The Spectator

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Degrees of frustration

The Spectator

CONTRIBUTORS

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

The end of the affair

THE SPECTATOR’S NOTES

Quid pro quo • The troubling closeness of the Treasury and the City

My Cavafy Poem

In bed together • The writers of HBO’s Industry on bankers and politicians

My neurological condition

Bloc parties • A guide to Britain’s new radical right

The perils of idiocracy

Radio active • Our first encounter with aliens is closer than ever

‘Idiots, sycophants and traitors’ • Inside Russia’s rotten army

BAROMETER

Trial by outrage • Ghislaine’s case shows why we must not abandon due process

Aussie rules • Young Brits now aspire to be more Australian

Leader board

The real reason I left Britain

Operation Certain Death • The daring plan to reclaim Chagos

LETTERS

The quango stopping London building new homes

BOOKS & ARTS

The Welsh chancer • Henry Tudor’s claim to the English throne was dangerously tenuous, and securing it came at a heavy cost, both to himself and the country, says David Crane

What the bellhop saw

Woke wars

A Poetic Connection

Close but no cigar

Venice’s dark backwater

Painting like a banshee

Eliminate the negative

Power dressing

To read is to love

Savage beauty • Architect, adventurer, playwright and spy, John Vanbrugh defies taxonomy, says Jonathan Meades

Relative values

Vanity fayre

The man who would be King

Bland ahoy

An inconvenient truth

Don’t Take It For Granted

God’s little artist

Moustaches

Dolce vita

Real life

SPECTATOR WINE

Remembering Jan Timman

Hope stings

2741: Unsurpassable

What’s Starmer’s game with the Lords?

The Battle For Britain

It’s time to give the Welsh their due

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Drink Liquid gods

Both things can be true