‘A Democratic party a little less obsessed with digging around for presidential conspiracies and a little more eager to call out Trump for bad housekeeping might have a better chance of defeating him in 2020.’
The origins of ‘whilst’
It started off by displaying what is called the adverbial genitive
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Detroit’s comeback is a myth
The economy booms, the construction cranes jam the skylines while the homeless set up camp on the sidewalks and bathe in the public fountains
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A bridge too far
I am a very demanding partner and, sometimes, unpleasant competition
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The real reason for college food fights
Scarcely a month passes without a food-related scandal causing uproar on campus
By Toby Young
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Washington in winter
The city is quiescent if you compare it to London during Brexit, or New York or Rome during anything
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What a drag: dress-up used to be fun. Now it is far too serious
Gender-bending as a good time is hardly done anymore. The rules are rigid
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Who likes Mike?
For the Democratic patriciate, a Bloomberg candidacy rests on the idea of a return to normalcy
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Forever in our debt
To be overspending to the extent that Trump is doing is to invite disaster
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Britain is dangerously close to having an overtly anti-American prime minister
What would that mean for the so-called special relationship?
By Ross Clark
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The Ukraine blame game
There was never anything in the great Ukrainian quid pro quo. It was props and stagecraft
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GOP West: could Republicans have an Arizona advantage?
Tolerating illegal immigration might not be the winning issue Democrats have long assumed it to be
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Books + Arts
Christmas crackers: the tragic soul of Natalie Cole
Natalie Cole had an instant pocket pop career. Her family, she said, were like ‘the black Kennedys’; and look how the Kennedys turned out
By Luke Haines
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‘I was a tortured, obviously brilliant child’
James Ellroy talks drugs, God and his father’s penis
By Sam Leith
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Ave, Maria Grinberg
How the Soviets stopped you from hearing her Beethoven piano sonatas
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The Spectator’s Books of the Year 2019
Spectator contributors choose their favorite titles of 2019
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The haunting of Russell Kirk
The founding father of 20th-century American conservatism was also a connoisseur of the supernatural and a bestselling novelist
By James Panero
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Leonardo da Virtual
Mass tourism has overwhelmed our major museums. Could virtual reality be the solution?
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Life
Headlines of the coming year
Trump Tweet Hints At Displeasure With Lawyer ‘Rudy Is A Great Guy But He Is Making Trump Look Evil And Should Stop Going On TV NOW!!!’
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Christmas greatness: a Yuletide sermon
Christmas is under attack. It has to be defended
By Dr Sebastian Gorka, DrG, FBE, CPA
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American English must be the most carelessly spoken and written dialect on Earth
Part of the problem is sheer mental and physical laziness
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White Christmas: the magic of the festive drugs binge
Among partying druggies, the trust that has disappeared from every level of society is fully present
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The joy of spending Christmas alone
I learned it’s frowned upon to say things like Christmas carols make me want to blow my brains out
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Let Utah be Utah
I dig the Mormons and even pull for Brigham Young University’s football team
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Digby Dent on lawn darts in winter
Taking a doughy-handed son of privilege and making him clubbable doesn’t happen by magic
By Digby Dent
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My wild Key West
I have never been anywhere where the sea has such beautiful colors that change so rapidly
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Notes on…bridge
I am a very demanding partner and, sometimes, unpleasant competition
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Michael Wolff is working on ‘nothing’
A surprising number of my contemporaries have children who are stand-up comics
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Franco’s ghost
The generalísimo kept Saint Teresa of Avila’s mummified hand by his bedside
By Ian Thomson
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Food and Drink
Eggs and hard liquor: Spectator writers serve up their favorite literary meals
Our own age has good reason to sigh over the unrepentant enjoyment that mid-20th century America managed so well
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Bowl food: childhood memories have inspired a new craze for cookie dough
Hundreds of customers can be seen snaking around the block, eagerly awaiting tubs and cones of buttery, sugary batter
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For duck’s sake: New York’s foie gras ban is classic political posturing
The ban is about much more than animal rights. It is about punishing the rich. And it has to be, because the animal-rights case has no merit
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Transparent spirit: craft distilling has come to Washington DC big time
Everything at One Eight Distilling is good. The vodka is somehow bearable. The rye is melt-your-face fantastic
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