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Wednesday, 04 July 2007

To all our American readers
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!
Independence: Who's got it, who hasn't
plus A SONG FOR THE DAY

MARK'S MOVIE VAULT
POTTER GOLD
Where it all began: Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone

IN THE CORNER
WAZIR REVERE SEVERE EMIR NAZIR
From bad to worse in Pakistan - plus "An acceptable level of violence" and five guys named Mo

THE UNITED STATES vs CONRAD BLACK
COUNTDOWN TO THE VERDICT: 12) THE PARK AVENUE APARTMENT
A holiday hit parade of charges

Steyn This Week

TUESDAY	GATED COMMUNITY HAPPY WARRIOR: America in the departure lounge
MONDAY	AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL SONG OF THE WEEK: Purple mountain majesties ...and baloney at Coney
SUNDAY	GETTING SENATOR LOTT'S GOAT STEYN ON SUNDAY: The peasants revolt against the Senate
SATURDAY	THE OTHER BROWN STEYN ON BRITAIN: A revolting appointment from the Prime Minister
FRIDAY	REJOICE, REJOICE! THE HUGH HEWITT SHOW: Mark and Dean Barnett on the Senate bill
THURSDAY	THE BIG WHY STEYN IN CHICAGO: The government says nuts to this lawyer talk

Politics & war

GATED COMMUNITY

HAPPY WARRIOR from National Review I try to keep my distance from the idea that the personal is political. But recently I’ve been flying a lot around America. And sitting idly hour after hour at Gate Q83 watching that ghastly CNN airport channel I find myself struggling to fight off the...

Arts & culture

HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE

The latest Harry Potter movie is just a week away and we're looking back at the series to date with a non-stop Hogwartarama. Here's my take on the very first in the series from The Spectator six years ago: I'm writing this at three in the morning. The nearest movie theatre prepared even to...

Greatest hits

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!

Independence Things have slipped somewhat on the old independence front since I wrote the words below - for the first Glorious Fourth post-9/11. This excerpt is from The Face Of The Tiger: July 4th 2002 To celebrate America’s Independence Day, I celebrated America’s independence – not just from George III but from...

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