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Toby Daniel Moorsom Young, Baron Young of Acton (born 17 October 1963), is a British social commentator and life peer. He is the founder and director of the Free Speech Union,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> an associate editor of The Spectator,<ref name=Spec/> creator of The Daily Sceptic blog and a former associate editor at Quillette.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

A graduate of the University of Oxford, Young briefly worked for The Times, before co-founding the London magazine Modern Review in 1991. He edited it until financial difficulties led to its demise in 1995. His 2001 memoir, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, details his subsequent employment at Vanity Fair. He then went on to write for The Sun on Sunday, the Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph, and The Spectator. He also served as a judge in seasons five and six of the television show Top Chef.<ref>"What's Cooking with Season 5 of Top Chef?" TV Guide. 12 November 2008. Retrieved 12 November 2008.</ref> A proponent of free schools, Young co-founded the West London Free School and served as director of the New Schools Network.

In 2015 Young wrote an article in advocacy of genetically engineered intelligence, which he described as "progressive eugenics".<ref name=":0"/> In early January 2018, he was briefly a non-executive director on the board of the Office for Students,<ref name="Adams010118">Template:Cite news</ref> an appointment from which he resigned within a few days after Twitter posts described as "misogynistic and homophobic" were uncovered.<ref name=tweets>

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Early lifeEdit

Born in Buckinghamshire, Young was brought up in Highgate, North London, and in South Devon. His mother Sasha (1931–1993), daughter of Raisley Stewart Moorsom, a descendant of Admiral Sir Robert Moorsom, who fought at the Battle of Trafalgar,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Burke's Peerage and Baronetage 1999, vol. 2, p. 3093</ref> was a BBC Radio producer, artist and writer,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and his father was Michael Young (later Lord Young of Dartington), a Labour life peer and sociologist who popularized the word meritocracy.<ref>Michael Young "Down with meritocracy", The Guardian, 29 June 2001. Retrieved 14 February 2010.</ref> Although entitled to use the style The Hon. Toby Young,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> he did not.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Young attended Creighton School (now Fortismere School), Muswell Hill and King Edward VI Community College, Totnes. Young later wrote that he was not popular at school: "My only friend was a black boy called Remi, who explained that the reason he'd taken a shine to me was because he knew what it was like to be a 'nigger'."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He left school at 16, having failed all but one of his O Levels (the pass was a C in English Literature<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>). He then retook his O Levels and went to the Sixth Form of William Ellis School, Highgate, leaving with two Bs and a C at A Level. Having applied to study Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Oxford University, he had been given a conditional offer of three Bs plus an O Level pass in a foreign language from Brasenose College, under an Inner London Education Authority scheme to provide university access to comprehensive pupils. Despite failing to meet that offer, he was awarded a place to study at the college.<ref name=sundaytimes>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=status>Template:Cite news</ref> Young said he was sent an acceptance letter by mistake, as well as a letter of rejection from the admissions tutor Harry Judge. In an article he wrote for The Spectator, he said that his father phoned Judge to clarify the situation – Judge was in a meeting with the PPE tutors at the time, and after some discussion, they decided to offer Young a place owing to a moral obligation the mistaken acceptance created.<ref name=status /><ref name="Wilby" />

Young graduated in 1986 with a first in PPE, and then worked for The Times for six months as a news trainee until he was fired for (according to Young himself) hacking the computer system, impersonating the editor Charles Wilson and circulating information about senior executives' salaries to others around the building.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and studied at Harvard then spent two years at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he carried out research for a PhD which he left without completing.<ref name="Wilby">Template:Cite news</ref>

Journalism, writing and activismEdit

In 1991, Young co-founded and co-edited the Modern Review with Julie Burchill and her then husband Cosmo Landesman. Its motto was "Low culture for highbrows".<ref name="Harris2005">Template:Cite news</ref> "The whole enterprise was driven by one fairly simple idea", Young said in 2005. "And that was that critics had a responsibility to take the best popular culture as seriously as the best high culture".<ref name="Harris2005"/>

