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PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

Labour’s cliff edge

THE SPECTATOR’S NOTES

The torrent • Is the government prepared for the changes AI is about to wreak?

The Private of the Bluffs

Grid lock • The glaring flaw in Keir Starmer’s AI plans

I was right about Mandy

Red-tape state • AI will bring down the lanyard class

The British should have their holy places

Scandal sheet • The indelible stain of the Epstein emails

BAROMETER

Empty shell • Our armed forces are hollow — and our enemies know it

Putin’s secret weapon • Can Russia’s shadow fleet be stopped?

Roman censorship

Spin doctors • The rise of the patronising medic

The art of decluttering

‘I want to stop the Antichrist’ • Can Peter Thiel succeed?

Fat chance • The inconvenient truth about polar bears

Religious hypocrisy killed off assisted dying

LETTERS

The role of ABBA in the Ajax fiasco

BOOKS & ARTS

The new Dark Ages • Ian Thomson on a restlessly enquiring family memoir that sounds a warning against authoritarianism

Delusions of grandeur

Filthy lucre

An ark in need of salvation

A complex collaboration

All that glisters

The naked truth

Bring up the bodies • Robin Simon on the parallels between the worlds of Canova and Donald Trump

A pocket of the past • Adam Scovell laments the demise of London’s junk shops

Taylor made

The first lady vanishes

East Enders

Directors’ cut

Scouse style

Gospel truth

Teddy bears

Best life

Real life

The turf

Cheese and onion pasties

Tata Steel Masters

Veg out

2738: First-rate third-rate

It’s not all wrong ’uns in the Epstein files

The Battle for Britain

Don’t assume the worst of Wales

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Dream palace

Bitch