Spectating or doing: the challenge for the UK's ruling clique
The most powerful clique in the UK at the moment are linked to the Spectator magazine. They congregate around it and the Telegraph, living in a dense web of networks, friendships, dinner parties, affairs and marriages. Boris Johnson is their most prominent member but most of the Tory leadership of the last decade - Cameron, Osborne, Gove - were part of this group (Theresa May was an exception). So too was Dominic Cummings, whose wife worked for the magazine. Reading the Spec