Four years later the magazine was close to financial collapse and Young closed it down, angering his principal financial backer Peter York, as well as Burchill and staff writer Charlotte Raven.<ref name="Barber">Template:Cite news</ref> Burchill had tried to replace Young as editor with Raven. "Ultimately the reason we fell out is because our relationship began as a kind of mentor-apprentice, and that was a kind of relationship which Julie was comfortable with. It was only when I succeeded in getting out from under her shadow that our relationship deteriorated", Young said in 2005.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Young moved to New York City shortly afterwards to work for Vanity Fair. In the time he wrote for the magazine he contributed 3,000 words, and was paid $85,000.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> After being sacked by Vanity Fair in 1998, he stayed in New York for two more years, working as a columnist for the New York Press, before returning to the UK in 2000. A memoir of these years, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, was published in 2001.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Following Jack Davenport, Young performed in the West End one-man stage adaptation of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People in 2004. Theatre critic Lyn Gardner gave it a one star review commenting that "The curious thing about this is that Young's day job is as theatre critic of the Spectator. You would think he might have developed some respect for the job that actors do. Clearly not. But then, neither does he appear to have picked up any tips on acting along the way."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> A review in The Stage stated, "Despite Young's previous thespic experience being the only student at Anna Scher’s drama school not to get a part in Grange Hill and having been fired after a week as an extra on the film Another Country, he gives a thoroughly convincing performance as himself…".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The Evening Standard praised his performance.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2005, he co-wrote (with fellow Spectator journalist Lloyd Evans) a sex farce about the David Blunkett/Kimberley Quinn intrigue and the "Sextator" affairs of Boris Johnson and Rod Liddle called Who's the Daddy?<ref>Sarah Lyall "A very British 'documentary farce'", International Herald Tribune, 25 August 2005, reprinting a New York Times article. Retrieved 23 June 2007.</ref><ref name=it-just-how-horrible-is-toby-young>Template:Cite news</ref> It was named as the Best New Comedy at the 2006 Theatregoers' Choice Awards.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The following year A Right Royal Farce, Young and Evans' play about sexual antics of the British royal family was poorly received by the press.<ref name=it-just-how-horrible-is-toby-young/><ref name=guardian-a-right-royal-farce>Template:Cite news</ref> Young said of the play "It was an unqualified disaster".<ref name=it-just-how-horrible-is-toby-young/> It received scathing reviews from the Evening Standard<ref name=it-just-how-horrible-is-toby-young/> and The Guardian.<ref name=guardian-a-right-royal-farce/>

From 2002 to 2007, Young wrote a restaurant column for the Evening Standard and claimed in a PM (BBC Radio 4) club membership discussion (20 March 2024) with Evan Davis that he was previously blackballed from joining the Garrick Club, a decade earlier, for criticising their catering in his column, while working for the Evening Standard. He later authored a restaurant column for The Independent on Sunday. In addition to serving as a judge on Top Chef, Young has competed in the Channel 4 TV series Come Dine with Me, appearing as one of the panel of food critics in the 2008 BBC Two series Eating with the Enemy and served as a judge on Hell's Kitchen.<ref>"Archive of Toby Young's Restaurant Reviews", Evening Standard.</ref>

Young is an associate editor of The Spectator, where he writes a weekly column, the editor of Spectator Life<ref name=Spec>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and a regular contributor to the Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> His Telegraph blog was long-listed for the 2012 George Orwell Prize for blogging.<ref>"Telegraph Blogs: Toby Young", The Orwell Prize.</ref> He was a political columnist for The Sun on Sunday for its first 11 months.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

During the 2015 Labour leadership election, he encouraged readers of the politically conservative Daily Telegraph to join the Labour party and support Jeremy Corbyn, who Young thought was the weakest candidate.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In February 2020, Young co-founded the Free Speech Union.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In November 2021 he was awarded the 2021 Contrarian Prize.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In 2019, Young supported Boris Johnson for leader of the Conservative Party.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2020, he said he was wrong to back him.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Two years later he again backed Johnson as party leader.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>"Prisoners of The Blob: Why most education experts are wrong about nearly everything", Civitas, April 2014. Retrieved 5 April 2014.</ref> In 2023, the New Statesman named Young as the 44th most influential right-wing figure in British politics.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Free schools advocateEdit

