The Spectator
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The Spectator is a British magazine, which claims to be the oldest continuously-published magazine in the English language. As a daily publication, it was founded in 1711 by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in England. Each 'paper', or 'number', was approximately 2,500 words long, and the original run consisted of 555 numbers. It was revived in 1714 as a thrice weekly for six months in 1714. It was again revived in 1828 and published weekly. It is currently owned by the Barclay brothers, who also own The Daily Telegraph. Its principal subject area is politics, about which it generally ... More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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What the papers won’t say
That leaves the prime minister. He finally woke up to the kind of company he has been keeping on Tuesday when during his Afghanistan visit he declared the Milly Dowler ...via Mark Pegrum (t) -
Diary
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Peak oil gathers steam
() "The easy, cheap oil is over - peak oil is looming," Ghanem said. The reference by an OPEC member to 'peak oil' was very significant. The notion of peak oil is being promoted ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
The al Durah blood libel
() it is clear to anyone looking at this in detail that the whole thing was staged, not least from the devastating evidence here which shows the boy raising his arm and peeping ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
The great global warming swindle
() Since 1997, Western efforts to cut carbon emissions have come to almost naught. US carbon emissions are now 15 per cent higher than they were in 1990 -- the baseline level ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
'I found Saddam's WMD bunkers'
() It's a fair bet that you have never heard of a guy called Dave Gaubatz. It's also a fair bet that you think the hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has found ...Posted by Dale Penn



