The Spectator

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To lead or not to lead

The Spectator

CONTRIBUTORS

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

How Kemi’s turning the tide

THE SPECTATOR’S NOTES

Keir and loathing • Where it all went wrong for Starmer

Rich pickings • Labour’s love of freebies extends far beyond Mandelson

Fee and easy • The Saïd Business School is a scam

A bit of a blind spot

Post-mortem • How Jeff Bezos destroyed the Washington Post

ROYAL NOTEBOOK

Does anyone escape the Devil’s Wheel?

Jelly babies • Why are adults buying so many children’s toys?

Tax reform

Tell it to the Marines • Al Carns may be admirable, but we should resist military rule

The stakeholder class needs blowing up

Who doesn’t want a better life?

LETTERS

Japan’s female leader is a bright beacon, but do her sums add up?

BOOKS & ARTS

Succession crisis • Lynn Barber on the Murdoch family at war

Survival of the fittest?

The missionaries’ position

The Cherry Orchard

Out of the depths

Land of the setting sun

Cuckoo in the nest

Dear stranger

Flipping brilliant

Landscapes, Ukraine

God forbid • Damian Thompson is appalled by the new biopic of Ann Lee, leading founder of the Shakers

The Damned: Not Like Everybody Else

Peak period

Verse and worse

Bringing the house down

Yorkshire mores

Back to basics

His dark materials

Hairpieces

Still life

Real life

Wild life

SPECTATOR WINE

Puzzling it out

Love is…

2739: Off Drive

When did gyms become so unfriendly?

The Battle for Britain

The real cost of the bureaucratic mindset

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Sweetness and lightness

Myself