Young was a proposer and co-founder of the West London Free School, the first free school to sign a funding agreement with the Education Secretary, and is now a trustee of The West London Free School Academy Trust, the charitable trust that manages the school.<ref>"Toby Young's battle to set up a new school", BBC2, 8 December 2009. Retrieved 18 May 2010.</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The school was founded at Palingswick House, which displaced over 20 voluntary organisations previously located there.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He stood down as CEO of the school in May 2016 after admitting that he did not realise how difficult it was going to be to run.<ref>"Toby Young admits there was more to running a school than he realised", The Independent, 6 May 2016. Retrieved 3 January 2017.</ref> The national press coverage of the school having four headteachers in six years was linked to the higher profile for the school caused by its connection to Young.<ref>"Ex-grammar school principal becomes latest head of West London Free School", TES, 28 December 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2017.</ref> The trust opened a primary school in Hammersmith in 2013, a second primary in Earls Court in 2014 and a third primary in Kensington in 2016.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Young is a follower of the American educationalist E. D. Hirsch and an advocate of a traditional, knowledge-based approach to education.

In 2012, Young wrote an article in The Spectator criticising the emphasis on "inclusion" in state schools, saying that the word "inclusive" was "one of those ghastly, politically correct words that have survived the demise of New Labour. Schools have got to be 'inclusive' these days. That means wheelchair ramps, the complete works of Alice Walker in the school library...".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Young denied that he was attacking the provision of equal access to mainstream schools for people with disabilities, saying he was only referring to the alleged "dumbing down" of the curriculum.<ref name="Doubts cast">Template:Cite news</ref>

In 2015, the London Review of BooksTemplate:'s cover story for its May 7 issue was an article written by British journalist Dawn Foster criticising the free school movement. In a letter to the London Review of Books, Young took issue with Foster's interpretation of free schools data and made claims that were challenged by the author Michael Rosen, journalist Melissa Benn, and education researcher Janet Downs in further letters written to the publication.<ref name=":3">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=":4">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web

}}</ref> Foster responded to Young in the London Review of Books letters refuting Young's criticism and wrote:

Creaming off the children of more affluent parents constitutes social segregation; so too does the existence of religious free schools. Young seems to think he is held in high regard by free school advocates. When I mentioned his name in the course of interviewing a former Department for Education employee for the piece, my interviewee headbutted the restaurant table in exasperation. I have found the sentiment, if not the gesture, to be common among his ideological comrades.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" />

On 29 October 2016, Young was appointed Director of the New Schools Network, a charity founded in 2009 to support groups setting up free schools.<ref>"Toby Young is named director of government-backed free schools charity", "Times Educational Supplement", 29 October 2016 Retrieved 31 October 2016.</ref> He resigned in March 2018.<ref name="Hazell">Template:Cite news</ref>

EugenicsEdit

In 2015, Young wrote an article for the Australian magazine Quadrant entitled "The fall of meritocracy". Under a section titled "Progressive eugenics"<ref name="Belam"/> he discussed developments in genetically engineered intelligence, and proposed that should the technology for selecting embryos for high intelligence become practicable, it could be provided "free of charge to parents on low incomes with below-average IQs.” He argued this "could help to address the problem of flat-lining inter-generational social mobility and serve as a counterweight to the tendency for the meritocratic elite to become a hereditary elite," through a mechanism that should be acceptable to political conservatives and also argued that "This is a kind of eugenics that should appeal to liberals — progressive eugenics."<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Young has maintained that criticism of him as a eugenicist is "based on a deliberate misreading" of the article and that "If 'eugenics' is forced sterilisation, what I was proposing was the opposite — free IVF for the poor."<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Young attended the London Conference on Intelligence at University College London (UCL) in 2017, which was described by the media and a number of politicians as a "secret eugenics conference".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Young said that he attended the conference as a journalist to report about it (which he later did),<ref name="Adams110118"/> in preparation for the "super-respectable" International Society for Intelligence Research conference in Montreal in July 2017 at which he gave a speech, which was later published.<ref name="Rawlinson20180111">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=Breach>Template:Cite news</ref>

Office for StudentsEdit

In January 2018 Young was announced as one of the non-executive members of the board for the new Office for Students (OfS), a body intended to ensure institutions in higher education are accountable.<ref name="Adams010118"/><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The Guardian later revealed that claims by the Department for Education about Young's teaching posts at the University of Cambridge and Harvard were misleading as although Young had taught at the universities, he had not been appointed to an academic post.<ref name="Adams010118"/><ref name="Doubts cast" /> The appointment became the subject of controversy when Twitter posts, described as "misogynistic and homophobic", were uncovered.<ref name=tweets/> He resigned a week later, stating that his appointment had "become a distraction" counteracting the "vital work" of the OfS.<ref name="Rawlinson">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Shortly afterwards he resigned also as a Fulbright Commissioner.<ref name="Fulb">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

