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To Chelsea to hear Charles Moore lift the lid on his Thatcher biography. While the crowd at the Cadogan Hall loved the anecdotes and insight, it was Moore’s revelation that,… Continue reading
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Tonight: Charles Moore in conversation with Andrew Neil
You know something is going right with the world when Charles Moore’s biography of Margaret Thatcher is Number 1 in the Guardian bookshop. Little wonder: even if you’re no fan… Continue reading
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Mind your language, Mr Rawnsley
The weekend press offered some rave reviews of Charles Moore’s Thatcher biography. Craig Brown, who is not given to hyperbole, compared Moore’s book to a work of art, while the… Continue reading
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How Michael Heseltine won his first showdown with Margaret Thatcher in government
The extracts in the Telegraph of Charles Moore’s biography of Margaret Thatcher have confirmed that this will be one of the most important political books of recent times. One of… Continue reading
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Introducing our first ebook: Margaret Thatcher in The Spectator 1975-1990
No publication understood the Thatcher project better than The Spectator. We backed her for the leadership in 1975 when no other national publication would. We understood her opportunities, foibles and… Continue reading
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Do changes to the Grand National fences really make the race safer?
The strange story that jockeys have been asked to ride more slowly in the Grand National on Saturday has not been explained. The demand to make the fences safer has… Continue reading
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Should the United Kingdom become an independent country?
Last week, Alex Salmond announced the date for the referendum in Scotland, 18 September 2014. The question is phrased to his advantage. ‘Should Scotland become an independent country?’ it asks.… Continue reading
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Where’s the outrage?
There’s normally no shortage of outrage in our politics. In Britain today, we specialise in working ourselves into a bate. This is what makes the lack of outrage at what… Continue reading
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Did Jimmy Savile nonce the entire country?
A very good article indeed by Charles Moore in today’s Torygraph, regarding Operation Yewtree and the astonishing news that Jimmy Savile nonced the entire country. You can read it here. There is a middle way, surely,… Continue reading
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The Conservative renegotiation strategy
In The Spectator this week, Charles Moore argued that David Cameron — despite his oft-stated desire to renegotiate the terms of Britain’s EU membership — doesn’t actually have a European… Continue reading
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Margaret Thatcher and the Tory party’s change on Europe
Charles Moore’s biography of Margaret Thatcher promises to be the most important British political book in decades. Tonight, we got a preview of it when Charles delivered the Centre for… Continue reading
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A question of motivation
Flitting through the opinion pages this morning, there’s one headline that stands out far more than any other. It’s on Charles Moore’s column for the Telegraph, and it reads, ‘Even… Continue reading
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The two types of Tory modernisation — and which one’s on the rise
There have always been two types of Tory modernisers. Both wanted to talk about issues that the party had neglected — public services, the environment and the like. But the… Continue reading
9 CommentsThe sort of influence we can live without
David Cameron’s decision, in the wee hours of Friday morning, to make clear that he would veto the proposed treaty change will have many far-reaching effects. One is that other… Continue reading
29 CommentsThe significance of the Iron Lady
Charles Moore’s essay on the Iron Lady in today’s Telegraph is required reading. Here’s how he starts: ‘The best way to understand why a feature film about Margaret Thatcher might… Continue reading
23 CommentsNow will we learn the truth about Saif’s British ties?
Now that Saif Gaddafi has been captured, the race will be on to interview him from a prison cell and ask what his business was with the various figures of… Continue reading
22 CommentsThoughts for the day
Charles Moore and Matthew Parris, Spectator columnists both, represent two of the distinct philosophical and intellectual tradition that make up the Conservative party these days. Their columns today should give… Continue reading
17 CommentsWhy enshrining the military covenant in law might not be such a good idea
Charles Moore’s column in the Telegraph today makes a very good case against enshrining the military covenant in law. As Charles argues, once the lawyers and the judges get their… Continue reading
16 CommentsExtremism – not just violent extremism – is the problem
Charles Moore has an important piece in the Telegraph today criticising Baroness Warsi’s muddle-headed speech [a speech which interestingly doesn't appear on her page on the party website]. In it,… Continue reading
30 CommentsFrom the archives: Remembering John Gross
As Charles Moore explains in the latest issue of the magazine, the late John Gross achieved the distinction – among many others – of being the "shortest-serving literary editor of… Continue reading
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