretty soon you’re [...]
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Tune into any BBC London programme at the moment and one word dominates. That word is community. Even on a normal day on the capital’s airwaves you will hear it a great deal, but in the aftermath of the Woolwich terror attack its use has gone into overdrive. On the BBC London news last night [...]
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David Cameron is never lacking for advice. Something he probably hasn’t been told is to look to Stanley Baldwin. Ninety years ago, Baldwin became prime minister and, despite a grim financial inheritance and a divided party, won three general elections. Tory splits on Europe and gay marriage are nothing compared to the divisions of Baldwin’s [...]
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David Cameron. Oliver Letwin. Boris and Jo Johnson. Jesse Norman, on the Prime Minister’s new policy board. Ed Llewellyn, the PM’s chief of staff. Rupert Harrison, the Chancellor’s chief economics advisor. Sir George Young, the Chief Whip. Nick Hurd in the Cabinet Office and Hugo Swire in the Foreign Office. Fifty years after the brief [...]
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Kudos to Kyle Bass at Hayman Advisers for warning that the Bank of Japan would lose control of its ¥70 trillion bond buying blitz. The spike in the 10-year yield to 1pc on Thursday was certainly shocking to behold. His point is that the BoJ faces a “rational investor paradox”. The authorities are trying to [...]
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Apparently, quite a lot of those who’ve visited Damien Hirst’s Verity in the Devon seaside town of Ilfracombe have had a bit of difficulty in making sense of the gigantic bronze, sword-wielding, scales-of-justice bearing, pregnant nude with her innards hanging out, though the brighter will work out that it’s supposed to be something to do [...]
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Yesterday the Ministry of Defence released a statement announcing that the soldier killed in Wednesday’s attack in Woolwich was 25-year-old Drummer Lee Rigby of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. It was an important moment. Lee Rigby was no longer the Unknown Soldier. Nor was he merely a discarded body lying in the middle of a [...]
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Murder in Woolwich: was this gruesome beheading the work of serious jihadis or demented young men using Islam as an excuse for their psychotic fantasies? And will we see more incidents like this as religious extremism – and an anti-Muslim backlash – grows in our cities? This week’s Telegram offers expert commentary from Shashank Joshi, [...]
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