An inquiry was launched shortly after Young's resignation by Peter Riddell, the Commissioner for Public Appointments. Riddell said the OfS panel report to ministers about Young "made no mention of Mr Young’s history of controversial comments and use of social media". The disquiet which followed "makes a strong case for more extensive due diligence inquiries".<ref name="Adams110118">Template:Cite news</ref>

COVID-19 pandemicEdit

In March 2020, during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK, Young wrote in The Critic that he "suspect[ed] the Government has overreacted to the coronavirus crisis", expressing worry about the "economic cost".<ref name=tn-coronavirus-fury-toby-youngs-claims-elderly-people>Template:Cite news</ref> In reference to the modelling of a team at Imperial College London led by Neil Ferguson, he wrote: "spending £350 billion to prolong the lives of a few hundred thousand mostly elderly people is an irresponsible use of taxpayer's money."<ref name=tn-coronavirus-fury-toby-youngs-claims-elderly-people/> Peter Jukes wrote that Young's views could be "outright deadly" in a pandemic; Darren McGarvey compared Young's views to austerity.<ref name=tn-coronavirus-fury-toby-youngs-claims-elderly-people/>

Young, who initiated the Lockdown Sceptics newsletter (now retitled The Daily Sceptic),<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> called for stopping the lockdown before 14 April 2020. Saying that he had probably contracted the virus, he wrote that "if the Government does end the lockdown, and it turns out that by the time I require critical care the NHS cannot accommodate me, I won't regret writing this".<ref name=tn-coronavirus-fury-toby-youngs-claims-elderly-people/> He argued his own death would be "acceptable collateral damage".<ref name=tn-coronavirus-fury-toby-youngs-claims-elderly-people/> Young's view contrasted with the scientific recommendations for lockdown policy in the UK.<ref name=":1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In June 2020, he wrote that "the virus has all but disappeared".<ref name=guardian-students-quit-free-speech-campaign-over-role-of-toby-young-founded-group>Template:Cite news</ref> In January 2021, he appeared on Newsnight, and when he was challenged about his comments about the virus, he said: "hands up, I got that wrong" and made arguments against lockdowns.<ref name=guardian-students-quit-free-speech-campaign-over-role-of-toby-young-founded-group/>

On 14 January 2021, the British press regulator IPSO ruled that an article Young had written for The Daily Telegraph in July 2020 was "significantly misleading" and that the newspaper had failed to take care not to publish inaccurate information.<ref name=guardian-daily-telegraph-rebuked-over-toby-youngs-herd-immunity-covid-column>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=bbc-toby-young-telegraph-coronavirus-column-significantly-misleading>Template:Cite news</ref> In the article, Young claimed that common cold coronaviruses gave people immunity against SARS-CoV-2, and that in July 2020 London had almost achieved herd immunity.<ref name=guardian-daily-telegraph-rebuked-over-toby-youngs-herd-immunity-covid-column/><ref name=bbc-toby-young-telegraph-coronavirus-column-significantly-misleading/> Neither claim was supported by scientists at the time.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=guardian-daily-telegraph-rebuked-over-toby-youngs-herd-immunity-covid-column/><ref name=bbc-toby-young-telegraph-coronavirus-column-significantly-misleading/> IPSO ordered the newspaper to publish a correction.<ref name=guardian-daily-telegraph-rebuked-over-toby-youngs-herd-immunity-covid-column/><ref name=bbc-toby-young-telegraph-coronavirus-column-significantly-misleading/> The Telegraph removed the article from its website and Young deleted many of his tweets about the pandemic.<ref name=guardian-daily-telegraph-rebuked-over-toby-youngs-herd-immunity-covid-column/>

The Daily Sceptic has promoted misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.Template:Refn In September 2022, PayPal shut down the accounts of Young, the Free Speech Union and The Daily Sceptic website. The accounts were closed because of breaches of PayPal's acceptable use policy, thought to be because of alleged misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The accounts were restored later that month after extensive criticism of PayPal's actions by MPs.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

