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The Spectator’s Notes | 4 November 2006

‘It’s a milestone round his neck’, I heard a football manager saying on the Today programme.

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Charles Moore
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Charles Moore is The Spectator’s chairman.

He is a former editor of the magazine, as well as the Sunday Telegraph and the Daily Telegraph. He became a non-affiliated peer in July 2020.

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