The Spectator

The Spectator is Britain’s oldest and most influential magazine, with incisive political and economic analysis, unrivalled books and arts reviews, and unmissable lifestyle writing, plus the funniest cartoons. It’s more cocktail party than political party, and we’d love it if you joined us.

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The Spectator

CONTRIBUTORS

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

How Burnham got burned

THE SPECTATOR’S NOTES

The guilty men • Meet the ideologues undermining Britain’s national interest

What’s your hurry?

Meme come true • How an AI-generated goth girl became a nationalist icon

Why won’t the BBC use the word ‘Jews’?

‘There’s an awful lot more bile now’ • Jonathan Lynn on politics, cancel culture and staging a sequel to Yes Minister

Wake-up call • We should all regret the loss of the landline

The censors are winning

In the doghouse • Welcome to XL bully death row

Swan song • Banning Russian art only weakens Ukraine

Gateway glug • Let children experience alcohol

BAROMETER

The creeping tentacles of wealth taxes

Athenian scruples

Shadow game • The perils of writing a modern spy novel

LETTERS

Why Starmer should have taken the Night Manager to Beijing

BOOKS & ARTS

Growing up with the Mafia • Ian Thomson on the Sicilian writer who turned detective fiction on its head

There’s the rub

Flattening forces

Counter Culture

A joyous philosophical romp

Love and betrayal

Macabre vignettes

The war in the shadows

Cowboy politics in Paris

Bound for the gallows

Desperate times, desperate measures

Sex and the city

Iberia: RLPO/Hindoyan

Death metal

Wimps in Whitehall

Succession

Shooting star

The Neapolitan Horowitz

Let there be light

Goodbye to all that

Calpol

Dolce vita

Real life

A tale of two cities

I’ll take Manhattan

2737: 19x24 inches

Can superintelligent AI be regulated?

The Battle for Britain

The stealth philanthropy of buying a Range Rover

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Savoy thrill

Sweet treat