The Spectator’s new partnership with the debating forum
Civilised debate is the essence of The Spectator: it is what animated ‘the little Committee of Politicks’ that Joseph Addison encountered in the St James’s Coffee-house and described in the magazine in March 1711. Three centuries on, it is the desire for a cheerful rhetorical punch-up, in print or in person, that still excites us most at 22 Old Queen Street.
Rod Liddle, Jeremy Clarke, Deborah Ross, Taki, Fraser Nelson: these are only some of the verbal pugilists who form the ‘little Committee’ in our own happy, cacophonous republic of letters.
So it is with the greatest pleasure that we are launching in this issue The Spectator’s new alliance with that much younger but already glorious organisation Intelligence2, the brainchild of two media entrepreneurs, John Gordon and Jeremy O’Grady.
If you don’t know about it already — and the chances are that you do — Intelligence2 is one of the intellectual phenomena of the age.
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