The Spectator - October 29, 2016

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Blinded with science Too much government policy is based on research that simply hasn’t been tested DONNA LAFRAMBOISE tution nam ...

place. In 1915, Einstein’s theory of relativ- ity undermined Newton’s understanding of the universe. But Einstein said he would ...

lier which somehow enabled them to esti- mate that there were 120,000 families across England and Wales with ‘severe and com- pl ...

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PARTNERS YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW. “Every morning I drive past the Chinooks in the hangars and it makes me feel proud. They ...

MATTHEW PARRIS Why didn’t I celebrate Oscar Wilde’s birthday? Would Peter Tatchell feel comfortable at this reception? No. Does ...

HUGO RIFKIND Free speech and the right not to bake a cake fundamentally, is what this case comes down to. Is there such a thing ...

LETTERS as beech and oak. The eventual result will be a much less diverse population of trees, particularly of deciduous varieti ...

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On the up. How is Britain performing post-Brexit? ...

Atlantic Ocean Floor by Heinrich Beran, National Geographic Magazine, June 1968 Stephen Bayley — p44 Hermione Eyre finds that, f ...

BOOKS & ARTS BOOKS Fierce indignation Dean Swift’s biting satire is as necessary today as it was 300 years ago, according to ...

Portrait of Jonathan Swift by Charles Jervas apart is his writing, and the women here are hardly heroines. The poem ‘A Beauti- f ...

BOOKS & ARTS The great Soviet gameshow Will Nicoll Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Central Television by Christi ...

Before and After Midnight and View were designed to show the unfettered discussions which occurred in the average Soviet apart- ...

BOOKS & ARTS A tale of two prisons Hermione Eyre Mansions of Misery: A Biography of the Marshalsea Debtors’ Prison by Jerry ...

as only Morris can, nostalgia and elegiac glee, and makes one confident, with Johns, that Oxford is ‘surely the best book ever w ...

A race apart Stephen Robinson Bridge Over Blood River: The Afrikaners’ Fight for Survival by Kajsa Norman Hurst, £17.99, pp. 280 ...