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On today's Coffee House Shots podcast: Tim Shipman and Charles Parton, China adviser at the Council on Geostrategy, join James Heale to discuss the ongoing fallout over the collapse of the Westminster spy case. Tap to listen. buff.ly/wN1jNJp


Scientists have created the beginnings of a baby using not human eggs, but skin cells. Spectator commissioning editor Mary Wakefield, asks: Who will stand up for motherhood? Watch in full youtu.be/3OonBd3bvDA @Freddygray31 @MaryWakefield @holysmoke


The hope that a ceasefire will eventually reduce the bitter enmity between Gazans and Israel seems similarly unrealistic. ✍️ Irwin Stelzer spectator.co.uk/article/can-th…


For all the rhetoric about ‘justice’, a wealth tax is less about fairness and more about theatre. ✍️ Matthew Bowles spectator.co.uk/article/polans…


What really gets people riled about this exhibition is not so much the questions it raises, but its motives and its methods. ✍️ Patrick West spectator.co.uk/article/when-w…


The number of payrolled employees between June and August was 115,000 lower than in the same period last year. ✍️ Ross Clark spectator.co.uk/article/worker…


The Polanski surge has come courtesy of a Corbyn-esque policy blitz. ✍️ Gareth Roberts spectator.co.uk/article/the-tr…


Are British universities fuelling anti-Semitic views among students, and are academics failing to challenge extremist views on campus? Watch in full ► youtu.be/3OonBd3bvDA @Freddygray31 @MaryWakefield @holysmoke


‘I think she would be utterly revolted and enraged to hear that some people – naming no names – are now blaming Nato’ ✍️ Steerpike spectator.co.uk/article/boris-…


People are still scared to blaspheme against Islam. We already live under unofficial blasphemy laws enforced by fear. ✍️ Clarissa Hard spectator.co.uk/article/britai…


The Tories’ current woes certainly appear to constitute their lowest ebb since 1906 or 1846, or even the mid-18th century. ✍️ George Owers spectator.co.uk/article/the-to…


It brings to mind not the beauty of holiness, but a urine-sodden Zone 3 underpass. ✍️ Bijan Omrani spectator.co.uk/article/canter…


Honesty, you may have noticed, rarely flinches. ✍️ Michael Henderson spectator.co.uk/article/the-sc…


If the career diplomats sneered at the ‘real estate men’ entering geopolitics, they may now see: sometimes, it takes builders to rebuild the world. ✍️ Jonathan Sacerdoti spectator.co.uk/article/thank-…


Today would have been Margaret Thatcher's 100th birthday 🎂 Join us on Thursday to discuss Charles Moore's Centenary Edition of her authorised biography, and enjoy a semi-dramatisation of Thatcher's last three days in office. Book your tickets spectator.co.uk/article/speake…

spectator's tweet image. Today would have been Margaret Thatcher's 100th birthday 🎂

Join us on Thursday to discuss Charles Moore's Centenary Edition of her authorised biography, and enjoy a semi-dramatisation of Thatcher's last three days in office. 

Book your tickets spectator.co.uk/article/speake…

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