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The Spectator’s love affair with satire

No one is safe from the scalpel – not even the magazine itself

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David Butterfield
David Butterfield is professor of Latin at Ralston College, senior fellow at the Pharos Foundation, literary editor of the Critic and editor of Antigone.

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