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‘Millennials are 50 per cent less likely than boomers to be owners by the time they reach 30 and while in the 1980s it took three years to accumulate enough for a deposit, it now takes 19’ Stephen Daisleyhttps://www.spectator.co.uk/article/boris-johnson-is-the-queen-of-mean- …

"An inchoate primary process is supposed to produce a candidate for Les Républicains, with its distant Gaullist roots. But conspicuously absent from the field are any candidates with credible credentials," writes @lefoudubaronhttps://spectatorworld.com/topic/macron-terrible-nobody-beat-french-election/ …

Lowlights from Australia’s Covid fight: • Facial recognition tracking • Major fines • Masks while driving alone • Curfews • Suspension of Parliamenthttps://www.spectator.co.uk/article/five-more-lowlights-from-australia-s-covid-fight …

Five more lowlights from Australia’s Covid fighthttps://www.spectator.co.uk/article/five-more-lowlights-from-australia-s-covid-fight …

‘Oscar-winner Emerald Fennell has created a heap of trashy, unsympathetic characters.’ Lloyd Evanshttps://www.spectator.co.uk/article/glib-and-snarky-andrew-lloyd-webbers-cinderella-at-gillian-lynne-theatre-reviewed …

'For in the last 30 years ineptitude and complacency has characterised much of British intelligence’s battle against Islamic extremists.' Gavin Mortimerhttps://www.spectator.co.uk/article/are-british-spooks-being-complacent-about-the-next-terror-threat- …

New: Lord Sumption was right to quit the Supreme Court Steven Barretthttps://www.spectator.co.uk/article/lord-sumption-was-right-to-quit-the-supreme-court …

New: Katy Balls has the latest on the reshuffle rumours https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-boris-weaponising-reshuffle-rumours- …

'A YouGov poll last week found 40 per cent of the British public believe animal lives are worth as much as human ones' William Moorehttps://www.spectator.co.uk/article/top-dog-how-animals-captured-politics …

Dear Mary: How do we get our friends to pay for the carpet they ruined?https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/dear-mary-how-do-we-get-our-friends-to-pay-for-the-carpet-they-ruined …

'Zemmour’s visit to London will test his mettle. An intellectual first and foremost, he is known to be outside his comfort zone when abroad.' Jonathan Millerhttps://www.spectator.co.uk/article/france-s-provocateur-is-coming-to-london …

'Al Qaeda has now put out a statement celebrating the Taliban victory, and a senior associate of Osama bin Laden, Amin ul-Haq was filmed returning to his home in Nangarhar in the east.' David Loynhttps://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-west-is-being-played-by-the-taliban …

Fascinating from Francis Elliot, comparing the Blair 2002 tax-for-health gambit with what Boris Johnson plans next week:https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-will-boris-johnson-sell-his-social-care-tax-rise- …

Six times Remainers denied an EU army would happen @MrSteerpikehttps://www.spectator.co.uk/article/six-times-remainers-denied-an-eu-army-would-happen …