House of LordsEdit

In late 2024, Young was nominated for a life peerage by Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the Conservative Party.<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He was created Baron Young of Acton, of Acton in the London Borough of Ealing, on 21 January 2025,<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> and was introduced to the House of Lords on 28 January.<ref>Template:Cite Hansard</ref>

Published worksEdit

In addition to the book How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, Young is the author of The Sound of No Hands Clapping (2006), How to Set Up a Free School (2011) and What Every Parent Needs to Know: How to Help Your Child Get the Most Out of Primary School (2014), which he co-wrote with Miranda Thomas.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Film and televisionEdit

British producer Stephen Woolley and his wife Elizabeth Karlsen produced the film adaptation How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) in conjunction with FilmFour. Young, who co-produced the film, was played by Simon Pegg.<ref>"Simon Pegg is Toby Young in How to Lose Friends adaptation", Empire, 14 August 2006. Retrieved 23 June 2007.</ref> It was released in Britain on 3 October 2008 and reached the number one spot at the box office in its opening week.<ref>"UK Box Office: 3–5 October 2008" Template:Webarchive, BFI. Retrieved 14 February 2010.</ref><ref>"Ricky Gervais's clout at the UK box office is no lie", The Guardian, 6 October 2009. Retrieved 14 February 2010.</ref> The film received mostly negative reviews<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and was a commercial failure, losing over £8 million.<ref name="mojo">Template:Mojo title</ref>

Young co-produced and co-wrote When Boris Met Dave (2009), a drama-documentary for Channel 4 about the relationship between Eton and Oxford University contemporaries Mayor Boris Johnson and Conservative Party Leader PM David Cameron. It was first broadcast on More4 on 7 October 2009 and later shown on Channel 4.<ref>"Last Night's TV", The Times, 8 October 2009. Retrieved 20 May 2010.</ref>

Personal lifeEdit

Before getting married, Young employed a Russian "daily" whom he later described as "a kind of surrogate mother". Young has since complained about the difficulty of finding reliable domestic staff.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 1997, Young met Caroline Bondy while living in New York.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> After they split up, Young gave up drinking, saying he "thought the only way I could persuade her to get back with me would be if I sobered up". He began drinking alcohol again two years later, on their wedding day in July 2001.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> They have four children.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Young has admitted using cocaine at the Groucho Club in central London,<ref name="Milner">Template:Cite news</ref> and also supplying drugs to others. He was subsequently expelled from membership of the club in late 2001 for writing about the cocaine use of friends he had supplied with the drug during a 1997 photo shoot for Vanity Fair.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Such activities are against Club rules.<ref name="Milner"/>

On social mediaEdit

Young has come under criticism for comments he made on Twitter, most of which were deleted upon his appointment to the Board of the Office for Students. Young said that he posted more than 56,000 tweets, of which 8,439 remained as at January 2018.<ref name=tweets/>

These included what an Evening Standard editorial called "an obsession with commenting on the anatomy of women in the public eye".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He referred on Twitter to the cleavage of unnamed female MPs sitting behind Ed Miliband in the Commons in 2011 and 2012. When later challenged by Stella Creasy on Newsnight he said of the second such incident: "It wasn't my proudest moment".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Belam">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Other remarks included slurs described as homophobic, including a claim that George Clooney is "as queer as a coot".<ref name="PinkNews">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

One tweet by Young was in response to a BBC Comic Relief appeal in 2009 for starving Kenyan children.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> During the broadcast, a Twitter user commented that she had "gone through about 5 boxes of kleenex" whilst watching. Toby Young replied: "Me too, I Template:Sic wanked so much in ages".<ref name="Kentish">Template:Cite news</ref> He has expressed regret for his "politically incorrect" tweets.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Young is reported to have edited his own Wikipedia page 282 times over the course of six years.<ref name="Booth">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Scrapbook">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In October 2020, he wrote an article in The Spectator criticising "lazy journalists [for whom] Wikipedia is the only thing they read when 'researching' an article" and stating that "Wikipedia has a strong left-wing bias — which might explain why the page about me reads as if it's been written by Owen Jones."<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

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Articles by Toby Young in The Spectator

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