Adrian Hilton, writing in The Spectator in 2003, defended the Act of Settlement as not " irrational prejudice or blind bigotry " but claimed that it was passed because " the nation had learnt that when a Roman Catholic monarch is upon the throne, religious and civil liberty is lost.

In one of the Wimsey Papers, a series of fictionalised commentaries in the form of mock letters between members of the Wimsey family published in the Spectator, there is a reference to Harriet's difficulty in continuing to write murder mysteries at a time when European dictators were openly committing mass murders with impunity ; this seems to have reflected Sayers ' own wartime feeling.

She is a regular commentator on the Australia business news website Business Spectator.

O ' Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute and is a regular correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, The American Spectator, and The Weekly Standard, and frequent panelist on National Public Radio's game show Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me !.

She wrote several popular comedies, of which Das Testament is the best, and translated The Spectator ( 9 volumes, 1739 – 1743 ), Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock ( 1744 ) and other English and French works.

He is the founder and editor-in-chief of The American Spectator.

A statuette presented in gratitude to The Spectator, of an Aberdare miner, still sits in the editor ’ s office, bearing the inscription: " From the Townsfolk of Aberdare in Grateful Recognition: ' The Greatest of These is Love '".

The Spectator has consistently shown itself a friend of Germany, but it is a friend of freedom first.

The Spectator ’ s current editor is Fraser Nelson, who replaced d ’ Ancona in August 2009.

Like its sister publication The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator is generally Atlanticist and Eurosceptic in outlook, favouring close ties with the United States rather than with the European Union, and supportive of Israel.

The Spectator is one of the few British publications that still ignores or dismisses most examples of popular culture, in the way that ( for example ) The Daily Telegraph did under Bill Deedes, or The Times did under William Haley.

Although there is a permanent staff of writers, The Spectator has always had room for a wide array of contributors.

As in most British periodicals, the cryptic in the Spectator is numbered: in the Spectators case, a puzzle's theme may be related to its specific number ( such as a historic event that occurred in the year corresponding to the four-digit number of the puzzle for that week ).

" In 2002, Hobsbawm was described by right-leaning magazine The Spectator as " arguably our greatest living historian — not only Britain's, but the world's ", while Niall Ferguson wrote: " That Hobsbawm is one of the great historians of his generation is undeniable.

His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend, Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine.

George Neumayr, the executive editor of The American Spectator, a conservative magazine, told the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer that " PBS looks like a liberal monopoly to me, and Bill Moyers is Exhibit A of that very strident left-wing bias ... uses his show as a platform from which to attack conservatives and Republicans.

* March 1-The Spectator is founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.

* October 12-The Universal Spectator and Weekly Journal is founded by Daniel Defoe and Henry Baker.

* April-The Female Spectator, a monthly periodical, is founded by Eliza Haywood.

An account of the first floating of the tubes of the bridge is recorded in The Spectator of 23 June 1849, which was Grove's first appearance in print.

In 2011, following the term's offhand use in a March 26 article appearing in The Spectator (" white-coated Jap bloke "), the Minister of the Japanese Embassy in London protested that " most Japanese people find the word ‘ Jap ’ offensive, irrespective of the circumstances in which it is used.

: Cryptics in the weekly Spectator often have a specific theme, such as a tribute to a public figure who has died recently or a historic event that has its anniversary this week.

He published ( 1721 – 1723 ), in conjunction with Johann Jakob Breitinger and others, Die Discourse der Mahlern, a weekly journal after the model of The Spectator.

In his later years he expressed his views in a weekly journal, The Farmer ’ s Sun, and published in 1904 My Memory of Gladstone, while occasional letters to the Spectator showed that he had lost neither his interest in English politics and social questions nor his remarkable gifts of style.

This visit resulted in the publication in The Spectator of seven weekly letters, collected in book form at the end of 1847 ( see a letter to de Tocqueville in Mrs Grote's reprint of the Seven Letters, 1876 ).

In 1861 he joined Meredith Townsend as joint editor and part proprietor of the Spectator, then a well-known liberal weekly, but it did not pay.

In junior high school, he became a staff writer on The Spectator, the school newspaper, and at age 16, he wrote for the high school yearbook as well as editing a Boy Scout weekly, The Eagle Trail.

Her activities have been well-covered by the British tabloid press, and in the mid to late 1990s, she wrote a weekly column for the Sunday Times and subsequently contributed to The Spectator, The Mail on Sunday, GQ, Eve, Harpers and Queen, Tatler, Instyle and The Observer sporadically.

In London he edited a weekly gazette on the model of Joseph Addison's Spectator, Le Pour et contre, which he continued to produce, with short intervals, until 1740.

After Nicolson's last attempt to enter Parliament, he continued with an extensive social schedule and his programme of writing, which included books, book reviews, and a weekly column for The Spectator.

He has weekly columns in The Times and The Spectator magazine.

The Spectator, Hamilton College's primary news publication, is published weekly.

In 1995 he finally ended his long association with The Spectator, but in 1996 he rejoined The Sunday Telegraph, where he remained a weekly columnist until shortly before his death.

It is the second-oldest surviving weekly journal in Britain after The Spectator ( which was founded in 1828 ).

Neil began his professional writing career with the Spectator, a local free weekly, and began working for The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina as a newsroom copy editor in 1989.

He has also written for various other newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, the German daily Die Welt, the Swiss weekly Weltwoche, The Sunday Telegraph, The Catholic Herald, Freedom Today, the Brussels Journal and The Spectator.

From 1981 to 2009, Johnson wrote a column for the conservative British weekly magazine The Spectator ; initially focusing on media developments, it subsequently acquired the title " And Another Thing ".

The analysis from one of Erickson's " Morning Briefing " emails, just after the November 2009 election, was posted on the website of Human Events, referred to on the website of The American Spectator, and by Rush Limbaugh, and " fueled discussion later that morning at two influential weekly meetings of D. C. conservatives ", according to an article in the Washington Post.

Levin reviewed television for The Manchester Guardian and wrote a weekly political column in The Spectator noted for its irreverence.

The proprietor and editor of the long-established weekly The Spectator, Ian Gilmour, invited Levin to join his staff.

He returned to the UK in 2000 and is currently an associate editor of The Spectator, where he writes a weekly column, and a political columnist for The Sun on Sunday.

Walgett publishes a weekly newspaper called the ' Walgett Spectator '.

Eagle Publications also owned several weekly and specialty publications, including the Connecticut Valley Spectator of Lebanon, New Hampshire, the Message for the Week of Chester, Vermont, the Weekly Flea, and the Argus Champion.

In the mid-70s he contributed a regular quiz to Melvyn Bragg's BBC literary programme Read All About It, and he returned to The Spectator as a weekly contributor ( 1976 – 1981 ), when he also became a lead book-reviewer for The Sunday Telegraph.

James writes a weekly food column for The Sun and also contributes to a number of other British newspapers including The Independent, The Observer, The Times, and The Sunday Times, as well as Q magazine, The Spectator and The Idler.